Compilation
Bewsia biflora

Tufted perennial arising from a short rhizome; culms 40–90 cm. high, erect. Leaf-blades mostly 10–40 cm. long, 1–5 mm. wide, firm, scabrid, tapering to a filiform tip; ligule 0.5 mm. long, truncate. Inflorescence 7–20 cm. long, made up of 6–15 racemes, each 3–9 cm. long. Spikelets 2–4-flowered with a terminal reduced floret, oblong, 5.5–9 mm. long, reddish brown; glumes lanceolate, 2.5–8 mm. long, glabrous, the upper as long as the lowest lemma; lemmas oblong-elliptic, 4–6 mm. long, pubescent on either side of the midnerve and (at least the lowest) on the lateral nerves below, obtuse or minutely notched at the tip; awn 1–8 mm. long, straight, typically arising 1/3 the length of the lemma from its tip (but varying from 1/5 to 1/2); palea as long as the lemma, sparsely hispidulous on the back, shortly villous on the flanks. Caryopsis linear-oblong, 2 mm. long. Fig. 78, p. 285.