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Male flo owering branches numerous, erect, slender. 
Spikelets linear. Capsule very small . 1. R. fastigiatus. 
Male barge poo elongated. Spikelets ovate à 
st from the base 6. R. dimorphus. 
Male s ik xen obl lmost o oid. Ca: sule 2 
lin a rays aaah oe "he Jt à ys - 2. R. megalotheca. 
Szcr. II. Stac hygynia.— Both male and female spikelets several flowered (in some 
species however the females unknown). 
Spikelets (in both sexes ?) small and numerous in a 
dense terminal panicle, 
Spikelets ovoid, very shining, with fine-pointed : 
_ glumes. Tropical species 3. R. tropicus. 
is d Ar globular, dull brown, "obtuse, 
e 4. R. applanatus. 
Spikelets = both s Xes s?) termina ating branches or 
ed uoles o or sessile wong the bran 
scales loose and DE. pr. 
tern iic les. 
purt rigid and glabrous. Spikelets Mcd or 
. & R. monocephalus. 
Bios lindas, glabrous Sp pikelets numerous. 6. R. dimorphus. 
Sh Spera ge acuminate, loué or erect, Western 
Stems | Pie tose-villous, Bheaitung scales loose, 
Spikelets Maior rous - R. confertospicatus, 
Stems glabro s, rigid, under 1 ft. often flexuose. 
Sri solitary à or haw: gaia about 3 lines 
8. R. sphacelatus. 
Spikelets several, ovoid, about 4 lines long. 
lumes with fine points 9. R. deformis. 
Spikelets . ‘several ovate, 2 2 lines long, the 
fem on x genda 0." R. erispatus, 
Butkeléte nom fobs AR. nitens. 
Stems 1 rte small vind eae " Pw pale Spike- 
ets 
me glabrous, ne Ero narrow- : 
ovoid, about 3 lines ong. . 12. R. gracilior. 
Raise E » pti d Scales m 
pixelets narr w, the males about 2 i 
ik „the females 3to 4 4 lines lo ong * 13. R. chaunocoleus. 
Spikelets in both sexes es nearly similar, mostly erec 
one acd pedicellate, on » simple rhachis or in a 
rrupted panic 
Shing se ^ e and tek Eastern species. 
e, tere 
Spikelets $ few, x least 4 lines long. Upper : 
scales x 14. R. australis. 
` Spikelets numerous, 2 to 3} lines long. Sheath- n 
ing scales ck i edie appressed 16. R. gracilis, 
Stems very flat 16. R. complanatus. 
terete, tall, with dense clusters of f fine þar- 
ren paha, Spikelets numerous . 17. R. tetraphyllus. 
es Wi 18. R. larus. 
Male spik "deer lets leis d diee e estern species 
ot Votet 
species, 
e one ilte amd m u 
Wards, alog, dome, d F " er R. lazus. 
