74 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Artificial 
Fruit opening at top as a cireumscissile or 3-¥ 
a v0 
Fruit indehiscent ; often the ovary sige in 
¥ Bootie ck a tunicated bulb; leaves not. stro 
nerved, flat, smooth, thinly fleshy; flowers at the 
of a scape usually um rue. lips soli 
perianth white or pink :—{p. 
d 
pe ag Scapes umbellate .......... j 
Govary ee +—fp. ‘7 
“Flowers arranged in spikelets with imbricating ee ty) 
1- sia and ovule solitary ; leaves with stem-cla sping sheaths 
and a ligule at the junction of leaf-sheath and blade ; peri 
if present reduced to a 2-nerved palea and 2 lodicules ; 
a grain with seed-coats adherent to the pericarp :—(p. 7 5] 
Herbaceous grasses; blades never transversely veined 2 
articulate on the leaf-sheaths is 
Glumes I and II minute or setaceous ; aa and i. 
chartaceo 058 
Glumes I and IT absent; III and IV forks an 
lumes broad, the outmost not awned 
Cee eee tee seeeees 
Glumes narrow, the outmost awned 
1060. H 
Shrubby or tree-like grasses; blades transversely Vv 
and articulate on the leat-sheath 
5 
Spikelets fans acu. only one flower asoally 
fertile ; area: 4 spikelets capitate on the branches 
of the panicle 
Ovary highs at top; pericarp crustaceous 
1119. D 
Ovary glabrous at top ; ashes fleshy 
0. Melocalamus- 
Spikelets 1-flowered :— 
‘Spikelets loosely spicate on the branches of bass 
panicle [p, 75] Se ONS psa enre et: | einostachy' 
