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38. Dinebra, J acq. 



These are leafy annual grasses. The inflorescence is a narrow 

 pyramidal raceme of slender, spreading or deflexed spikes. 

 Spikelets are small, biseriate and crowded on one side of the spike 

 and not jointed at the base ; rachilla is slender, jointed and pro- 

 duced beyond the flowering glumes and bearing an imperfect 

 glume. There are four to five glumes. The first two glumes are 

 the longest, lanceolate, I-nerved, keeled and awned. The second 

 glume is slightly longer than the first. The third and the fourth 

 glumes are very small, hyaline, broadly ovate, I-nerved. Lodicules 

 are present. Stamens are three and anthers didymous and small. 

 Grain is narrowly ovoid and trigonous. 



