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According to Kurz, Chloothammis Biise, with nodding 

 spikelets, also belongs here. 



311. (296) Dinochloa Biise. Spikelets very small, 

 one-flowered, in distant fascicles along the branches of a 

 very large panicle ; rachilla not prolonged ; empty glumes 

 2-3, obtuse ; flowering glume one, similar to the empty 

 ones ; palea very broad, fringed ; climbing, frutescent 

 plants. Fruit not well known, probably fleshy. 



Species one (D. Tjankorreh Biise), in the Malayan 

 Archipelago. 



312. (297) Melocanna Trin. Spikelets one-flowered, 

 in crowded, one-sided spikes, 2-3 together in a tuft 

 which is subtended by a leaf ; rachilla not prolonged ; 

 empty glumes 4-8, mucronate-pointed, many -nerved ; 

 lodicules two, narrow ; style elongated, 2-4-cleft ; fruit 

 shaped like an apple, fleshy. A tall tree. 



Species one (M. bamltusoides Trin.), in the East Indies, 

 occasionally cultivated (on Mauritius, for example). The 

 fruit, w r hich is 8-12 cm. in diameter, is baked and eaten 

 by the natives. The seed is the size of a betel-nut and 

 of good flavor. 



313. (298) Ochlandra Thwaites. Spikelets one-flow- 

 ered, large, arranged in glomerules forming an inter- 

 rupted spike, or in terminal heads ; rachilla prolonged ; 

 empty glumes 3-7, coriaceous ; flowering glume and 

 palea involute, elongated. The numerous lodicules and 

 the stamens somewhat connate at the base, the 6-30 

 filaments either in several bundles or grown together 

 into a tube that elongates after flowering ; ovary long- 

 pointed, style elongated, slightly 4-6 cleft at the sum- 

 mit ; fruit as in preceding genus, but somewhat smaller, 

 acuminate-pointed or beaked. Tall shrubs. 



Species three, in the East Indian Peninsula and 

 Ceylon. 



Doubtful genera : Pentarrhaphis Kunth and Polyschis- 

 tis Presl ( Chlorldea? ?) ; Lepturopsis Steud. (Andropogo- 

 nece) ; Chaboisscea Fourn. (Festucacece) ; AsthenocKtoa Biise, 

 LachnocUoa, Kampmannia, Disakisperma Steud., position 

 undetermined. 



