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Materials for a Flora of ihe Malayan Peninsula. 



Spikelets not thickened at b.ase 

 Spikelets thickened at base 



Ghimes 4. I & II separately deciduous 



Glumes IV not appendagcd . . 



Glume IV with 1 or 2 appendages 



Large reed-like grass. Spikelets minute 

 Spikelets involucclled by bristles . . 

 Spikelets awned. 



Glume IV awned. Leaves narrow , . 



Glume I awned. Leaves lanceolate . . 

 Spikelets persistent on their pedicels or de- 

 ciduous with them, 

 Spikelets solitary on a broad flattened, rachis 

 Spikelets in 2 rows, secund, lower one or two 



female upper ones male 



Large dioecious grass with spikelets in 

 large heads . . 



Tribe 11. Okyzeae. Spikelets one flower- 

 ed panicled articulate on the pedicels and 

 deciduous from them. Stamens 6, 



(i III me 2-3. Ill often awned . . 



Glume 1 awnless, membranous . . 



Tribe III. Zoysieae. Spikelets spicate 

 or racemed one-flowered bisexual, articulate on 

 the pedicels and deciduous with them. 

 Spikelets not awned . . 

 Spikelets, glumes I and II awned 



Tribe IV. Phareae. Leaves broad. 

 Spikelets panicled 1 flowered unisexual. 

 Glumes 3. Gl. Ill in female spikelets hardened 

 or inflated in fi'uit 



Tribe V. Maydiae. Spikelets unisexual, 

 in spikes. Male spikes in terminal panicles, 

 or continuous with the spikes. Fruiting spike- 

 lets enclosed in a stony polished white or blue 

 bract 



AXDROrOfiOXEAE. 



Inflorescence spicate racemed or panicled. Spikelets solitary or 

 in pairs, 1 sessile and 1 pedicelled 1 or 2 flowered, the sessile 1 

 bisexual, pedicelled 1 male barren or bisexual, or spikelets in tiirees 

 I sessile bisexual and 2 pedicelled barren or male ones. Glumes I 



1. Paspalum. 



2. Eriochhie. 



3. Isachne. 



4. Panicum. 



5. Ichnanthus. 



6. Thysanolaena. 



7. Setaria. 



8. Axon opus. 



9. Oplismenus. 



10. Stenotaphrujn. 



11. Thuarea. 



12. Spin if ex. 



13. Oryza. 



14. Leersia. 



15. Zoysia. 



16. Perot is. 



17. Leptaspis. 



18. Coix. 



