94 OLXXIII. GBAMINE^ (J. D. Hooker.) [Orysa. 



nerve faint, two intermediate very stout, lateral more slender. Lodicules large, 

 membranous, subquadrate or trapeziform. Anthers very long and slender. Ovary 

 narrow, elongate. Grain not seen. A very remarkable species. In Gen. Plant (iii. 

 1117) this is by oversight stated to be Himalayan. 



19. LEERSIA, Sw. 



Characters of Orzya,, but empty gls. ; fl. gls. thinner not awned, 

 keel and margin ciliate; stamens 6, 3 or fewer. Species 7, chiefly 

 American. 



1. Xi. hexandra, Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 21, Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 131 ; 

 panicle contracted, stamens 6. Fl. Dan. t. 1744; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 6; 

 Host Gram. Austr. t, 35 ; Engl. Bot. t. 2908 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. i. t. 52 ; 

 T. Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. Monocot. i. n. 1 ; Wall. Gat. n. 8637; Thw. Enum. 

 356 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 106; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 12; Miq. Fl Ind. 

 Bat. iii. 367; Benin. Fl. Austral, vii. 549. L. australis. Br. Prodr. 210; 

 Kunth 1. c. 6. IK ciliata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 207 ; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab. PI. 

 157 ; Duthie I. c., tfodd. Grass. N. Ind. 21. L. ciliaris^IM/f. Notul. iii. 2. 

 L. glaberrima, Trin. Oryz. 7 ; Miquel I. c. 363! L mexicana. H. B. & K. 

 Nov. Gen. & Sp. i. 195 ; Kunth I. c. 6, & ii. 2, Suppl. 2 ; Revis. Gram. 178, 

 t. 1. Zizania ciliata, Spreng. Syst. ii. 136; Kunth Revis. Gram. i. 8; 

 Griff. Nofufr^iTTT' Orvja_jcilita, Herb. Ham. ex Wall. Cat. n. 8637 B. 



0. hexandra, Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. II, 10. Pbarus ciliatus, Retz. 

 Obs. v. 237 Pseudorvza ciliata. Griff. Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 144, I. 1. Turraya 

 napalensis, Wall. Cat. 8637 D. Blepharochloa ciliata, EndL Gen. 1352 ; 

 Steud. I. c. 4. 



LOWER HIMALAYA ; in marshes, from Nepal eastward to Assam and Burma, and 

 southward to the Malay Peninsula and CEYLON. DISTEIB. Trop. Afric., Amer., and 

 Austral. 



Stem 2-4 ft., weak, base rooting ; nodes villous. Leaves erect, 8-12 in. by i~i in., 

 flat ; ligule truncate. Panicle 2-4 in., oblong, branches suberect or spreading 

 flexuous, few-fld. Spikelets in., dimidiate-oblong, smooth or scaberulous, pale 

 green ; keel of gl. and palea rigidly ciliate. 



2. Xi. oryzoides, Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 21, Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 132 ; 

 panicle effuse, stamens 3. Host Gram. Austr. i. t. 35 ; Kunth Enum. PI. 



1. 5, Suppl. 1 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. i. t. 52. Oryza clandestina, A. Br. ex 

 Aschers. Fl. Brandenb. 799. Asprella oryzoides, Lamk. III. i. 167 ; JRoem. 

 & Sch. Syst. ii. 266. Homalocenchrus oryzoides, Mieg. ex Poll. Hist. PI. 

 Palat. i. 52. Phalaris oryzoides, Linn. Sp. PI. 55 (excl. cit.) ; Schreb. 

 Beschr. Graese, vi. t. 22. 



KASHMIR, Falconer, Thomson. DISTEIB. Trop. and temp, regions. 



Stem 2-3 ft., nodes villous. Leaves glaucous, scaberulous ; sheath compressed ; 

 ligule lacerate. Panicle 3-7 in., base embraced by the upper leaf-sheath. Spikelets 

 fewj remote, in. long. 



20. HYGRORHXZA, Nees. 



A floating glabrous grass. Leaves short, broad, flat. Spikelets few, 

 lanceolate, 1-fld., shortly pedicelled on the few branches of a broad spreading 

 panicle, articulate on the annulate tip of the pedicel. Glume solitary (empty 



fls. 0), flg. membranous, lanceolate, narrowed into a long awn, 5 nerved, 

 eel and nerves ciliate ; palea acuminate, 3-nerved, keel scabrid. Lodicules 



2. gibbous. Stamens 6, anthers very long. Styles short, free, stigmas 



