Oryza.] Graminece. 183 



Annual or perennial (?); stem 2-4 ft., erect, or with a long 

 stout creeping or floating base, rooting at the nodes, inter- 

 nodes long, smooth, nodes glabrous ; 1. 1-2 ft. by \—\ in. 

 broad, linear, acuminate, scabrid on both surfaces and on the 

 margins, base narrow, sheath 4-6 in., loose, smooth, margins 

 eciliate, mouth with ciliate auricles, ligule long, up to f in., 

 lanceolate, bifid or bipartite; panicle 6-8 in., inclined or 

 drooping, contracted, loosely branched, ped. long, smooth, 

 rhachis rather stout, angled and grooved, sparsely scaberulous, 

 branches alternate, or lower fascicled, lower rarely spi cading 

 and 2-4 in. long, flexuous, subscaberulous; spikelets \-\ in. 

 long, erect; sessile or very shortly pedicelled; glumes I and 

 II not one-fourth as long as III, ovate, acute, coriaceous, 

 white, III awned, faces deeply sulcate, keel nerves and 

 margins ciliate, awn articulate at the base, up to 2 in. long, 

 striate, erect, scabrid, palea acuminate; grain oblong, angular, 

 closely invested by the glume. 



Watery places, ascending to 3500 ft. Colombo (Ferguson), Batticaloa 

 (Nevill), S. Prov. Hakmanna (Trimen). Spikelets yellow green, mature 

 pale or pinkish yellow. 



India, Burma, Australia. 



This is undoubtedly the parent of the cultivated Rice. I can find no 

 characters whereby to distinguish the wild from the ordinary cultivated 

 form. The spikelets are always long-awned. It bears iIt* number 

 C. P. 969 in Herb. Perad. attached to specimens gathered by Gardner at 

 Caramoony, and Thwaites at Kurunegala, but that number is omitted 

 in the ' Index of C. P. numbers' in Thwaites's Enumeratio (p. 455), and 

 his O. saliva, C. P. n. 2876, is O. latifolia. 



2. O. g-ranulata, Nees ex Wall. Cat. n. 8634 (1848^. [Plate 

 XCVTI I.] Steud. Syn. Gram. 3. Trimen in Journ. Bot. xxvii. 168 (1889). 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 93. 



Perennial; stems 2-3 ft., tufted on a woody rooting root- 

 stock, slender, stiff, as thick as a crow-quill at the base, 

 smooth, internodes long, nodes glabrous ; 1. 3-6 by ^-f in., 

 narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 5-9-veined, nearly smooth on 

 both surfaces or scaberulous beneath, margins scaberulous, 

 base narrow, sheath smooth, margins eciliate, mouth naked, 

 ligule short, rounded ; panicle 2-4 in., with few long branches 

 or reduced to a simple raceme, rhachis and branches angular, 

 smooth ; spikelets few, \~\ in., shortly pedicelled, subacute, 

 awnless; glume I minute, subulate, II O, III channelled on the 

 faces, and palea granulate, glabrous. 



Hilly places. Kandy (Moon), Wattapat Kande (Ferguson), Nilgala, 

 Uva (Trimen). Spikelets pale green or white. 

 E. Himalaya, Behar, Malabar, Java. 



