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FIGURE 91.—Phalaris canariensis. Plant, X %; spikelet and@“floret, X 5 (Mearns 3376). 
TRIBE 9. ORYZEAE 
60. ORYZA L., Sp. Pl. 333. 1753 
Spikelets, 1-flowered, laterally compressed, disarticulating below 
the glumes; glumes 2, much shorter than the lemma, narrow; lemma 
rigid, keeled, 3-nerved (with 2 thin additional marginal nerves seen 
only in section), sometimes awned; palea similar to the lemma, 
