

XVI SYNOPSIS OF GEN-ERA. 



hooked bristles. A small erect annual. (Vide Plate 



B., Fig. 8). 



Tragus, p. 21. 



Spikelets in a lax raceme, solitary or rarely in pairs on 



each pedicel, small, and stalked. Glumes 3, lowest 



stiff, deeply concave and muricate on the back. A small 



rigid annual. 



Latipes, p. 22. 



Spikelets in a long slender spike-like raceme, nearly 

 sessile. Glumes 3, the two lower ones linear, stiff, 

 with slender terminal awns. (Vide Plate B., Fig. 9). 



Perotis, p. 22. 

 TRIBE VI. Andropogonese. — Spikelets in pairs at each node 

 of the articulate rachis of the spike or of the panicle branches, 

 or in triplets at the end of each branch, more or less surrounded 

 by long silky hairs. Inner glume under the fertile floret 

 smaller and thinner than the lower or outer empty ones. 



* The two spikelets of each pair hermaphrodite. Inflores- 

 cence paniculate, 

 f Panicle branches not jointed. Spikelets of each pair un- 

 equally pedicelled. 

 Spikelets in a dense cylindrical spike-like panicle clothed 

 with silvery white hairs. None of the glumes awned. 

 Stamens 2. A perennial occurring usually on wet or 

 undrained soil. (Vide Plate B., Fig. 10). 



Imperata, p. 22. 

 Spikelets in a loose panicle. Flowering glume awned. 

 Stamens 3. A tall perennial grass. 



MlSCANTHTTS, p. 23. 



ft Panicle branches jointed. Spikelets of each pair the one 

 sessile and the other stalked. 



Spikelets small in a dense compound usually large pani- 

 cle. Glumes without awns. Tall grasses with thick 

 woody stems, and panicles densely clothed with silky 

 hairs. (Sugarcane, munj grass, &c). 



Saccharttm, p. 23. 

 Inflorescence as in SaccTiarum. Flowering glume awned. 

 (Vide Plate B., Fig. 11). 



Erianthtjs, p. 26. 

 Panicle loose ; branches short, ending in 3 spikelets, 

 with occasionally one or two pairs below, as in Chry- 





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