Botanical Name - Gramineae

----- Gramineae. ; F. B. I. V. 7. P. 1.

----- Herbs, shrubs or trees with jointed stems and generally hollow internodes. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, closely parallel-nerved. Base of the leaf sheathing, distinct from the blade. Sheath almost always split in front to the base often with a ligule at the apex, sometimes constricted into a petiole and jointed to the blade. Flowers usually bisexual, in variously arranged spikelets with 1 to 3 empty glumes at the base. Flowering glumes distichous, each with a 2-nerved scale at its axil which is called the palea. Between the Pelea and the flowering glume is the true flower consisting of 2 or 3 minutely ciliate scales (Lodicules), and stamens or a pistil or both. Stamens usually 3, rarely 6 or more, hypogynous. Anthers versatile. Ovary 1-celled; styles 2 or 3, clothed with stigmatose hairs. Fruit one seeded caryopsis, with copious, mealy albumen.

----- Thsi family is one of the largest and the most important in the entire vegetable kingdom, and consists of the most economic species such as bamboos, grasses, food cereals as millet, wheat, etc. This large family is divided into 2 series and several tribes, comprising several generas, of which the most important from forest point of view and commonly found in the State are the following.