M J 



102 CL:sxnL GBAMiNE-ffi. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pohjtoca 



pedicelled apikelets adnate to the rachis; fem. spikelets rather longer, gl. of pediccUed 

 or miaate. 



6. P. barbata^ Stapfmss.; branclies of infl. many umbelled, spathes 

 ^in. at length open, fem. spikelets solitary, margins of gl. 1 keeled tip 

 entire. C. arundinacea, Koen. ex Willd. Sp. PL iv.203 {non Lamk,). Coix 

 barbata, Eoxb, FL Ind. iii. 569 ; Wall. Cat. n. 862G ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl 289. C. crypsoides, C. MuelL in Bot Zeit. xix. (1861) 334. C. gigantea, 

 Herb. Buss, ex Wall. Gai. I: c. C. Koenigii, Spreng Syst i. 228; Thw. 

 Enum. PL Zeyh 357. Chionachne barbata, Br, in Benn, PL Bar. Jav. 

 18; Trim. Cat. Cet/L PL 106; Aitchl^. Cat Punjab. PL 157; Duthie 

 Gras^. N.W. Ind. 11, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 19. Ch. Koenigii, Thw. Enum. 

 PL Zeyl 369. 



Hot and darap parts of India, from the Panjab to Assam and Munnepore, and 

 southward to Cetlon. — Distbib. Java. 



Steins 3-5 ft., glabrous or with the leaves and sheaths bristly with tubercle- 

 ba.*»ed hairs. Leaves 1-2 ft. by ^-f in., finely acnminate, margin thiikened. Spi^s 

 l-lj in., rachis usually glabrous. Male sjpikelets i in,, glabrous or softly pilose, 

 keels ciliolate ;/em. } iu., glabrous, pale ; gl. of pedicelled minute or 0. 



6. P. punctata, Stapfmss. ; branches of infl. few unequal, terminal 

 subumbellate, outer spathes long green, gl. I of fem. f^pikelets constrictea 

 in the middle, then suddenly dilated into an ovoid obtuse claw, keels 

 broad. Scleracbne punctata, Br. in Benn. PL Bar. Jav. 15, t. 4. Chion- 

 achne Massii, Balans. in Journ. de Bot. (Paris, 1890), 78. Coix sulcata, 

 Herb. BottL 



The Deccan Pkninsula, iZottZer.— Distbib, Java, Tonkin? 



Stem slender, branched, glabrous, and haves glabrous or sparsely hairy, i^a"^' 

 6-8 by \ in., linear-lanceolate, fltccid, Spathes of lower outer branches long, li»^' 

 ccolate. Spikes ^ in.; male spikelets one pair, | in., glabrous ; fem. i in., pale; 

 gl. of pediCtiUcd minute. 



29*. Z£A. Linn 



A tall stout annual monoecious grass. Leaves broad, flat. jS'ptXreZe/' 

 unisexual, males in terminal racemed spikes; fem, in solitary axillary 

 stout sheathed spikes, rachis thick, inarticulate, spongy. Male spikelets 

 2-fld.,2-nate, a sessile and a pedicelled at each of the alternating teeth oi 

 the inarticulate rachis; glumes 4, acute; I and II subequal, membranons, 

 empty; I enclosing the hyaline paleate III and IV. Lodicules fleshy- 

 Stamens 3, anthers linear. Fem. spikelets 1-fld., sessile, densely ciowded 

 in many vertical series on the thick cylindric rachis ; glumes 4, membra- 

 nous, I and II very broad, obtuse or emarginate ; III hyaline, paleate, 

 empty; IV hyaline, often 2-fld. Lodicules 0. Ovary obliquely ovoia, 

 plano-convex ; style very long, 2-fid, arms papillose. Grain large, sub- 

 globose or flattened, surrounded by the marcescent gls» 



K. BSays, Linn. Sp. PL 971 ; Beauv. AgrosL 136, t. 24, f. 3 ; X«^* 

 Enum.PLi. 19, Suppl 15; T. Nees Gen. FL Germ. Monocot.i. n. 3,*>- 

 Bonafous Hist. Nat Mays {Parb, 1836), t. 1-19 ; Doell in MarL Fl Br^' 

 ii. 11,30, 1. 11; i2ox6. F^. Ind iii. 349; Grafe. Ca^JBomJ.P^. 240; Bum 

 Field ^ Oard. Crops. 25, t. 5; Miq. FL Ind. BaL iii. 477. Z. alba, 

 amencana & vulgaris, MilL Gard. Diet. Ed. viii. n. 1, 2, 3. Z. segetali^i 

 Salisb. Prodr. 28. Mays zea, Ga^rtn. FrucL i. 6, t. i. f. 9, 



Cultivated throughout the hotter parts of India 



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