60 SOUTH INDIAN GRASSES 



3. Eriochloa, H.B. & K. 



These are annuals or perennials. Leaves are flat. The inflo- 

 rescence is a raceme or a panicle. Spikelets are one-flowered, 

 borne unilaterally on the branches, and the base is thickened and 

 jointed on the top of a short pedicel. The spikelet has three 

 glumes. The first and the second glumes are subequal, membran- 

 ous. The third glume is apiculate, hardened in fruit. The 

 lodicules are small and truncate. There are three stamens with 

 linear anthers. Styles are two free, with plumose stigmas. The 

 grain is oblong, free within the hardened glume and its palea. 



