Elytrophorus.} GRAMINE. 1217 
2677. Avena satrva Linn. ; F. B. I. vii. 275; E. D. A. 1639. 
Cultivated sparingly. 
tall, annual grass. Hind. Jai. The Oat. 
1096. Centotheca Desv. 
Tall, leafy, eer grasses ; leaves broadly oblong or lanceo- 
late, veins trabeculat Spikelets 1-8-flowered, alternate and 
secund on the long, ye te capillary branches of a lax, sub- 
simple ea not articulate at the base, laterally compressed, all 
perfect or one or more upper neuter; rachilla slender, articulate at 
the base and between the flowering glumes, not produced beyond 
the uppermost. Glumes I. and II. distant their insertions, 
ovate-oblong, empty, persistent, 3-veined, II. he argest ; 
glumes broadly ao obtuse, apiculate, dorsally rounded, 7-veined, 
naked, or the upper usually bearing above the middle, soft, erect, 
at length deflexed, pb le-based spines; palea narrow, keels 
ciliolate: lodicules 0; stamens 2-3; anthers linear; styles short, 
free ; stigmas narrow; hairs short. Grain ovoid, acute, terete, 
ee within the glum 
2678. Cenrorurca Lappacea Desy.; F. B. I. vii. oy Melica 
diandra F. 1. i. 827. M. rafracte F. qui. 
N. Bengal, Duars; E. Bengal, atte 
A stout, erect grass, 1-3 eye high. 
1097. Elytrophorus Beauv. 
An annual, erect, glabrous grass; leaves very narrow, flat. 
Spikelets very minute, sessile, in glo clusters, crowded 
together in long, eylindric, co ontinuous or pon upted, catkin-like 
Spikes, or rarely on the short, spike-like branches of a very con- 
tracted raceme, many of the spikelets imperfect, or reduced to 
empty glumes, strongly laterally compressed, not articulate at the 
base, 4-6-flowered ; rachilla very short, articulate at the base and 
between the flowering glumes, but not beyond the upper. Glumes 
c ty, 
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broad, truncately 3-lobed, lobes ciliate, keels distant 
Smooth ; lodicules 2, obliquely oblong; stamens 1-3; anthers 
minute; styles free, long; stigmatic hairs very short, Grain 
