102 CLXXIII. GEAMiNE-B. (J. D. Hooker.) [Potytoca. 



pedicelled spikelets adnate to the rachis; fern, spikelets rather longer, gl. of pedicelled. 



or minute. v 



5. P. barbata, Stapfmss. ; branches of infl. many umbelled, spathes 



1 in. at length open, fern, spikelets solitary, margins of gl. I keeled tip 

 entire. C. arundinacea, Koen. ex Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 203 (non Lamk.). Coix 

 barbata, Eoxb. Fl Ind. iii. 569 ; Wall. Cat. n. 862G ; Dais. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 289. C. crypsoides, C. Muell. in Sot. Zeit. xix. (1861) 334. C. gigantea, 

 Herb. Suss, ex Wall. Cat. I. c. C. Koenigii, Spreng ftyst. i. 228 ; Thw. 

 Enum. PI. Zeyl. 357. Chionachne barbata, Br. in Benn. PI. Rar. Jav. 

 18; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 106; Aitchi*. Cat. Panjab. PL 157; Duthie 

 Grass. N.W. Ind. ll, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind, 19. Oh. Koenigii, Thw. Enum. 

 PI. Zeyl. 369. V 



Hot and damp parts of INDIA, from the Panjab to Assam and Munnepore, and 

 southward to CEYLON. DISTKIB. Java. 



Stems 3-5 ft., glabrous or with the leaves and sheaths bristly with tubercle- 

 based hairs. Leaves 1-2 ft. by -f in., finely acuminate, margin thickened. Spikes 

 1-H i n -> rachis usually glabrous. Male spikelets % in., glabrous or softly pilose, 

 keels ciliolate ',fem. in., glabrous, pale; gl. of pedicelled minute or 0. 



6. P. punctata, Stapfmss. ; branches of infl. few unequal, terminal 

 subumbellate, outer spathes long green, gl. I of fern, spikelets constricted 

 in the middle, then suddenly dilated into an ovoid obtuse claw, keels 

 broad. Sclerachne punctata, Br. in Benn. PI. Rar. Jav. 15, t. 4. Chion- 

 achne Massii, Balans. in Journ. de Bot. (Paris, 1890), 78. Coix sulcata, 

 Herb. Rottl. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA, Bottler. DISTEIB. Java, Tonkin ? 



Stem slender, branched, glabrous, and leaves glabrous or sparsely hairy. Leaves 

 6-8 by A in., linear-lanceolate, flaccid. Spathes of lower outer branches long, lan- 

 ceolate. Spikes % in. ; male spikelets one pair, i in., glabrous ; fern, i in,, pale ; 

 gl. of pedicelled minute. 



29*. ZBA, Linn. 



A tall stout annual monoecious grass. Leaves broad, flat. Spikelets 

 unisexual, males in terminal racemed spikes ; fern, in solitary axillary 

 stout sheathed spikes, rachis thick, inarticulate, spongy. Male spikelets 

 2-fld.^ 2-nate, a sessile and a pedicelled at each of the alternating teeth of 

 the inarticulate rachis; glumes 4, acute; I and II subequal, membranous, 

 empty ; I enclosing the hyaline paleate III and IV. Lodicules fleshy. 

 Stamens 3, anthers linear. Fern, spikelets 1-fld., sessile, densely crowded 

 in many vertical series on the thick cylindric rachis ; glumes 4, membra- 

 nous, I and II very broad, obtuse or emarginate ; III hyaline, paleate, 

 empty ; IV hyaline, often 2-fld. Lodicules 0. Ovary obliquely ovoid, 

 plano-convex ; style very long, 2-fid, arms papillose. Grain large, sub- 

 globose or flattened, surrounded by the marcescent gls. 



Z. Mays, Linn. Sp. PI. 971 ; Beauv. Agrost. 136, t. 24, f. 3 ; Kunth 

 Enum. PI. i. 19, Suppl. 15 ; T. Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. Monocot. i. n. 3, 4. 

 Bonafous Hist. Nat. Mays (Paris, 1836), t. 1-19 ; Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. 

 ii. II, 30, t. 11 ; Eoxb. FL. Ind. iii. 349; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 240; Duthie 

 Field $ Gard. Crops. 25, t. 5; Miq. Fl Ind. Bat. iii. 477. Z. alba, 

 americana & vulgaris, Mill. Gard. Diet. Ed. viii. n. 1, 2, 3. Z. segetalis, 

 Salisb, Prodr. 28. Mays zea, Gasrtn. Fruct. i. 6, t. i. f. 9. 



Cultivated throughout the hotter parts of INDIA. Native of Peru, 



