■Coix.] GraminecB. 191 



acuminate, base acute or cuneate, thinly coriaceous, almost 

 shining on both surfaces, margins quite smooth, petiole 2-3 

 in., slender, channelled above, sheaths as long as the inter- 

 nodes or longer, glabrous, lower equitant at the base, ligule 

 a pubescent ridge ; ped. 6-10 in., rigid and panicle puberu- 

 lous with hooked hairs, branches 6-8 in a whorl, unequal, up 

 to 6 in. long ; glumes I and II caducous, oval, acuminate, 

 II about i in long, III of male spikelets erect, rather 

 longer than the stamens, of fern, much larger, eventually \ in. 

 long, inflated, turbinately pyriform, with a contracted base 

 and short terminal neck on the truncate obscurely lobed top, 

 densely tomentose with uncinate hairs. 



Forests of the warmer parts of the Island ; not very uncommon. 

 Kakatudua Forests (Ferguson). 

 Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra. 



2. Xi. cochleata, T1vw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 357 (i{ 



C. P. 896. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 95. 



Habit of L. urceolata, but more slender, stem creeping 

 below; 1. 4-6 by i|-if in., oblong or obovate-oblong, acute 

 or acuminate, thin, shining beneath, base acute, margins quite 

 smooth, petiole \-\ in., sheaths 1-3 in., lower not equitant ; 

 panicle 6-8 in., and ped. nearly glabrous, branches mostly 

 ternately whorled in 6-8 superposed series, very slender, 

 strict ; male spikelets, glumes I and II ovate to orbicular, 

 long-cuspidate, II much the largest, III cymbiform. acumi- 

 nate, pubescent, palea slit nearly to the middle into 2 subu- 

 late lobes ; fern, spikelets ; glume III gibbously urceolate, 

 pubescent, deflexed and incurved, mature \ in. long, in- 

 flated, shortly 5-ribbed or lobed, densely tomentose with 

 uncinate hairs, orifice lateral ; palea, style, and stigmas as in 

 L. urceolata, but much smaller. 



Forests of the Central Province, ascending to 4000 ft. (Thwaites), 

 Matale (Gardner). 



Endemic. * 24 COIX? z# 



Tall, leafy, monoecious grasses; stem branching, spongy 

 within ; 1. long, flat ; infl. of spiciform racemes terminating 

 the branches, racemes of many male spikelets with one 

 (rarely 2) fern, at the base, rhachis articulate at the base and 

 above the fem. spikelet ; — male spikelets 2-3-nate at each 

 node of the rhachis, one sessile and one- or two-pedicelled, 

 articulate at the base, but persistent, dorsally compressed ; 



* Name, Greek, of uncertain meaning and application. 



