DESCRIPTIONS OF TRIBES AND GENERA. 



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63. (9) Ichnanthus Beauv. (Navicularia Kaddi). Spike- 

 lets ovate or acute, short pedicellate on the branches of 

 the panicle, with one $ and one $ flower. Leaves broad- 

 lanceolate to ovate. 



Species twenty, all in tropical America, one of them 

 also in India. 



64. (8 ) Tricholaena Schrad. (Bhynchdytrum Nees, 

 Hochst., Monachyron Parl.). 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 Sicil} T 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 



