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63. (9) Ichnanthus Beauv. {Navicularia Eaddi). Spike- 

 lets ovate or acute, short pedicellate on the branches of 

 the panicle, with one £ and one I flower. Leaves broad- 

 lanceolate to ovate. 



Species twenty, all in tropical America, one of them 

 also in India. 



64. (8 §) Tricholsena Schrad. {Rhynchelytrum Nees, 

 Hochst., Monachyron Pari.). Spikelets in loose panicles, 



Fig. 28. — Panicum miliaceum L. (After Nees, Gen. Germ., I. 19.) 



broad, somewhat laterally compressed, very hairy, es- 

 pecially on the callus of the second empty glume. 

 The latter and the flowering glume of the $ flower often 

 thick-membranaceous ; flowering glume and palea much 

 shorter, chartaceous, shining. 



Species ten, in all parts of Africa : one of them extends 

 to Sicily and western India, one of which is endemic, two 

 in Madagascar. Tr. rosea Nees, with reddish, silky hairs 

 on the spikelets, awns short or wanting, from the Cape 



