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PANICACE^. 



spikelets one at the base of the spike, 1-2-flowered, the upper 

 fertile, the lower neuter, both included in 

 a hard shining bract, having a small open- 

 ing above. Glumes of the staminate sjjike- 

 lets 4, all slender, hyaline, the 2 outer 

 empty, broad, acuminate, the 2 inner in- 

 cluding the hyaline palea and the pistillate 

 flower or the third empty. Lodicules very 

 rarely present, 3. Style very long, slender, 

 parted for half its length, covered with very 

 short hairs. Grain globose or oblong, en- 

 closed by a smooth, hard globose or oblong 

 bract. 



Culms branching, leaf - blades broad. 

 Spikelets often more or less included in the 

 sheaths of the upper leaves, the staminate 

 portion at length deciduous. Species 3 or 4, 

 natives of East India. 



1. C. LACHRTMA L. 1. C. JOB'S TeARS. 



Annual; GO cm. high. Leaf -blades 2 



cm. wide. 



The hard bract covering the lower flowers 

 Fig. 4. — Vvix Lachry- • n r, t ^^ • ■\^^J, ^ 



ma, X 1.5 Portion of ovoid, 8 mm. diam.. bluish white when ripe; 



panicle. (Richardson.) sometimes used for rosaries. 



Common in gardens, scarcely naturalized. 

 Europe. M. A. C. Cult. Nos. 1. 2. 



Native of Southern 



Tribe II.— ANDROPOGONE^. 



Spikelets two (rarely one) at each joint of the rachis, one sessile 

 and one pedicellate (both pedicellate in Trachypogon), often appa- 

 rently three at the terminal joint. Spikelets usually 1-flowered 

 with 3 empty glumes, rarely a floral glume with a staminate flower 

 instead of the third empty glume ; first glume always thicker than 

 the floral glume, the latter often hyaline, usually bearing a bent or 

 twisted awn. Palea usually shorter than its glume, sometimes 0. 



