9 GRAMINE. 
tactu scabra; margine subsimplici scabro. Spice pacue 
distantes in paniculam nutanti alternatim disposite, subse- 
cunda. Flores solitarii, pedicellati, et articulati in apicem 
pedicelli curvati cyathiformem. 
Glumzs о. nisi cupula membranacea annulifersal apicis 
pedicelli. Paleæ 2 (dextra sinistraque) chartacee, carinate ; 
compressz, brevissime stipitate exterior 5 nervis; nervo 
medio (carina) et 2 marginalibus, denticulato-ciliatis, 2 latera- 
libus intermediis subglabris obtuse mucronata, mucrone seti- 
gero interior subobliqua, 3 nervis; carina denticulato-ciliata, 
nervis 2 lateralibus, glabris, apice mucronate setigera. 
Lodiculz 2, carnosze, acinaciformes, secus marginem pos- 
ticum vel interiorem гесе; exteriorem convexz. Stam. 6, 
antheris longe exsertis. Ovarium ovato-oblongum glabrum., 
tyli 2. Stigmata 2 plumosa, divisionibus ramosis, ratione 
а. Palea exterior 5 nervis. Pl. CXXXIX. Fig. 146. 
b. Palea interior 3 nervis. 
c. c. Lodicule 
d. Stamina. 
e. Stigmata. 
Legi in aquosis prope Jumalpore, eastern part of Bengal, 
September 18th, 1835. 
eo sensu glumarum defectu tantum differt ab Oryza, certe 
non Pharus et vix Zizania, vix congener Leersiz aristate, 
Roxburghii Fl. Indica 2. 
2. Leersia cillaris Retz proxim an idem; Pale: secus cari- 
nas ciliate, exterior margines secus hispidule ceterum glabra. 
carinatz, арегіге, exteriore in aristam productà. Lodicule 2. Stamina 
6. Styli 2. Stigmata plumosa. 
o +t Sader 
Gramen fluitans ope vaginarum cellalosarum, "e cespitosum, Folia 
lata ; ligula absoleta. Panicula effusa erecta; pedicelli infra medium 
constricti. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 5, p. 571- 1836, 
