210 THE TRUE GRASSES. 



sterile glume. Lodicules three. Form of the fruit same 

 as in Anagallis. Subarborescent. 



Species one (P. polymorphum Munro), on the Him;i- 

 laya Mountains. 



307. (293) Teinostachyum Munro. Differing from the 

 306 in the fruit only ; spikes in tufts, short, densely 

 flowered, appearing like elongated spikelets and so un- 

 derstood by Munro. Shrubby or arborescent. 



Species three, in East Indies. 



308. (292) Greslania Balansa. Like the precehing, but 

 differing in its styles and fruit. Fruit roundish- oblong, 

 with a thick pericarp which is full of holes. Shrubs 

 2-3 in. high. 



Species three, all in New Caledonia. 



309. (294) Cephalostachyum Munro. Spikelets sub- 

 tended by an enveloping leaf ; rachilla prolonged beyond 

 the fertile flower, bearing rudimentary bracts ; empty 

 glumes 1-2 ; lodicules 2-3 ; style elongated, 2-3-cleft ; 

 ovary and the elongated fruit beaked. Tall shrubs. 

 Spikelets in dense heads, solitary, at the ends of the 

 branches, or in many, remote glomerules ; having the 

 appearance of a hedgehog on account of the bristly 

 projecting subtending leaves of the spikelets. 



Species five, in the East Indies and Madagascar. 



Sub-tribe D. — Melocanneae. 



Palea keelless, resembling the flowering glume. 



310. (295) Schizostachyum Nees. Spikelets one-flow- 

 ered, narrow-lanceolate, in remote fascicles along the 

 branches of the panicle ; rachilla prolonged, the projec- 

 tion bristle-like ; empty glumes 4-6, gradually increas- 

 ing in size, the uppermost one convolute like the flower- 

 ing glume and palea, not keeled, many-nerved ; lodicules 

 2-3, narrow ; stamens free ; style elongated, 2-3-cleft at 

 the point ; fruit a small ovate or globose, wrinkled nut, 

 with a short beak. Tall shrubs with a slightly-branched 

 or simple inflorescence. 



Species seven, in Malayan Archipelago, China, and 

 the South Sea Islands, as far as the Sandwich Islands. 



