98. GRAMINE^. 
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Tr. IV. PHLEINEJI. Inflorescence dense, spLkelike. Spike- 
lets laterally compressed, X-jkmered or with a superior 
rudiment. Gl. nearly equal, covering the flowers. Styles 
long. Stigmas filiform. 
10. Phleum. Gl. compressed, keeled, parallel at the midrib, 
truncate, with a terminal seta, or acute. Fl. 1. Pales 2, 
membranous ; lower 3-veined, blunt, without awns, or 
with a minute central point. 
11. Alopectjeus. Gl. compressed, connate below, membra- 
nous, awnless. Fl. 1. Pale 1, scarious, 5-veined, awned 
on the back. 
Tr. V. SESLERIE^E. Panicle spikelike. Spikelets laterally 
compressed, with 2 or more flou'ers. Styles 0 or very 
short. Stigmas very long, filiform. 
12. Sesleeia. Spikelets sessile, imbricate all round. Gl. 
2 — 6-flowered, nearly or quite equalling the spikelet. 
Lower pale keeled, membranous, with a scarious margin, 
ending in 3 or 5 points ; dorsal rib excurrent. 
B. Spikelets sessile in hollows of the rachis. 
Tr. VI. XARDE^E. Spikelets 1-flowered. Gl. 0. Style 
short. Stigmas filiform. 
13. Xabdus. Spikelets in 2 rows on one side of the rachis. 
Lower pale keeled, tapering into a subulate point. Stig- 
mas long. 
Suborder II. EURYANTHE.E. 
Flowers open. Style short. Stigmas protruded near to the 
bottom of the flower. 
A. Injlorescence panided or raiemose ; rachis without lateral 
excavations. 
Tr. VII. ORYZEuE. Spikelets laterally compressed, 1-flowered. 
Glumes 0. Stigmas feather}'. Pales enclosing but free 
from the nut. — Pales opening only slightly. 
14. Leeesia. Pales 2, like parchment, compressed keeled, 
awnless ; lower much broader. 
