Coix. MONOECIA TRIANDBIA. 569 



and there cordate. Spikes axillary and terminal, several 

 together, from two to three inches lonf>-, sub-erect, pedun- 

 cled. Male flowers on the short, nodding, solitary, mealy 

 spikes, from the apices of the female Howers they are in pairs; 

 one sessile, the other peduncled. Calyx; glume two-flower- 

 ed, two-valved; the exterior valvelet oval, with broad mar- 

 gins. Carol two-valved. Nectary two scales embracing the 

 base of the filaments. Female flowers solitary. Calyx 

 or involucre one-valved, entire, with a perforation at top for 

 the pedicel of the male spike and stigmas to pass through. 

 Corol; glume four-valved; valvelets fleshy, on one side of the 

 corol are lodged two somewhat clavate bodies each support- 

 ing the rudiments of the corollet. Germ ovate. Pericarp no 

 other than the calyx or involucre, now white and of a bony 

 hardness. 



2. C. barhata. Roxb. 



Pedicels short, jointed, with a boat-shaped, cuspidate 

 spathe at the joint. Male spikes erect; flowers paired ; ca- 

 hjx hairy. Female corol four-valved. Seeds oval. 



Deng. Gurgwr. 



Teling. Ghella-Gadee. 



Is found in rice fields, and on the banks of water courses, 

 in a moist, rich soil in the Northern Circars. 



Roots annual. Culms erect and near the top, bowing a lit- 

 tle, ramous, jointed, smooth, sulcated, not piped, but replete 

 with a soft spongy substance, from three to six feet high, 

 and as thick as a common quill ; joints sometimes bearded. 

 Leaves sheathing, from two to three feet long, narrow keel- 

 ed ; margins armed with small prickles, on the upper side 

 sometimes a few, sometimes numerous, stift', Avhite hairs, 

 moulhs of the sheaths slightly bearded. Spikes immeroufi, 

 pedicelled, terminal, and from the exterior axills, forming al- 

 together a large linear panicle, collected in fascicles of from 

 two to six on a common peduncle, and embraced by a com- 

 mon spathe. Pedicels compressed, jointed near the top and 



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