Fic. 10. Hackelochloa is (S oe Kuntze. LIZARD-TAIL GRASS. 
a, A portion of a spike tearing Seer four spikelets; }, a sessile and i nemapegaok spike- 
let; d, anterior view of the = or outer glume of the sessile spikel 
glume of same; f, third glume of same; g, f ourth or flowering mets pee caiee 
and flower; c, imperfect or pediceliate spikelet. 
HACKELOCHLOA O. Kuntze, Rey.Gen. Pl. 2:776. 1891. (Manisuris Sw. 
aap 8 Linn. sire ) Spikelets in pairs, partially embedded in the excavations 
of the articulate rachis, one sessile and hermaphrodite, the other pedicellate, 
the serie el cae to the rachis. Glumes of the perfect spikelet awnless; the 
outer empty one coriaceous, globose, pitted externally and covering | the. cavity 
in the rachis; t length, less ia 
ity of the rachis; the 3d empty, and, like the 4th, hyaline. Palea minute or 
wanting; lodicules broadly wedge-shaped, truncate. Stamens 3. Styles dis- 
tinct; stigmas plumose. Grain short, ovoid, inclu ded within the glumes, free. 
much-branched annual grass with flat leaves and numerous slender spikes 
as a weed in all tropical or warmer temperate regions of 
