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Fig. 30. Pharus latifolius L. — a, A branch showing a sessile pistillate and a 

 pedicellate staminate spikelet; 6, fruiting spikelet removed from the empty 

 glumes. 



30. PHARTJS P, Browne, Civ. and Nat. Hist. Jamaic, 344. 1756. Spikelets 

 unisexual, monoecious, 1-flowered, 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 1st two empty, slightly unequal, the '2d about as long as the flowering 

 glume. Palea none. Stamens 6. Pistillate spikelet with 3 glumes, the 1st 

 two empty, membranaceous, many-nerved, subequal, much shorter than the 

 long, coriaceous flowering glume, which closely envelops the 2-nerved palea. 

 Stamens none. 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 

 panicles. 



Species 4 or 5, tropical America, 1 in southern Florida. 



