I 



100 CLXXiii. GRAMiN'EiT;. (J, D. Hooker.) [Coix. 



thinner; IV paleate. Stamirjodes mixMite. LodicuIesO. Ovary ovoid, ^ij^es 

 2, free slender. Grain orbicvilar, ventrally furrowed, enclosed in the 

 hardened globose ovoid or cylindric involucre- 



C. lachryma-Jobi, TAnn, Sp, PI 972; C. Lacbryina, Linn. Si/st 

 Ed. X.1261 ; Lamk, 111 t. 750; Kuntk Enum. PL i. 20, Suppl 16. t. 3, 4; 

 Beauv. AgrosL t. 24, f. 5; Bot. Mag. t. 2479; Steud. Si/n. Gram. ^\ 

 WeU. Phi/L GaTiar.t. 242, 213; Roxh. FL Lid. in. 568 ; Grah. Gat. Bomb. 

 PI. 240; Wall Cat. n. 862:^; Griff. NotuLin. 10; Thw. Enum. PI. ZeyL 

 375; TrimenCat. Ceyl PI. 106; Bah. & Gibs. Bomh.Fl.289; Aim 

 Cat. Panjah. Pi. 157; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 11, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind* 

 18; Miq. FL Ind. Bat iii. 476, t. 41 B. C. agreatis, Lour. FL Cochnch. 

 551. 0. arundinacea, Lamk. Encycl. iii. 422. 0. exaltata, Jacq. Eclog- 

 Gram. 6, t. 40. C. ovata, Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. iv, 342, 0. peodula, 

 SaVsb. Prodr. 28. C. puellarum, Balans, in Journ. de Bot. iy, (Pans, 

 1890), 77. C. 8tigmato<^a, Koch ^ Bouche, Ind, Sem. Sort. BeroL (1855) 9. 

 Lithagrostis Lacryma-Jobi, Gsertn. Fntct. i. 7, t. i. f. 10. 



Thronghont the hotter and damper parts of India, wild or cultivated (not wild 

 in Ceylon). — Distrib. Trop. Asia, cult, in Africa and America. 



Stem 3-5 ft., stout, leafy, rooting nt the lower nodes, ieaves 4-18 by 1-2 >"•> 

 wjivy, base cordate ; sheaths smooth ; ligule very short, glabrous. Spikes 2-3 iii-i 

 suberect, peduncled ; male spike'ets 3, or 2 with an imperfect one, J in, long; g'- 

 narrowly winged. Fruit ovoid or spherical, ^-^ in. long, osseous, bluish gray. 



Vae. giganUa, Stapf mss. ; perennial, attaining 15 ft. high, leaves narrofff 

 more strict, male spikelets 3-nate at the internodes, ofteu forming long ^1^^ 1, 

 drooping spikes, gl. I broadly winged, fruit as in the type, C. gigantea, ^^^ '*.'' 

 L^d.i\\. 569; Wall. Cat. n. 8624, 8^25. Aitch. Cat. Panjah. PI. 157; I>«^''*; 

 Grass. N.W. Ind. 11; Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 18. C. Hngulata, Hack, in ®**\/i^' 

 Zeitschr. (1891) h.—Rheede Hort. Mai. xii. t. 70.— Hot valleys from the ^"^ 

 Provinces to Assam and southwards to the Malay Peninsula and Travancore.-^ 

 Affghanistan. -, 



Yar. sfenocarpa, Stapf mss. ; fruit subcylindric ^^-^ in. long white osseous* ^ 

 stenocarpa, Balams. I. c. C. tubulosa, Back, in Fvgl, Bot. Jahrh. iii. 260;^ 

 Upper Assam, Bruce. Mergui, Griffith. Karen Hills, Wallich.— Tonkin, >• 

 Guinea, 



Yak, Ma-yuev, Stapf mss.; annual, fruit crustaceous or chartnceous. ^' j 

 ynon, Eoman. in Bull Soc. Acclim. Paris. Ser, 3, viii. (1881) 442. Sikkim an 

 the Khaaia hills, ascending to 5000 ft. (cult.). Burma, IFa*«.— Cochinchiua, Borneo, 

 Ins. Philipp. 



DOUBTFITI. SPECIES, 



C. IQUATICA, Roxh. Fl.Ind. iii. 571; floating and creeping from ^O-lOO "^ 

 leaves linear most acute, margins hispid, male spikes drooping many-fld., ^"^V- 

 3-foId, middle one pedicelled fern., corolla 6-7-valved, seeds turbinate.*' " 1'*^** ' j 

 in margins of lakes in Lower Rengal," Eoxh, This species is unknown to m^ * 

 to the officers of the Calcutta Bot. Gardens. 



I 



W-. 



29. POXiTTOCA, Br. 



Tall branching grasses ; nodes bearded ; 



fascicWj 



flg. branches fascu:.- 

 r panicled, bisexual a^^ 



spathaceouB. Leaves long, flat. Spikes solitary or panicled, bisexna» 

 fem. below, or the upper male only, racbis jointed ; spikelets geifli'' j 

 a sessile and a pedicelled. Male spikelets lanceolate, 2-fld. ; K'^'i^te, 

 many-nerved, 2 keeled; II 5-7-nerved; III and IY hyaline, V^!^ys 

 triaTidrons; anthers very long. Lodicules cuneate. Fem. ^.P} m 

 imbricate, the pedicelled imperfect, its pedicel confluent^ ^.a ^^i 

 rachis; gls, of sessile spikelet 4, I oblong, coriaceous, margins luiJ^ 



