to the Genera.] III.—TRIANDRIA. 35 
**Glumes I and II not separately deciduous :— 
4 
tio west glume, at least, subulate-aristate ; spike- 
lets fascicled or solitary on a simple axis or on 
the branches of a panicle ...1052. oP! smenus. 
Lowest glume not subulate-arista 
Glume II fimbriate ; glume III with a deep- 
2-nerved or hyaline rudimentary palea or 
1 anicum. 
quite empty 
§Lowest glume minute or 0:—[p. 34] - 
Lowest glume nute Rio usually present ; 
glume III with ‘Siaabsiig a minute palea, its 
nerves — 0 minent ...... 1055. Digi 
Lowest gl a glume II (= glume = of 
Digitaria) em st oe ied nerves cu 
Spikelets not thickened at the base 
6. Paspalum. 
7. Eriochloa. 
{| Spikelets 1-flowered, deciduous with their pedicels —{p. _ 
Spikelets fascicled all round a slender rachis, 
a — of 2-4; outer glume echinate ; nog free or 
061. 
Spikelets thickened at the base 
105 
Slt not peers serge singly; peer not echinate ; 
styles co low 
dist perros awns 1063. Zoysia. 
Glumes long-awned.........secceeceeseeeee scenes 1062. Perotis. 
§Spikelets usually in pairs, one sessile the other pedicelled, or 
the terminal 3-nate or solitary, in the axis of a usually spike- 
like raceme; outer glumes more or less rigid and firmer than 
the flowering glumes, the lower always larger than the florets ; 
flowering glumes membranous, often hyaline, that of the upper 
oret often awned or reduced to an awn; styles always dis- 
tinct sas yg Bs 
tt tracted panicles :—{p. 36 
re of spikelets in . open, compound, much-branched 
pani 
Spikelots awnless .. Saccharum. 
_— awned : ae Erianthus. 
of spikelets 2-nate, digitate, or eae on 4 
