_ Arundinella.} GRAMINE #1, 1215 
1093. Arundinella Raddi. 
Annual or perennial, erect grasses; leaves narrow. Spikelets 
panicled, barke. jointed on their peti or with glumes I. and II. 
Separately deciduous, 1-2-flowered, with the upper flower always 
emale ; rachilla not or shortly produced between ps three lower 
stumes. Glumes 4, membranous, chartaceous or thinly coriaceous ; 
I. and II. elupty, strongly veined, acute or ORE: IT. longe 
than I.; IIT. shorter than IL., faintly —— paleate, male or 
neuter, a 2-sexual ; [V. much shorter than III. and thinner, 
paleate female or 2-sexual, sessile, pried wee at the naked or 
bearded base, awnless or 1-3-awned, if 3-awned the two lateral 
awns capillary, straight, the median Se with a straight or 
twisted column ; palea of III. and IV. linear or oblong, 2-keeled, 
flaps more or less conspicuously dilated or siesta at base; lodt- 
cules Y, sifeiesy stamens 3; anthers linear-oblong; styles 2, free 
or shortly connate below ; stigmas short, laterally exserted. Grit 
very small, ee compressed, loose in the membranous glume IV. 
and palea and closely embraced by these. 
Awns to glume IV. three, the lateral short, capillary setosd 
Awn to glume IV. solitar wry or 0 :— : 
ume IV. with awn ht as long as the spikelet 
Spikelets very small, less than ‘1 in. long; awn- Bhi slightly twisted 
tenella. 
Spikelets more than -1 in. long ; column of awn distinctly twisted 
brasiliensis. 
Glume IV. with awn 0 or short and hardly exserted :-— 
Panicle oe contracted, strict; awn to glume IV. - or very 
short and no “allichit. 
Panicle so corymbiform, upper branches longer rae rachis ; 
awn to glume IV. very shortly exserted, with base twisted 
Clarket 
2671. ARuNDINELLA seTosA Trin.; F. B. I. vii. 70. 
ur; Behar; W. Bengal. 
A rather tall, oe NN tufted grass. 
2672. ARUNDINELLA TENELLA Nees; F. B. I. vii. 71. 
Chota Nagpur; Behar. 
A soft, _ a eeiunal grass. 
2673. ARUNDINELLA BRASILIENSIS Raddi; F. B. I. vii. 73. Holcus 
Nervosus e teiy th 
