Garnotia.| GRAMINACEAE, 513 
, Susrrise IV. ORYZEAE. 
Spikelets hermaphrodite, rarely unisexual, in panicles or rarely in simple 
spikes; the rhachis of the inflorescence not articulate. Empty glumes 2, 
membranous, the lo often very small or wanting. Flowering glume 
chartaceous or coriaceous. Palea 1—3-nerved. Stamens mostly 6 
15. ORYZA, L. 
Spikelets 1- flowered, flat, artioniste, on short pedicels along the flexuose 
mes 
wering 
Stamens 6. Styles short, ot Grain enclosed in the hardened glume 
and palea, but free from 
A genus of very few species, from the warmer regions of the Old and New World. 
71. 0. sativa, is Kunth, Enum. Pl. I, 7. — Stems creeping or floating 
at the base, mee to several feet. Leaves long and very scabrous; 
the ligule scarious. Panicle narrow, oars 6—12‘ long. Spikelets ovate- 
oblong, 3—4“. Em rite glumes scarcely 1/2“, and awnless. Flowering glume 
atagunend 5-nerved, with ciliate keel, thioaély awned, closely embracing 
e equally long and 3-nerved palea. 
The eogott raed of the Rice plant Ce from the year 1856; it is chiefly carried on on 
the north side of Oahu and on Kauai. 
Susrrisne V. TRISTEGINEAE. 
Spikelets nearly as in Paniceae, but the flowering glume with a twisted 
termin wn 
16. wspcaceiaite Fone 
Straight or tek to a minute Pals ‘awnless, us 
2 auricles at the base. Grain eaeoehd: in the slightly stiffened glume 
and palea. 
A small genus which extends over India, S. China, Japan, and parts of Polynesia — Tahiti. 
1 andwicensis, sp. n. — Tufted. Stems simple, 1—2 ft. long, 
generally decumbent in their lower halves and curved, with geniculate 
when the stem is curved, the uppermost one near the p: 
—7' xX 2-3", flat or esnvebube: rough near 
2. Panicle narrow wand-like, 
angular and scabrous, one to three at the lowest nodes, lo ong 0 ess, 
Hillebrand, Flora of the Hawaiian Islands. 
