XX11 SYNOPSIS OF GENERA. 



without awns, longer than the unequally obtuse inferior 

 empty ones. Seed transversely wrinkled, usually loose 

 within the pericarp. (Makra, mandua, chhimbar, &c.) 



{Vide Plate F., Fig. 29). 



Eleustne, p. 56. 

 Spikelets small, flat, sessile or nearly so, arranged on 

 one side of the slender spike-like branches of a long 

 panicle. Flowering glumes without awns, longer than 

 the lower empty ones. 



Leptochloa, p. 59. 



TRIBE XI. Festueeae.— Spikelets with two or more perfect 



florets, rarely only 1-flowered, panicled, rarely in racemes or 



clusters. Flowering glumes usually without awns, which when 



present are terminal and straight. 



Spikelets 1 — 2 rarely 3-flowered, in dense spike-like 



panicles. Flowering glumes with nine awns. In India 



confined to Northern Punjab. 



Pappophorttm, p. 59. 



Panicle branches long, slender, and spike-like as in Lep- 

 tochloa. Spikelets many-flowered, narrow. Flowering 

 glumes 3-toothed, the central one mucriform. 



Diplachne, p. 59. 



Spikelets 2 — 4-flowered. arranged in large branching 

 panicles Axis of spikelets silky hairy. Flowering 

 glumes clothed with silky hairs, 3-nerved, 2-toothed and 

 mucronate between the teeth. (Tall reeds). 



Arukdo, p. 60. 



Lowest floret of spikelets male or sterile. Flowering 



glumes without hairs. Otherwise as in Arundo. (Tide 



Plate F., Fig. 30). 



Phragmites, p. 60. 



Spikelets many-flowered, minute, crowded into com- 

 pound subglobose clusters, the whole forming an inter- 

 rupted spike. Flowering glumes 3-nerved, mucronate, 

 acuminate or almost awned. Pales keeled on both sides, 

 one or both keels broadly winged. A very distinct 

 looking annual, usually occurring on a moist clayey 



soil. {Vide Plate F., Fig. 31). 



Elytrophorus, p. 60. 



Spikelets dimorphic, in a dense unilateral panicle ; ter- 

 minal one of each branchlet 1-flowered. Flowering 

 glume and upper empty one awned. Glumes of lower 



