to the Generd.] XXIL.—MONGCIA. i39 
rigid, often papery to crustaceous, awnless or, rarely, 
mucronate ; stamens 3:— 
Branches of the panicle produced beyond the 
uppermost ss glume I minite, ins i 
spikelets narrow 1049. Cham —_ 
Branches “, dhe panicle not produced od th 
—— spikelets; glume I menned seikslets 
subglobos Isachne 
Spikelets in pairs, one sessile the ce pediestiod, 
or the terminal ternate or solitary on the axis of a 
usually spike-like raceme; outer glumes more or 
less rigid and firmer than the flowering glumes, the 
lower always longer than the florets; flowering 
glumes membranous; often hyaline, that of the 
upper floret often awned or reduced to an awn :— 
Spikelets of each pair differing in sex and 
structure :— 
Spikelets 3, a sessile 2-flowered and 2 pedicelled 
enclosed in a peduncled spathe on a short 1-nodal 
inarticulate rachis; stamens 3 ...1074. Apluda. 
4) —Spikele ts many or few on a slucinndal articulate 
rachis :— 
Lower floret of the sessile spikelet male :— 
Margin of glume I of sessile spikelet in- 
1075. Isch 
flexed; stamens 3......... schemum. 
Margin of glume I of sessile rn not 
inflexed; stamens 1-2...1079. hopogon. 
wiles - ret of all the “tls empty: 
2 istiria. 
ERs prensa a spice ae male 
and female spikelets on Pica spikes or, if on 
the same ene ve the females at the base of 
the spike; sta 
Fruiting ae densely crowded on a cylindrie 
spongy rachis, the grain exposed ...... 1084. Zea. 
Fruiting spikelets a5 ee slender, grain 
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other glumes and the grain...1085. Polytoca. 
Fruiting spikelet enclosed in the stony, 
polished, nut-like bract...........0+ 1086. Coix. 
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