No. 24. 
TRICHLORIS PLURFLORA Fourn. 
Plant rather coarse, somewhat glaucous throughout or purplish in the inflor- 
escence. 
Culms few, from loosely pare slightly bulbous base, erect, solid, terete, 
smooth, — branching, 2 to 3 f Hl. 
Leaves; radical and from nse pee numerous, with ots sheaths, and flat, 
Aolee aaR a blades, 3 to 4 lines wide and 8 to 10 inches long, scabrous above and 
below, with scattered hairs near the ligule; of stem 5 to ts sheath equaling or 
exceeding internode, loose and open above, smooth; blade ike that of the radical 
peg ligule a row of rusty, fine hairs } line long. 
nflorescence an obovate panicle of 10 to 15 slightly spreading, narrow, sessile 
approximate spikes, scattered one or two in a place along the short rachis. Spikes — 
_ unilateral, rachis hispid, 2 to 4 inches long. 
pikelets nearly sessile, with 3 or 4 flowers, the,wpper ones storile: first glume 
narrowly-lanceolate, terminating in an awn-like point, hyaline, about 1 line long; 
second glume larger, 1} to 2 lines long; floral glumes narrowly-lanceolate, scabrous, 
ciliate on the margins, 1-nerved, 2 lines long, terminating in 3 hispid awns, middle 
one 4 lines and lateral ones abet 1 line long; palet lanceolate, acute, 2-nerved, 
hyaline margins infolded; upper sterile glumes same as floral glumes but smaller 
and lateral awns sometimes minute. : 
Grain yellow, narrowly triangular, $ line long. 
PLATE XXIV; a, spikelet; b, floral glume; c, palet; d, empty glumes. 
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