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inn turbinate, perforated ; calyx and corol, i. e. glumes, : 
Coix, MONOECIA TRIANDRIA, 571 
. 
side of the male pedicel there is a compressed clubbed pedi- 
cel, each elevating the rudiment of a corollet ; between them 
and the involucre is the small valvelet of what I call the 
calyx. Calyx common to the above-mentioned clubbed pedi- 
cels and the proper female flowers, two-valved ; the large one 
ovate, pointed, embracing entirely the proper flower. Corol 
in general six-valved, four on one side, and two on the other, 
diminishing in size gradually. Germ ovate. Style two-cleft, 
as in the genus. 
4, C. aquatica, R. 
pied and creeping from fifty to one hundred feet. 
Leaves linear, most acute, with hispid margins, Male spikes 
drooping, many-flowered ; flowers three-fold, the middle one 
pedicelled. Female corol from six to seven-valved. Seeds 
turbinate, 
A native of the lower parts of Bengal, where it is general- 
ly found floating on lakes, and along their margins to a ve- 
ry great extent, 
Roots, beside the original ones there are many issuing from 
the joints of the old stems. Stems perennial, jointed, round, 
smooth, filled with pith, about as thick as a man’s forefinger, 
floating on lakes or creeping along their margins to a great 
extent ; extreme shoots as well as those from the joints arising 
in an oblique direction to the height of from four to five feet 
above the surface of, the water, and bearing the leaves and 
flowers. Leaves, the lower ones linear-lanceolate, the su- 
perior ones ensiform, all have long, tapering, very acute 
points, with the margins hispid, from one to three feet long, 
and about the middle, where broadest, from an inch to an 
inch and a half wide. Spikes terminal, and from the exterior 
axils, peduncled, solitary or in pairs, drooping, FEMALE 
is generally solitary on the base of the male spikes, 
within the involucre, from: six to seven-valved, with twe 
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