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Ol <i GRAMINER — 747 
blades lanceolate-oblong or ovate-oblong, ae pereeniatly at 
the rounded base, peas mage acuminate, 4— —23 in., flat, 
glaucous, glabrous except quite at the base, zine sparingly hairy, 
slightly rough eu bout 11-19 primary nerves romi ent 
the uppermost leaf axil, 3-6 in. long, rather contracted or sub- 
pyramidal; axis slender, angular, pubescent; branches solitary or 
sometimes fascicled, subflexuous or straight, angular, pubescent ; 
pedicels adpressed, of the spikelets filiform, of the 9? 
clavate; ¢ spikelets — linear-lanceolate, acuminate, awned 
from the valve, glabrous ; glumes quite rudimentary forming 
i the ti 
an awn of about equal length, 13-2 lin. long, 3-nerved ; lod 
cuneate, thin ; anthers over 1 lin, wie t 2 spikelets solitary and terminal 
on the tips of the branches, or 2—3, rarely more, below the terminal 
acuminate or shortly caudate-acuminate, about 4 lin. long, 5-7-nerved, 
upper produced into a flexuous scabrid awn of equal or greater 
length, 7~9-nerved ; vale ovate-elliptic, obtuse, 2-3 lin. long, white 
Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. ii. 316. O. paniculata, Sw. Prodr. 21; 
347; Trin. Panic. Gen. 23, and in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, iii. 
(1835) 111 See Gram. t. 346; Kunth, Enum. i. 69 ; Steud. Syn. Pt. 
Glum. i. . . brevifolia, Schum. in Schum . & Thonn. Beskr. 
Guin. Pl, vig 0. ~ ineensis, Steud. le. 37 ; " Durand § Schinz, 
Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 
EASTERN dean gions in Ungoya Forest, Wood, 3856! Ongor, 
Gerrard § McKen, 2014! 
Tropical Paes and Africa and in the Mascarene Islands, 
XCIX. ARUNDINABRIA, Mich. 
Spikelets often long, more or less compressed or subeylindric, 
variously panicled or racemose ; rhachilla tardily disarticulating above 
uppermost reduced. Glumes 2 or 1, unequal, herbaceous to mem- 
branous, variously nerved. Valves usually similar to the glumes, 
but larger, subobtuse, acute, acuminate or mucronate, rounded on the 
k, mem branous-herbaceous, sg Hos oded. Lodicules 3, ovate or 
lanceolate, ciliate amens 3. ry glabrous or often hairy at 
top ; styles 9-3, connate at ie bate stigmas loosely plum 
rt Grat 
y ? osed 
and pale, grooved in front ; embryo short ; ag se long, filiform 
