Gracilea. | GRAMINE #&. 1295 
rachilla articulate between the flowering glumes, not produced 
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beyond the uppermost neuter. G@lwmes many ; I. and II. unequal, 
obtuse, membranous, 1-nerved, per rsistent; flowering glume 
rather hones oblong, grit say ip seis mucronate or 
awne palea linear; lodicules 2, wide-cun stamens 3; 
ihiers short; styles short, deatnnt. with distant 2 and short, 
plumose, laterally exserted ae Grain oblong, stipitate, 
concavo-convex, free in the glu 
2702. DIrLacHyE FUSCA — : — B. I. vii. 8329. Poa procera 
¥. 1.3, 632, 
Sundribuns ; C. Bengal. 
A tall, tufted, perennial grass; stems 3-5 feet high. 
1105. Leptochloa Beauv. 
Tall, slender, annual grasses; leaves flat or involute. Spikelets 
very minute, compressed, 1-many-flowered, sessile or shortly 
pedicelled, alternate and unilateral on the very slender, spike-like 
branches of a lax panicle, not joes at the base; rachilla 
duced between the flowering glumes, but not ae the upper, 
articulate at the base. Glwmes 3-8, membranous; I. and II. 
palea neat as long as a pain 2-keeled ; lodicules 2, cuneate ; 
sta 
closely invested by, and sometimes adnate to, the glume and palea. 
Spikelets 2-3-flowered 
Spikelets 4-6-flowered 
27038. ee peers tie & Schult.; F. B. I. vii. 298. 
ra filiformis F. I. i. 
n all the provin 
; slender, oti annual grass. 
2704. — CHINENSIS — F. B. I. vii. 299; E. D. 
Poa chinensis F. I. i. 832. 
ape slender, erect or suberect, hha grass. 
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chinensis 
1106. Gracilea Koe 
Small, tufted es; leaves short. ee 2-flowered, col- 
lected in turbinate fascicles, ie are secund, sessile, and articu- 
