291 ORYZA SATIVA 



fermented infusion of rice, but that name is only properly used in 

 reference to the spirit distilled from Palm Wine or Toddy. 



Per. Mat. Med., vol. ii, part 1, p. 73; Pharmacopoeia of India ? 

 p. 254; Waring's Man. Pract. Therap., p. 531; Bentley's 

 Man. Bot., pp. 37 and G86 ; Garrod, in Monthly Journal of 

 Medical Science, January, 1848; Boussingault, in Ann. Chem. 

 et Phys., vol. Ixvii, p. 413. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE. 



Drawn frorn a specimen grown in the Royal Gardens, Kew. 



1. A panicle and the uppermost leaf. 



2. A spikelet. 



3. Glumes. 



4. Pales. 



5. Lodicules (erroneously represented as opposite). 



6. A flower. 



7. Anther. 



8. Stigma. 



9. Fruit enclosed in the pales. 



11. Transverse section of the same. 

 10. The grain. 



12. Section through base of the same, showing embryo. 



(212 enlarged.) 



