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Leersia, HEXANDRIA DIGYNIA. 207 
leaves smooth, with ample, waved, fringed mouths, be- 
ing a continuation of the leaves themselves. Panicles 
terminal, contracted, subcylindric. Flowers solitary, 
pedicelled. Calyx of two, minute, subulate valvelets. 
Corol two-valved, smooth ; the exterior one boat shaped, 
ang daggered. 
I have not been able to learn that any use is made of 
this sort, nor even to obtain any Asiatic name for it: 
| LEERSIA. Soland. 
Calyx ; glume selpsigcommecan one-flowered. Corel none. 
a L. aristata. fe 
“Leaves lanceolate, Panicles diverging. Flowers pair- 
ed, exterior valve of the calyx awned. 
Nir-valli-pullu. Rheed. Mal. 10. t. 12. 
Beng. Junglee dal. 
Found growing on the surface of déexs, standing, sweet 
water, in the vicinity of Calcutta. Flowering time the 
cold season. Compare with Pharus aristatus. 
. Clums jointed, long, floating on, and- in the water; 
emitting numerous roots from the joints; apices above 
the water sub-erect. Sheaths much longer than the 
joints, and about as long as the leaves. ' Leaves sheath- | 
ing, sublanceolate, rather obtuse ; cordate at the base ; 
Striated and clouded with dark fib dhiall spots | Kbbve, 
scabrous. © Panicles thin. Flowers paired on pedicels 
of very unequal lengths, all hermaphrodite. Calyx ; glume 
one-flowered, two-valved ; valvelets long, hispid, about 
five-nerved the exterior ending in a pretty long straight 
arista, Coro! none. ‘Nectary two-leaved, obcordate, 
crenulate, Stamens six. Germ ovate. Styles two. Stig- 
mas plumose, ©’ ae 
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2.Lciliata,R. tou 
* Leaves linear-lanceolate, margins: bachaily isp 
