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CHAPTER X. 



TRIBES VII AND VIII— FESTUCACEjE AND HORDED. 



Festucaceae is of minor importance as it is not well represented 

 in the South India. Only about half a dozen genera occur and 

 most of them on the hills. The spikelets are usually 2- or more- 

 flowered, pedicelled and in panicles, open or contracted. The 

 rachilla is produced beyond the flowering glumes and articulate at 

 the base just above the empty glumes. 



Inflorescence a raceme, spikelets 2- to") 



3-flowered, turbinate ; glumes single- > 40. Pommereulla. 

 awned. J 



Inflorescence paniculate, spikelets fewl 



or many-flowered, glumes many-, 41. Pappophoru n. 



nerved and many-awned. ) 



Inflorescence various, spikelets 2- to | 



many-flowered, flowering glumes I- | 



to 3-nerved entire, empty glumes ^42. Eragrostis. 



shorter than the lowest flowering I 



glume, grain very minute. J 



Hordeae is also a minor tribe and is represented by only one 

 genus in South India. 



The spikelets are one- or more-flowered, sessile, l- or 2-seriate 

 on the rachis, and somewhat sunk in cavities ; the rachilla is jointed 

 at the base and is produced beyond the flowering glumes, glumes 

 awned or not. 



Spikelets I- to 3-flowered, first glume^j 



verv minute or wanting, second as ' n 



long as the hyaline, third spike | 43< uro P etll ' m - 



compressed, solitary. J 



