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Fie. 30. Pharus latifolius L.—a, A branch showing a sessile pistillate anda 
6 oe a staminate spikelet; 6, fruiting spikelet removed from the empty 
jumes, 
| PHARUS P. Browne, Civ. and Nat. Hist. Jamaic., 344. 1756. Spikelets 
unisexual, moncecious, i-floweged, in pairs along the branches of the panicle; 
one sessile and pistillate, the other much smaller, pedicellate and staminate. 
Staminate spikelet with 3 rather broad, membranaceous, and many-nerved 
glumes; the Isttwo empty, a qual, tl as long as the flowering 
glume. Palea none. Stamens 6. Pistillate spikelet with 3 glumes, the Ist 
two empty, membranaceous, many-nerved, subequal, much shorter than the 
long, coriaceous flowering glume, which closely envelops the 2-nerved palea. 
Styles filiform, elongated; stigmas 3, shortly papillate-pilose. 
Grain terete, linear, included within the indurated fruiting glume. Rather 
stout, tropical grasses, with broad and long-petiolate leaves and terminal 
Species 4 or 5, tropical America, 1 in southern Florida. 
