BAMBUSEM 249 



are usually 2- to 8-flowered, rarely 1-flowered, often in tufts at the 

 nodes of the flowering branchlets. Glumes 2, the lower lemmas often 

 sterile and gradually passing into the glumes. Blades usually short 

 and rather broad and usually articulated with the sheath, and often 

 with a short petiole. The stamens are 3 to 6, and the styles 2 or 3. 

 The fruit is sometimes a nut or even a berry. 



