A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

by K. Rangachari; C. Tadulinga Mudaliyar

Fig. 52.—Transverse section of a portion of the leaf of Panicum repens. × 120
1. Motor cells; 2. stomata; 3. sclerenchyma; 4. chlorophyllous layer.

All the vascular bundles in the leaves of Aristida setacea have broad sclerenchymatous bands on both the sides. Besides these bands arranged like a girder above and below each bundle, there are on the lower side bands of sclerenchyma. So the sclerenchyma becomes almost continuous on the lower side.

Fig. 53.—Transverse section of the leaf margin of Panicum repens. × 180
1. Sclerenchyma; 2. stomata; 3. chlorophyllous layer.