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narrowed at the base, entire or minutely serrulate, glabrous 

 above or at first appressed-sericeous, glabrous or thinly ap- 

 pressed-sericeous and opaque or glaucescent beneath ; stipules 

 ovate or oblong deciduous. 



Flowers dioecious, achlamydeous, in axillary pedunculate 

 elongate cylindrical occasionally rather lax silky or pubescent 

 catkins ; peduncle with or without a few reduced leaves : STAM- 

 INATE flowers with usually six to eight stamens in the axil of 

 minute ovate bracts ; filaments filiform, anthers minute, ro tun- 

 date, two-celled ; glands two, anterior and posterior, minute, 

 fleshy, inserted on the receptacle : PISTILLATE flowers in the 

 axil of minute silky or tomentose bracts ; ovary shortly pedi- 

 cellate, lanceolate-ovoid, pubescent or glabrous ; glands fleshy, 

 embracing the pedicel ; stigmas two, subsessile ; ovules few, on 

 two parietal placentas. 



Fruit a two-valved capsule, equalling or exceeding the 

 pedicel ; seeds few (about four), comose, exalbuminous. 



CULTIVATED RICE: Oryza sativa. 

 Class, Monocotyledons. Division^ Glumiferas. 



An annual cereal with an erect or slightly drooping narrow 

 paniculate inflorescence. 



Root fibrous. 



Stem {culm) erect, or prostrate below and rooting at the 

 nodes, jointed, terete, striate, glabrous. 



Leaves cauline, alternate, sheathing, linear finely acuminate, 

 longitudinally-nerved, striate, more or less distinctly scabrous 

 with minute setae directly forwards ; ligule prominent, lanceo- 

 late, membranous or scarious. 



Inflorescence a panicle, narrow with short ascending lateral 

 branches or more diffuse, branches wiry, angular or sulcate, 

 hispid, or scabrous ; spikelets pedicellate one-flowered oblong 

 compressed. 



Outer Glumes two, minute, nearly equal, subulate, three to 

 five times shorter than the spikelet. 



