BAMBUSEA 249 
are usually 2- to 8-flowered, rarely 1-flowered, often in tufts at the 
nodes of the flowering branchlets. Glumes 2, the lower lemmas often 
sterile and gradually passing into the glumes. Blades usually short 
and rather broad and usually articulated with the sheath, and often 
with a short petiole. The stamens are 3 to 6, and the styles 2 or 3. 
The fruit is sometimes a nut or even a berry. 
