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GRAMINE.E. 
Tribe VIII. Bambuse^:. Spikelets manv-flowered, panicled. Arbor- 
escent. 
Fruit a small dry grain * Bambusa. 
Fruit often fleshy, comparatively large. 
Flowering glume spiny-tipped * Dendrocalamus. 
Flowering glume not spine-tipped * Melanocanna. 
Tribe Bottb(ellie;e. Spikelets placed in the hollows of a simple 
jointed rachis. 
The only genus 24. Rottbqellia. 
1. COIX, Linn. 
Spikelets monoicous, 1-2 females at the bottom of each branch of 
the panicle, enclosed in a hard bottle-shaped glossy white involucre, 
from which the long stigmas protrude ; upper spikelets many, male, 
2 - flowered. Empty glumes large, muticous, the outer one 
winged at the edge. Flowering glume and pale membranous, enclosed 
within the empty glumes, lanceolate, acute. Hypogynous scales 2, 
fleshy. Stamens 3. — A single species, cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
1. C. Lachryma, Linn. ; Kunth , JEnum. i. 20. Erect, glabrous in 
all its parts. Stems stout, terete, much-branched, 3-5 feet long. 
Leaves a foot long, lanceolate, firm in texture, with a distinct midrib. 
Panicles lax, leafy to the top, with many erecto-patent, simple branches, 
which break away after flowering above the female spikelets. Male 
spikelets imbricating, erecto-patent, ^ in. long. Bot. Mag. t. 2479. 
Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Seychelles, frequent by roadsides, etc., ascending 
nearly to the summit of the Pouce. Spread through the tropics of both hemispheres. 
Larmes de Job. 
2. PASPALUM, Linn. 
Outer empty glume present, the inner abortive. Spikelets 2- 
flowered, the lower flower neuter, minute, the upper one hermaphro- 
dite. Flowering glume flattish, clasping the narrower pale by its 
edges, both muticous. Hypogynous scales glabrous, entire, truncate. 
Stamens '3. Stigmas protruded from the top of the flower. Grain 
oblong or round, plano-convex. — Stems leafy ; spikelets arranged in 
two rows in spikes with a more or less decidedly flattened rachis ; 
pedicels very short, articulated at the tip. Distrib. Tropics of both 
hemispheres, especially the New World. Species 200. 
Nodes of the stem usually one or two 1. P. platycaule. 
Nodes of stem three or more. 
Spike solitary 2. P. heteropodium. 
Spikes two or more. 
Spikelets acute. 
Spikelets in. long 3. P. longiflorum. 
Spikelets | in. long 4. P. bistichum. 
Spikelets obtuse 5. P. scrobiculatum. 
