Sacciolepis .] clyii. gramine^e (Stapf). 749 
False spike up to 5 in. by H-2 lin., loosely 
pubescent with minutely tubercle-based 
hairs, pale greyish-green to straw-coloured; 
spikelets f-1 lin. long ; nerves blunt, pale ; 
leaf-blades up to 6 in, long 5. 8. Chevalieri. 
False spikes up to 1| in. by l|-§ lin., glabrous 
or delicately pubescent, olive-green with 
fine purple nerves and dark tips or almost 
entirely dark purple ; spikelets f lin. long ,• 
leaf-blades up to over 2 in. long ... ... 6. 8. brevifolia. 
Annual, 3-6 in. high with short flowering 
branches and only one culm-node, or up 
to 1 ft. high with long erect flowering 
branches and 2-3 culm-nodes ; leaf-blades 
thin, flat or folded, l|-6 in. by f-f lin. ; 
false spikes f- 2 in. by 1-1 £ lin., olive- 
green ; spikelets £— § lin. long ; glumes 
very thinly and softly membranous with 
purple nerves and dark tips 7. S, Tmillensis. 
Spikelets 1-2 J lin. long. 
Annual, tufted, 3-4 in. high ; blades 1-1 f in. by 
1-1 1 lin. ; false spikes £-f in. by If — 2^ in. ; 
spikelets 1 lin. long, quite smooth and 
glabrous ; lower glume 5-, upper 7-9- 
nerved ... 8, & spiciformis. 
Perennial. 
Spikelets 1-1 1 lin. long (see also 16, S. cmricu- 
lata), or if 2 lin. long then with a transverse 
fringe of hairs and with a 13 -nerved upper 
glume (15, S. transbarbata) ; glumes and 
lower valve thin and softly membranous 
between the nerves which may be rigid 
and thickened, or very fine, rarely the lower 
valve thickened below (see 10, S. cymbi- 
cindra). 
Axis of false spike rather stout and more or 
less stiff, up to over 1 lin. in diam. and 
up to over 12 in. long ; basal sheaths up 
to 6 in. long, spongy and cross-barred ; 
apparently all aquatic perfectly glabrous 
grasses. 
Leaf-blades flat, up to over 1 ft. by 3-6 lin. ; 
spikelets over 1 lin. long. 
Spikelets oblong, obtuse to subacute, 
dorsally slightly compressed to 
almost terete, bright yellowish- 
green with darker or brownish tips 9. S. interrupta, 
Spikelets broad-ovate, acuminate, later- 
ally compressed, asymmetric with 
the lower floret narrowly boat- 
shaped and gibbous and hardened 
below 10. S, oymbiandra. 
