566 GRAMINER. | Cephalostachyum. 
reduced to a rudimentary pedicel ; outer palea broadly ovate, con- 
eave, shortly acuminate, roughish at the apex, the imner one 
epressed on the back and smooth, linear-lanceolate, acuminate ; 
anthers purple, mucronate (the point roughish), spuriously 4-celled; 
ovary smooth with a firm style minutely hirsute at the apex; 
stigmas 3, purple ; lodicules 3, lanceolate, blunt, minutely ciliate at 
the apex ; caryopsis obliquely oblong, nearly 3 lin. long, smooth, 
terminated by a stiff, long, oblique beak. : 
Has.—In the tropical forests of South Andaman.—Fl. Fr. Apr.-May.—s.— 
SS.=Metam. 
into the glume-like bractlets, those of the nenieeohendees florets 
convolute and closely embracing the base of the sequent rac illa, 
shortly cuspidate, glabrous ; the inner palea somewhat longer, 
deplanate on the back and complicately 2-keeled, whitish ciliate oD 
the keels towards the apex; lodicules 3, large, oblong-lanceolate, 
acuminate, glabrous ; anthers spuriously 4-celled, notched at the 
apex, yellowish ; ovary almost flask-shaped and constricted at the 
base, 3-gonous, smooth, the style 3-quetrous and much longer than 
the paleas ; stigmas 3, feathery, white ; earyopsis obliquely ovoid, 
