Oryza. HEXANDRIA DIGYNIA. 201 © 
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Dhan the Bengalee name of the plant, and the unhusk- 
ed rice, and Chaul the clean rice. 
Uri the generic Telinga name of the cultivated sorts. 
Urloo the grain in the husk; and Bium the grain, or 
rice. Newaree of the Telingas is the plant in its wild 
State. 
This original stock is always found wild in and about 
the borders of lakes throughout the Circars, is never cul- 
tivated so far as I can learn, because the produce, they 
say, is small, compared to that of the varieties in cultiva- 
tion. 
Root fibrous, annual. Culms numerous, near the base 
floating, or creeping, with the extremities erect, they are 
_ jointed, round and smooth, from two to eight or ten feet 
long, according to the depth of the water. Leaves 
Sheathing, long, and slender, backwardly scabrous; 
mouth of the sheaths crowned with a large, conical, 
membranaceous, lacerated process. This process, ligula, 
or stipule, is common to all the varieties I have examin- 
ed. Panicle terminal, thin, bowing when the seed is 
Weighty. Rachis common, and partial, angular, and his- 
pid. Flowers single, pedicelled. Calyx and corol as 
described in the Genera plantarum, except that here the 
large valye of the calyx ends in a very long hispid, co- 
loured awn. Nectary, two falcate bodies embracing the 
Posterior half of the germ which are common to all the — 
Varieties. Stamens six. 
_ The rice of the wild sort above diactibed, is fetal 
ably white, palatable, and reckoned very wholesome ; so 
that it is carefully gathered, and sells dear. The rich 
esteem ita dainty ; and to make it still more delicate, 
they boil it only in steam, A coarse kind of confec- 
tion, called beat rice, is made of it, and sold in most “ab 
Zars, 
Adepts in eineiitvand in England and Scotland say 
there is no such thing in = as perpetual fertility, 
