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fowered. Glumes equnJIitig or longer than the flowers. Glnmelles vsualli/ siirroiindeil 

 at the base with long hairs, memhrano-herhaeeous, as are the glumes, the lower awned, 

 or mniicous, and faeiiig the lou-er glume. Stamens 3 or rarely 2. Stigmas sessile 

 or sub-sessile, protruding from the sides or towards the base of the sjiikelet. Carypsis 

 with a 2)unefifoi m or linear liilarij spot. 



Arfxdo, Linnaus. 



Spilcelets 2 or more flowered, ■witli long silky hairs on the axis and flowering 

 glumes, all pedicellate in a large mueh-branchcd panicle. Glumes thin, keeled, 

 distichous, and distant, 2 outer ones empty, the flowering ones as long or rather 

 longer, pointed or shortly awned, the terminal one small, empty or rudimental. 

 Palem small. Tall reeds. 



A. Madagascaeiensis, Kth. India. S. China. Philippines. 



Phragjiites, Trinius. 



Characters of Arundo, only no silky hairs on the glumes, and the lowest flower 

 is usually male. 



P. (Aefxdo) EoxBUBGHn, Kth. Kamorta. Kar Xicobar (K.). Ceylon. 



A. karlca, Roxb. 

 P. JVepalensis, 'Nees. 



Amphiboxax, JS'ees von Esscnheelc. 



A. Bengalensis, Wees. 

 A. BiFAEiA, Lind. 



Mason gives the following Tcrnacular names for species of Phragmites {Arundo), 

 though observing that the same names are sometimes applied to species of Saceharum 

 also : Phoung. Pyu. Kyu. Lai. A-lo-kyu. 



STiriEJE. 

 Spilcelets all fertile, suh-eglindrie or cotnpressed, in panicles containing one herma- 

 phrodite flower. Glumes suhequal or xmequal, equalling or longer than the flower. 

 Glumelles, tvhen ripe, coriaceous, the lower answering to the lower glume, often convolute, 

 awned at the tip. Awn simple or trifd, rarely muticous. Stamens 3. Stigmas pro- 

 truding lateral/g, towards the base of the spilcelet. Caryopsis xcith a linear hilary spot ; 

 towards its middle or near its top. 



C'h.etaeia. 

 C. UYSTRix, Beauv. India. 



Aeistida, Linnaus. 

 A. sp. (M.) 



AGliOSTIDIE.E. 

 Spilcelets all fertile, more or less laterally compressed in a branched or spiled panicle, 

 wtth a single hermaphrodite flower, rarely accompanied by the pedieelled rudiment of a 

 second npper flower. Glumes subequal or vnequal, usually longer than the flower. 

 Glumelles and glumes between chartaceous and herbaceous, the lower muticous or aristate. 

 Awn usually dorsal and facing the lower glume. Stamens 3, rarely 1 or 2. Stigmas 

 usually sessile, protruding laterally at the base of the spilcelet. 



SroEOBOLUs, P. Browne. 

 Spilcelets small, 1 -flowered, awnless, in a loose spreading, or rarely spike-like 

 panicle. Outer glumes 2, keeled, one or both usually shorter and never longer than the 

 acute flowering glume. Palea nearly as long, usually 2-nerved. Caryopsis free, short, 

 deciduous, the seed separating from the thin pericarp. 



S. sp. {flde Diedrichsen). Nicobars (K.). 



S. diandee, Beauv. Bengal. 



S. Ikdici-s, Br. S. China. 



