CXLII. GRAMINED. 457 
pointless, rigid. Flowering glumes oblique and palea rather 
rigid, boat-keeled, pointless, about equal; the palea 2-keeled. 
Stamens 6. Scales 3. Stigmas 3. Grain glabrous.—WNees, 
Lic. p. 463. 
Arborescent grasses, branched at the nodes, with articulated leaves ; 
branches tufted, floriferous at apex.—1 Cape species. 
The Cape species has never been found in flower, and its genus is there- 
fore uncertain. Colonel Munro, in consequence of similarity of foliage, has 
placed the Cape plant in the genus Arundinaria, in which the stamens are 
3 in number, and the spikelets contain several perfect flowers. 
Dr. Harvey’s ms. does not contain a description of the genus Bambusa, in 
. consequence, I suppose, of his considering the species found at the Cape to 
have been undoubtedly introduced. 
SUBTRIBE 8. HoRDEACER. 
85. MONERMA, Beauv. 
Spikelets solitary, half-sunk in hollows of the jointed rachis 
of a simple spike, 1-flowered. Outer glume 1, cartilaginous, 
rib-furrowed. Flowering glume and palea membranous, hya- 
line, pointless ; with mere rudiment of an upper glume—WVees, 
Le. p. 126. 
MW. subulata is a slender, rigid, narrow-leaved grass ; its pale culm end- 
ing in a long, slender, pointed, cylindrical spike, barren in its upper nodes ; 
te are very erect, lying close on the rachis. —Eastern and Western 
istricts. 
86. LOLIUM, Linn. 
Spikelets compressed, many-flowered, distichously-spiked on 
opposite sides of the rachis. Outer glume usually 1, herba- 
ceous, entire-nerved. Flowermg glume herbaceous, convex, 
5-nerved, pointless or dorsally setigerous below the apex; 
palea 2-keeled, with inflexed edges. Grain furrowed, adhering 
to the palea.—Vees, l.c. p. 364. 
L. temulentum (Darnel), a weed of cultivation, occurs in cornfields. 
87. TRITICUM, Linn. 
Spikelets 3- several-flowered, spiked, distichous. Outer 
glumes 2, herbaceous, both placed towards one side, subequal, 
pointless or awned. Flowering glumes convex, 5-nerved, mu- 
cronate or awned ; palea flat, entire or cloven, 2-keeled, with 
inflexed edges. Grain free or adherent, furrowed on one side. 
—WNees, l.c. p. 365. 
Annual or perennial grasses ; wild Wheat.—2 Cape species. 
88. BRACHYPODIUM, Beauv. 
Spikelets many-flowered, semiterete, imbricate, in simple 
racemes, subdistichous, on short pedicels. Outer glumes 
