— 
veo 
— 
a) 
: ginittee 4 glume of the perfect flower with a recat ay or 
nl 
ess 
: fisweriny glume of the perfect flower with 3 awns. 
98 
Spikes 2-6, digitate 73. CYNODON 
Spikes many, very slender and distant ong a common axis. 
(Bouteloua uniflora may be looked for here 
79. SCHEDONNARDUS 
Spikelets with 1 hermaphrodite floret, and 1 to several empty 
es or awns above se) 
glum 
. Spikelets with 2 to several hermaphrodite florets 11 
. Spikes digitate or closely approximate, occasionally in appar- 
9 
ent whorls 
. Spikes remote, or the lowest only approximate. ...-...--- 10 
LORIS 
77. TRICHLORIS 
Spikelets remote; upper sterile gl 1 t poo awns. 
78. GyMNOPOGON 
. Spikelets crowded; prolongation of the rachilla olen 
80. BovuTELova: 
. Spikes few, stout 12 
. Spikes slender, usually numerous 13 
: Bowe of the spikes terminated by aspikelet; empty glumes awn- 
. ELEUSINE 
‘ is of the spikes projecting beyond the spikelets; empty 
oes at least the second one, strongly mucronate or awn- 
inted 83. DacTryYLOcTENIUM 
. Spikes crowded or zope near the esa 4 the culms, 
flowering glumes long awned -..-.-------- . TRICHLORIS 
. Spikes alternating and more or less remote Soda the common 
axis; flowering glumes narrow, entire, or 2-toothed, awned 
or awnless 84. Le EPTOCHLOA 
pri 
