r*TTLorjs, Swartz. 
SriKELKT.s of 2-4 florets, sessile, crowded, unilateral, 2-seriate on a slender 
rhachis ; rhachilla disarticulating above the glumes, tough between the valves, 
more or less ])roduced ; lowest floret hermaphrodite, tlie second male or barren, the 
following, if present, l)arren, often minute. 
Glumes 2, persistent, narrow, keeled, acute and mucronate, very thin, or 
broad, and the upper obtuse, more or less bilobed and rounded on the back. 
Hermaplu'odite floret ; valve narrow or broad, 3-nerved, acute or obtuse, minutelv 
2-toothed, usually awned from below the apex, often ciliate ; pale almost e([ualling 
the valve, 2-keeled ; lodicules 2, miinite, delicate, glabrous ; stamens 3 ; ovary 
glabrous, styles distinct, short ; stigmas laterally exserted. Male floret ; valve 
and pale as in the l)erma})]nodite flower, but smaller and glabrous. Rudimentai y 
florets glabrous, awned or awnless, small to very small, usually without a trace of 
a pale. Grain oblong, triquetrous ; embryo rather large ; hilum punctiform, basal. 
Perennial or Annual ; leaves flat or folded ; spikes solitary or several to 
many in terminal umbels or short racemes, erect or stellately spreading. 
Species 40-45 in the trojMcal and subtro])ical regions of both hemispheres. 
PLATE 435. 
GuLORis PYc'NOTHRix, Triu. (Fl. Gap., Vol. VLI., {>. r.4l). 
Nat, Order Graminea?. 
Perennial OR Annual (flowering the first year ?) I to 1 foot higli. Stems 
prostrate, emitting tufts of bai-ren shoots and culms from the rooting nodes. 
( kiLMS geniculately ascending, 2-3-noded, more or less sulcate below, glabrous, 
upjier internodes exserted. 
Leaves conspicuously disticlious ; basal sheaths much compressed, keeled, 
short, up]iermost usually subtumid, all glabrous, smooth ; ligules membranous, u}) 
to ^ line long, ciliolate ; ))lades linear, obtuse, to 2 inches by 1^ to 2 lines, 
rarely longer, flat, glaucous, glabrous, smooth or scaberulous alxwe, margins rough. 
Spikes 3 to 9, sessile or some shortly peduncled, umbelled or submnbelled, suberect, 
at length usually spreading, pallid or purplish, to 3 inches long ; rhachis scabrid, 
SriKELETS 2-awned, j line long; rhacliilla joints between the valves # the 
length of the lower valve, fine, rhachilla not produced. 
Glumes verv narrow, lanceolate, acuminate, the loirrr i to ^ line long, the 
upper 1 t() I J line, keels very scabrid. Ijower valve linear-oblong in profile, 
acute, minutely 2-toothed, If line long, glabrous, keel and tip scabendoiis ; callus 
minutely bearded, awn very fine, G to S lines long ; pale glabrous, keels scabrid ; 
anthers j line long ; grain linear-oblong, ^ line long ; \ipper valve rudimentary, 
empty, line long, awn 2 to 3 lines long. 
Habitat: Natal. Umpnmulo, ISOO feet alt., Jhirhajiau Iftf); Inanda, ISOO 
feet alt., Wood 1590. 
Also in tropical Africa, and Eastern Brazil and Paraguay. 
Drawn from I>uclianan"s 185. 
Fig- 1, Lnwor glume ; 2, ii]i]iev liliiine ; valve : 4, pale : .'), jiistil. stamens and lodienles ; 
(!, ii])]iei' valve. A// mlnrt/cil. 
