6. Abundinella.] 97. GR AMINES. [9. Zea, 



It is less common than the last. 



3. A. tenella, Nees.. is an annual grass with very small spikelets 

 under ^j''. 



4. A. Walliehii, Nees., is a rather stout perennial 1-3 ft. very dis- 

 tinct from the others in the short stiff 1-3-nate branches of the panicle 

 rarely exceeding V long with an angled scabrouB rachis, and in Gl. IV 

 being nearly or quite awnless, or with a short stiff straight awn. Spikelets 

 close oiliate. 



Oryza sativa, L. Baba, K. (there are various names for different 

 races), is the rice plant which occurs apparently (or truly ?) wild in marshy 

 localities. The Kola distinguish numerous distinct races but classify 

 them generally into Oora or upland, and beta or lowland rice. The 

 spikelets of Oryza are 1-fld., oblong and laterally compressed with only 

 2-3 glumes. Gl. Ill much the largest, strongly 3-5-nerved, sometimes 

 awned. St. 6. 



O. granulata, Nees et Am., is a forest grasB with awnless spikelets 

 in simple racemes and Gl. Ill glabrous and granulate. 



Cok Lachryma-Jobi, L. Horeng, M. ; Jargadi, 



Gargadi, 8. 



A stout very leafy grass easily recognised in fruit by the 

 oval shining white or grey bodies which are }-J" long 

 ari'd of almost stony hardness. These are bracts -which enclose 

 the fern, spikelets and through which the male portion of the 

 spike projects, they are green and coriaceous in flower. 



Common in watery plaoes and also among rooks on northern slopes. 

 Fls., Fr. Nov.-Feby- 



L. 4-12'' by V or more broad M. spikelets 2-3-nate at the nodes of 

 the rachis, one sessile and two pedicelled with 4 glumes of which III and 

 IV are 3-androus or empty. 



Variable. Prain distinguishes C. gigantea, Roxb. (reduced to a 

 variety in F-B.L), as a separate species distinguished by the large size 

 ( sometimes 15 ft.) and the numerous male spikelets with Gl. I broadly 

 winged. 



Horses are fond of the leaves, but soon tire of it. A bad fodder. 



Zea Mays, L. Jondra, M. Maize, Indian Corn, a native of America, is 

 cultivated in the rains. The spikelets are uniseiual, the males in terminal 

 panicles, the F. spikelets are sessile densely crowded in vertical series on 

 the thick rachis of axillary spikes which am enclosed by several bracts or 

 3pathes from the top of which the several very long styles and 2-fid Btig- 

 mas project. The fruits become exserted from the small glumes as they 

 enlarge. 



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