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12. Spixifex, L. 



Stiff bushy or creeping grasses, with long stiff glaucous rigid 

 arrow leaves. ]\Ialc panicle branched of umbellate with membranous 

 bracts at base. Spikelets sessile or branches of the umbel, rather large 

 sessile or subsessile, 2 flowered. Glumes membranous not awned. 

 Glumes I and II subequal lanceolate empty. Glumes III and IV 

 paleate longer acuminate cuspidate triandrous. Anthers long oblong. 

 Female inflorescence of one or two large heads of radiating bracts 

 with very long points. Glumes as in male but rather larger, III 

 empty or triandrous, IV female. Lodiculcs large, 2. Styles 2, long. 



Species 4. All but one Australian. 



S. sQi'AKROsus, L. Mant. II. 300. Stems ascending about a foot 

 glaucous. Leaves narrow 3-7 inches long subterete at top pungent 

 i-ocurved, sheaths broad truncate imbricating, all silky pubescent. 

 Male inflorescence of 3 corymbs, the terminal one largest, 3 inches 

 long -1 inches Avide branches scabrid terminated by an acute point. 

 Spikelets nearly ^ inch long pubescent pale. Gl. I, II 3-T nerved, 

 lanceolate. Gl. Ill and IV longer paleae nearly as long, hairy along 

 the keel. Female heads large with bracts eventually very long o\er (j 

 inches slender scabrid. Spikelets glabrous. Glumes all lanceolate 

 pubescent at the tip. Lamai'ck. Illustr, t. 840. Kunlli. Enum. PI. 

 I. i;o. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 111. 474. Hook. hi. I.e. G3. SHim 

 yijiiiife.r, L. Mant. I. 84. 



Jolior : Jambu Larang (I-i'eilding) ; Pahang: Sungei ^leang (Pid- 

 ley 1527), Kuala Pahang: Cherating Piver. Distrib. India, Siam, 

 Ceylon, Java, China. 



In sand along the shore, on the East Coast. The fiiiiting heads 

 become detached when ripe and are blown along the sand on the points 

 of the bracts in a very curious way. 



Tribe II. Ouyzeae. ]'» 



13. Oryza, L. 



Tall annual or perennial grasses. Leaves linear, long. Spike- 

 lets 1 flowered in racemes or loose panicles, disarticulating from the 

 pedicels laterally strongly compressed often awned. Glumes I to 

 III developed, I and II very minute or absent, III half oblong hard 

 keeled 5 veined, margin thickened awnless, or awned, awn sti'aight 

 scabrid. Palea linear as long coriaceous edges membranous. Stamens 

 (j. Grain narrowly oblong compressed closely invested by the glume 

 or adnate to them. 



Species o or 6. Tro|)ical Asiatic. Padi {0. salini, L. ) ;) native 

 of India is exteusi^ ely cultivated here, but 1 have nut seen it wild. 



