^morhiza.] clxxiii. OEAMiNEiE (J. D. Hooker.) 95 



laterally exserted. Grain narrowly oblong, free within the memhranons 



a. ariatata, Nees in Edinb. ISfew PUl Journ. xv. (1833) 380; Steud. 



nil- T- ^5 ^^^- -^»«'»' -P^- Zeyl. 356; Trim. Cat. Ceyl PI. 106; 

 Wkw Grass. K.W. Ind. 12, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 20; Aitchison Gat. 



T{ m t'^' '^^^^- ^"*- n-8638; Wight Cat. n.l739. Leersia aristata, 

 TJ A . "• ^^^ 5 ^""^ff- ^0^^^- iii- 3 ; Steud. I. c. Pharus aristatus, 

 Tau ^ ^^' ^- natans, Herb. Bussel, ejc Wall. I.e. Zizania aristata, 

 ^^nth B^ns. Gram. i. 8, Unum. PI. i. 10. Z. Retzii, ^/^ren*;. .S>«<. ii. 136. 

 ^otamochloa Retzii, Griff. Notul. iii. 3. 8. Ic. PL Asiat. t. 139, f. 147, «fc t. 



jnd rpvT.r i^°^^» Wangbtic Plains, Assam, Chittagwno, Pkgu, the Dbccak 



sJ ^^'^^»IB. Tonkin. 

 node, r^ ^^'"^^ ^ * crow. quill, 12-18 iu. lonff, with feathery whorled roots at the 



Palea a, ll , " '"^'i annulus below the middle. GLume dorsalljr convex ; 



!•« as long, awn longer than the gl. 



1 h 



F-^ 



•p^g 21. XifiPTASPIS, 5r. 



^^WlT^^^p"'^-^ grasses. ieaj«.* npfiAlori, pllinfiV-nhlonc flat, nerrales 



a- ■?«« 



not 



facemp J -^ "»'«"' i^erminal, erect ; branches whorled, long, stiff, oearmg 

 >tioinL? '^xu ^^^ ^^ ^^^eir tips, of which the upper are male. Spikelets 

 <»»ate emnt! k^ ""^^^ ^^O''* Pe^icels. Male, glumes 3, I and II small, 

 8^ott' an ti J' r'-'iervod, spreading; III paleate, hexandrons; filaments 

 *''dalinearli ^V, ^*M. a ^^tricle open at the top, enclosing the ovary 

 %^«* 3 vpr 1 ' ^'^^ *^P of which is exserted. Lodicules small, truncal 

 Species 3 nA ^^^'- ^'■'^^" ^^^e within the inflated accrescent utricle. 

 ^ or*, tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



^''g'petioS'il?^?*^' ^'■- ^" -Se^**- -P^- -^a"- -««'•• 23, t. 6 ; leaves 7-12 in. 

 ^^^> xAnc]J,^l-^^^°^^^^ or oblanceolate, branches of panicle many 

 l<^i. iii. 374 o, ""^'^^tely pyriform. Wall. Cat. n. 8901 ; Miq. Fl. Bid. 

 Ceul. pj ?,:„ *^eud. Sun. Gram. 8 : Thin vjnum. PL Zevl. 357 ; Trim. Cat 



Nees 



Steud 



S SumatrJ'*"'^"''-^*- -^ohosb, Z-«»^'s CoiZertor. Ckylon, rAwat^s.-DisiBiB. 



P^Otftock 



Wan 



'«• -Fem. s^t^eZe^, ^ in. long. 



Cm 



4-10 



Trim 



^,,.^^3 2^3 ft f ^«°*ral Province, alt. 4000 ft., Thwaites. 



?!!'^Hin.. :L'?™ ^Procuinbent base, ieave* U-U 



base, iea 

 broadl7'ovate, acami'n7tc7''"t^ifric]c'i in. long. Oram 







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