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Fig. 20. Anthaenantia rufa (Ell.) Schultes.— a, A spikelet; b, flowering glume. 

 Figure 337 in Bui. 17 illustrates a second species of this genus. 



20. ANTHiENANTIA Beauv. Agrost. 48. t. 10,/. 7. 1812. Spikelets ovate, 

 1-flowered, hermaphrodite, loosely paniculate. Empty glumes 2, slightly un- 

 equal, the 2d with a small palea or inclosing a staminate flower; flowering 

 glume slightly indurated, usually a little shorter than the empty ones. Stamens 

 3. Styles distinct; stigmas plumose. Grain loosely inclosed within the fruiting 

 glume. Erect, csespitose perennials with narrow, flat leaves; loose, terminal 

 panicles, and pilose or pubescent spikelets, the glumes of which are as in 

 Paspalum. 



Species 3, two in North America and the other in tropical South America. 



