109. Flowering glumes with 3, sometimes very short awns. Spikelets many-flowered. Spikes long, rather loose.--Species 4. Central Africa. =Tripogon= Roth Flowering glumes with one awn or mucro or unarmed. Spikes dense, usually short. 110 110. Flowering glumes with a rather long awn, long-haired on the back. Spikelets 2-3-flowered.--Species 6. Central and North Africa. (Including _Lepidopironia_ Rich.) =Tetrapogon= Desf. Flowering glumes unarmed or mucronate. 111 111. Spikes 2-3 together. Spikelets 3-4-flowered. Fruit almost orbicular. Leaves rather broad.--Species 1. Egypt and Nubia. (Under _Eragrostis_ Beauv.) =Coelachyrum= Nees Spike solitary. Fruit oblong. Leaves narrow. 112 112. Spikelets 2-flowered. Flowering glumes and paleas delicately membranous.--Species 3. South Africa. (_Prionanthium_ Desv.) =Prionachne= Nees Spikelets 3-to many-flowered. Flowering glumes and paleas firmly membranous, rather stiff. 113 113. Outer glumes subequal.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). =Wangenheimia= Moench Outer glumes very unequal or only one present.--Species 50. Some are used for the manufacture of paper or as ornamental or fodder-plants. Fescue.” (Including _Ctenopsis_ De Not., _Nardurus_ Reichb., and _Vulpia_ Gmel.) =Festuca= L. 114. (108.) Outer glumes 4. Spikelets falling entire. 115 Outer glumes 2, usually persisting on the stalk of the spikelet. 116 115. Outer glumes 1-nerved. Flowering glumes 5-nerved. Styles short.--Species 1. South Africa. =Tetrachne= Nees Outer glumes 3-8-nerved. Flowering glumes 7-11-nerved. Styles long.--Species 2. South Africa and Angola. (Under _Tetrachne_ Nees). =Entoplocamia= Stapf 116. Outer glumes shortly awned, much longer than the flowering glumes. Spikes short, distant, at length bent downward.--Species 2. Central Africa and Egypt. Used as ornamental grasses. (_Dineba_ Jacq.) =Dinebra= Jacq. Outer glumes unarmed or mucronate, shorter than the flowering glumes. 117 117. Spikelets very densely crowded. Spikes digitate, at least the upper. 118 Spikelets not very densely crowded. Spikes distant. 119 118. Spikes ending in a point. Outer glumes mucronate.--Species 6. Used as cereals, fodder-, medicinal, or ornamental plants, and for making beer. (Under _Eleusine_ Gaertn.) =Dactyloctenium= Willd. Spikes terminated by a spikelet. Outer glumes usually unarmed. Pericarp usually loose.--Species 10. The coracan (_E. coracana_ Gaertn.) is cultivated as a cereal and for the preparation of beer; other species are used as medicinal or ornamental plants. (Including _Acrachne_ Wight Arn.) =Eleusine= Gaertn. 119. Flowering glumes rounded on the back. Pericarp more or less adhering to the palea. (See 113.) =Festuca= L. Flowering glumes keeled. Pericarp free. 120 120. Glumes thinly membranous, the outer subequal. 121 Glumes firmly membranous, glabrous, the outer conspicuously unequal. 122