514 GRAMINACEAE, [Arundinella. 
all branching from the base. Spikelets twin, one subsessile, the other 
on a pedicel of its own length or less, surrounded by short hairs at the 
base, 11/,—2” long, slender acute, compressed from the back. Glumes 
all awned and equal, the two outer narrow lanceolate-acute, subcharta- 
ceous, 3-nerved, serrulate along the nerves; the lower entire, with a straight 
awn of once or twice its length, the second bidentate, with a shorter 
geniculate awn. Flowering glume chartaceous, whitish, convex, ovate, with, 
a median and 2 faint marginal nerves, the entire apex ending in a long \ 
awn of 3—6", twisted and bent before evolution but straight at last. 
Palea as long as its glume, lanceolate. Lodicules as long as the ovary, 
ginate at both ends, on short filaments. Ovary ovoid peaked. Styles 
approximate, aegis with short plumose stigmas. — G. patula, Munro, in 
Seem. Journ. Bot 8 
f. — Outer sere with shorter awns, that of the second reduced toa 
mucro. car ig subdistichous. 
we te and irregularly sisi the upper half, in another they seem 
es iets of two bundles of fringes 
17. ARUNDINELLA, Raddi. 
Spikelets articulate with the pedicels, in pairs on the branches of a 
terminal panicle, 1-flowered or with a second male flower below the 
fertile one. Glumes 4, acute, the second longest, the third similar but 
often with a palea and 3 stamens, the fourth hermaphrodite, smaller, thin, 
with a terminal awn which is twisted at the base and bent back at or 
below the middle. Palea on awnless. Grain enclosed in the slightly 
stiffened glume and 
A eet and eg genus, chiefly Asiatic, with a few African and S. American 
speci 
1, A, agrostioides, Trin. Icon. tab. 265. — Steud. Synops. Pl. Glum. I, 116. 
— ¢€ 3 Tote, the stems about 1 ft. high, geniculate below, simple. Leaves 
ing, linear, about 1” broad. a but folded at the base, the 
lowest 6—7‘ long, ees at the m ro 
