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1 to 3 empty glumes ; Jlowering glume ovate-lanceolate, usually mucronate ; palea two-keeled, 
the keels ciliate or not, the point usually entire. Lodicules 3, membranous, generally 
obtuse, ciliate. Stamens 6, filaments free, often exserted; anthers narrow, tip obtuse or 
apiculate or penicillate. Ovary oblong or obovate, hairy at the apex; style short or 
elongated; s#gmas 1 to 3, plumose or hairy. Caryopsis oblong or linear-oblong, acute or 
obtuse, furrowed on one side; pericarp thin, adherent; embryo conspicuous. 
Півтвів.--Везідев the 24 Indian and Straits species herein described, there are about 
6 Chinese (В. tuldoides, Munro; В. angulata, Munro; В. breviflora, Munro; В. flexuosa, 
Munro; В. Beecheyana, Munro, and B. Oldhami, Munro) and 1 Malay species (В. cornuta, 
Munro) which are well known; and there are also about 7 species from Eastern Asia and 
12 from the Malay Islands which are only very imperfectly known and described. Of the 
24 here described, 8 belong to the Western Peninsula, 9 to the Burmese region, and 5 to 
Malaya and the Islands of the Bay of Bengal, while 2 (В. vulgaris amd В. nana) are 
cultivated species frequently met with throughout the Indo-Malayan area, and one of 
them (В. vulgaris) also in America. Only one is certainly known from Australia, viz.: 
В. aruhemica, von Muell. from the North-East. 
Analysis of the species, 
Culms without spines to the branches. 
Fertile flowers several. 
Spikelets cylindric. Srcrion I. 
Spikelets in loose heads. 
Arborescent. 
Culm-sheaths, where known, with imperfect blade trian- 
gular from a broad base. 
Culm-sheaths with large auricles. 
Paleæ ciliate on the keels. 
Spikelets long. 
Spikelets many. 
Anthers obtuse . А . 1. В. Типа. 
» apiculate . 2. В. nutans 
ә penicilate , . 9. B. teres. 
Spikelets few. . . . . 4. B. Ridleyi. 
Spikelets short . . . . . . б. В. бигтапка. 
Pales not ciliate on the keels . . 6. B. polymorpha. 
Culm-sheaths with small auricles . . . . . . 7. B. pallida. 
Culm-sheaths with narrow imperfect blade and without 
о PEE «Йш. 
Culm-sheaths with inflated imperfect blade, leaf-tip 
ТАҒ о о и 9o s » с» „+... • • + D. В. Кагана. 
Shrubby . . . 10. B. nana. 
Spikelets in dense heads, ovate. .,......,.. 11. В. Baleooa. 
Spikelets flattened. Веспох II. 
Spikelets apparently 2-cleft, few-flowered. . . . . . . .12. В. vulgaris. 
Spikelets with distichous flowers. 
_ Fertile flowers 5 to 6. 
Anthers blunt or with 1 hair only at tip . . . . . 13. B. Bingham. 
Anthers acute with 3 or more hairs at tip. . . . . 14. B. Kingiana. 
Fertile flowers many, about 10, no lodicules. Вкстох HI. 15. В. lineata. 
