568 MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. Coix, 
less. Corol; glume awnless. Female calyx; glume two- 
valved. Corol; glume two-valved. Style single, filiform. 
Seed immersed in an oblong receptacle. 
Z. mays. Willd. iv. 200. 
Mays, Maize, or Indian corn, 
Teling. Moka, Joona. 
Beng. Bhoota or Mukka, 
Cultivated in various parts of India in gardens, and only 
as a delicacy; but not any where onthe continent of India 
so far as I can learn, as an extensive crop. 
: COIX. Schreb. gen. N. 1405. 
Male flowers for the most part ona separate spike. Calyx 
two-valved, two-flowered, awnless. Corol, glume awnless. 
Female flowers for the most part solitary. Calyx or involu- 
cre one-valved, one-flowered, valve becoming an ossified 
shining covering for the seed. Corol various; glumes awn- 
less. 7 
1. C. laeryma. Willd. iv. 202. 
Leaves at the base cordate; pedicels naked, not jointed. 
Male spikes nodding ; flowers paired, Calyces smooth, ovate. 
Lithagrostis lacryma Jobi, Gert, Sem. i, 7. t. 1. 
Cafre or Catri Conda. Rheed. Mal. xii. t. 70. 
_. Lachryma Jobi Indica, Rumph. Amb. v. t. 75.f. 2. 
Beng. Gurgur or Kanch, 
I have only found this plant in Bengal ; what Dr. Konig 
and I took for it on the coast, is evidently another species 
which I now call C. Barbata, It is common on the rice 
grounds and in ditches, and grows to the height of from four 
to six feet, 
_ Culms annual, ramous, smooth, emitting roots from the low- 
er joints, Leaves sheathing, from four to eighteen inches long, 
and from one to two broad ; the broadest part near the base, 
