PANICE/E 101 



Chamaeraphis, Br. 



These are glabrous marsh or aquatic grasses. Leaves are linear 

 or lanceolate. The inflorescence is a panicle. The spikelets are 

 one-to two-flowered, subsessile and subsecund on the branches 

 which are produced as awn-like bristles beyond the ultimate 

 spikelet, obscurely jointed and persistent on their obconic short 

 pedicels, narrowly lanceolate and terete. The spikelet consists of 

 four glumes. The first glume is very small, hyaline, suborbicular 

 nerveless and truncate. The second glume is the longest, green, 

 membranous, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate or narrowed into a 

 rigid awn, 7- to II-nerved. The third glume is lanceolate, acute, or 

 aristately acuminate, 7-nerved, paleate, male or neuter, the palea 

 is smaller than the glume and hyaline. The fourth glume is much 

 smaller than the third, stipitate, bisexual or female, oblong or 

 ovate-oblong, acute, flat, thinly coriaceous, nerveless and paleate; 

 the palea is hyaline, as broad as the glume, acute and nerveless. 

 The lodicules are cuneate. Stamens are three. Stigmas are 

 laterally exserted. Grain is oblong, compressed. 



