92 CLXXiii. GUAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [TJiuarea. 



ciliate. Fruit i in. long and broad, trigonously obconic or turbinate, obscurely 

 ribbed, with a deep depression on one side of the crown. 





y. 







Tribe II. Oryze.e. (See p. 3.) 



18. ORYZAy Linn. 



Leafy tall grasses. Leaves long, flat. Spikelets jointed on the slender 

 branches of an elongate rarely Bpiciform panicle, 1-fld., oblong, laterally 

 compressed, pedicels annular at the top. Glumes 2-3, 1 and II much the 

 smallegt, empty, scale or bristle-like, rarely 0; III chartaceous, obtuse 

 acute or awned, strongly 3-5-nerved ; palea as long as the gl., keeled. 

 Lodicules 2, 2-lobed, rarely entire. Stamens 6, anthers linear. Stpes 

 short, free ; stigmas laterally exserted. Grain narrow, free or adnateto 

 the gl. and palea, — Species 5-6, tropical. 



The gl. IV of most authors, is here considered to be a palea, as is indicated by 

 the positions of the lodicules and stamens in relation to it, 



1. O. sativa, Linn. Sp. PI 333 ; ligule long 2-partite, spitelets loosely 

 panicled ^-^ in. long, gl. I and II f^ the length of III lanceolate, 

 III hispid above dorsally spinescently ciliate, awn very long. Gserti^' 

 Fruct. ii. 5, t. 80, f. 5; Host Gram. Anstr. iv. t. 325; Lamk, EncycL 

 t. 2ti4; Kunth Enum. PL i. 7, SuppL4^i T. Nees Gen. FL Germ. Monocot. 

 i 2 ; Steud. Srjn. Gram. 3 ; Boxb. Fl Ind. ii. 200 ; Wall. Cat. n. 86J^ ; 

 Griff. NotulAii. 5, Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 139, f. 149; Dah. 8f Gibs. Bomb.^J- 

 Suppl. 98 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 12, Field & Gard. Crops. 15, t. 4, Fod(^' 

 Grass. AT. Jnd. 20 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat iii. 368 ; Doell in Mart. Fl Bras. 

 ii. II. 7, t. 1 ; Bentk. FL Austral vii. 550. O. fatua, Koen. ex Tnn. '^ 

 Mem. Acad. Petersh. Ser. 6, ii. II. (1839) 177. O. rufipo^on, Griff. H^-^^ 

 & t. 145, f. 2, & t. 139, f. 147. O. palustris, Salisb. Prodr, 25, O. repens 

 A palustris, Eerh. Ham. ex Wall L c. F. ex Steud. I c. 0. segetaliS) 

 Buss, ex Wall I. c. B. 0. sorghoides, Sleud. L c. 



Indigenous in marshes of Rajpootana, Sikkim, Bengal, the KhasiA Hil^^' 

 Centhal India, The Circars and Pegu. Ceylon, Ferguson.— Distrib. Aostrai. 

 trop. 



Annual, Stems 2-10 ft., creeping or floating. Leaves 1-2 ft. by f-J i". or 

 more,^ flat, striated, l-nerved, scaberulous; sheaths smooth. Panicle at ^^^^^ 

 drooping. Spikelets not imbricating, awn 3-5 in. long, yellow or reddish, s^^"^"?;^ 

 I have described above the plant which Roxburgh and other Indian authors coQ^Jti.^^ 

 to be the indigenous Rice, and who have collected it as such in the localu^J^ 

 mentioned above, as I have in hot valleys of Sikkim and the Khasta HilH- 

 resembles in all essentials a commonly cultivated awned sort. I have s^^'?^. 

 specimens of Griffith's 0. rujipogony wbich he describes as a very different-loofcitig 

 pliint, but his characters are not diagnostic, and a memorandum by Munro (in Her • 

 Kew) states that he can find no real distinction for it. For the cultivated varietie 

 of Rice in India, see Watt. " Dictionary of the Economic Products of India," ▼o^* " 

 —The awcless O. denudata, Steud. Norn. Ed. I. 577 (0. mutica. Steud. 1<^''J^^{^ 

 Ft. Cochinch. I 267, 0. sativa, vat. subrautica, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. iii. 36yj, 

 a cultivated form. 



horti 



2. O. latlfolia, Desv. Journ. BoL i. (1813) 77; ligule very sdoi-. 

 branches of panicle very long often whorled, spikelets snbimbricate obion» 

 beaked, gi. I and II = ^-^ HI lanceolate, IH hispid finely granulate aff 



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