Ory^^a.] oixxiir. gramine;e (J. D. Hooker.) 93 



^'°?? or twice as long as the gl, Kunth Rev!s. Gram. i. 185, t. A, Enum. 



ol'J'J'^P^^- ^- O. officinalis, Wall. & montana, Ham. Wall. Gat. 

 n. S635, 8633. 0. platyphylla, Sch.f. Syst. vii. II. 1364. 



Im valleys in Sikkim, Assam, Silhet, Cachae, Monhepobe, Central IifDiA, 



«nd BIIEMA.-DISTEIB. Trop. As. Afr. aud Amer. 



items up to 6 ft., tufted, as thick as a swan's quill below. Leaves 1-2 ft. by 

 t it in., nearly smooth, many -nerved ; midrib slender, shining beneath; sheath 

 ray iOQg. Branches of panicle 4-8 in., very slender; pedicels and branchlets 

 "Ksrded at the base. SpiWefs J-J in. ; gl. Ill and palea hairy. 



v,n^i,.'' <?'• '^^^^ II minute or 0. O. sativa, Thwaites Enum, PL Zeyl. 

 «'• U. aativa var. coUica, rWm. toss.— Ceylon ; hills about Colombo and in the 

 Western Provinces. 



So. 



Nees et Am. in WiaU Cat. n. 2354, ex Wall 



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Gm 7 ^i-™^J^"Tie or 0, III and pal 



«eS J 7 ^^^^ormis, Herb. Ham. ex Wall. I. p. 6. triandra. Herb. Heyne 



Sat If'J^o' J*^^^ Meyeriana, Zoll. &■ Mor. Verz. 103 ; Mij. Ft. InA. 

 -""f • m. d73 ; Steud. I. c. 3. 



and iJZr^^^rV SiKKiM HiMAXATA, the Kqasia, and Behar HitLS. Matabab 



Ceylon; at Rambukkana, rnwiew.— Distbib. 



"erves dir ?" *^"*^«''' tufted. Leaves 3-6 by \ in., thin, midrib beneath and 

 peduncle. ," I '• .^'^ ^^^^ ^«"&- Racemes very slender, on very long slender 

 l>«<iicell3,' H in f ''^"°"*' '■"'■^'i' ^'^^ a sl'ort branch at the base. Spikelets shortly 



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^pleSL****^®^*' -ffoo^./; very slender, leaves thin nerves distinct, 



1 and if ' ^?''^^'' "^'^^ solitary alternate branches, apikelets ^i m., gls. 



^orsallv L! i"^^^*^^? ' ^^^ <i^'nV cbartaceous scabrid narrowly oblong 



^^ J spiunlose-cihate narrowed into an awn of about its own length. 



«t^*i?ff '^^^^* ' Pahang, in dense thickets, Ridley. —TiisTmB. Borneo. 

 smooth, shpaiv.'/®'*^' ^^ ''"*^^ »» a crow's quill below. Leaves 12 by f in., nearly 

 *^ slendr i".^' «'ender. Panicle 12 in. ; brauches sometimes 6 in. and rachia 

 ■*« 0. coarcf'ata ' ^'" * •°— Habit of 0. granulata, but spikelets more 



^andate.'a^n'I?'®!***' ^°*^- ^^- -^w^- "• 206 ; tall, stout, leaves coriaceons 

 •^Diclegnin,^^ , ^Pinulose-serrate nerves obscure, ligule very short, 

 ^^ narrow! v^i' ^-^.'^'^^^ ^^^-&d., spikelets i-§ in., gl. I and II setaceous, 

 , short ricrii ,"r^"^ qaite smootli dorsally winged tip narrowed into 

 i^^-Asiat l^^A^V^ «™«oth. Wall. Cat. n. 8646; Griff. Notul m. 8, 

 ^"'ui. I c •o-,^*^, f. 1 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 371. O. triticoides, Griff. 



S^HDEHB '^P''^^^^^ coarctatum. Griff. I. c. 



S<en» 4-6^ft°®' ^"milton, Roxburgh, &c. Scind, at Shikarpur {Herb. Duthie). 

 .^ Lea^i: r^,^i ^'■°'" a stout creeping rhizome, branching, smooth, hard, 

 5? "nd ^^^dr K ?^ ^^ i-^ '«•> uneq«al.8ide<l, rigid, smooth or scaberulous, 

 S"""^- PaXl °. '^"'^^' ''P« 'ong slender ; sheath long, undulately reticulate, 

 Sf"' clavate „f /r^ ^"•' ™chis and branches trigonous, stiff, quite smooth; 

 !r^^««« laxlv i^K • ^''P *"'^ t>'ea contracted below the dilated cupular tip. 

 J^'' ' in stJoS"'^^' "8»^^y cbartaceous ; gl. I and II not half as bng as III, 

 1-* fout,dK>^'''^'Iy often obliquely compressed, keeled, keel dilated above 

 ^'^O'ls. as ln„ °^' .obscurely 7-9-uerved, lateral nerves submargmal ; palea 



A 'o°g as the gl., oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, 5-nervcd, uiediau 



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