4 Oryza.) GRAMINEZ., 1183 
3 2564. Pasranum visticuum Linn.; F. B. I. vii. 12. P. longi- 
A Horum ¥F. 1. i. 279. 
A perennial grass, with creeping and rooting stem. 
1057. Eriochloa H. B. & K. 
Annual or perennial grasses ; leaves flat, pee a or ovate- 
lanceolate. Spikelets 1-flowered, aristulate, secund on the spici- 
form branches of a raceme or panicle, the base siaokenel and 
articulate on the thickened apex of the hase pedicel. Glumes 3 
(glume IT, [of ta 2 &e.] absent); II. and III. subequal, mem- 
branous, epaleate ; I VY. (flowering glume) — rather shorter, 
apiculate, hardening in fruit; lodicules tru ; stamens 3; 
anthers linear; styles 2, fre stigmas en subapically 
exserted. Grain oblong, free Pei the hardened glume and 
the palea 
2565, Puiwanens potystacnya H. B. & K.; F. B. I. vii. 201; 
E. D. 287. tlium ramosum F. I, i, 316. 
In most of the provinces 
A large grass; stems Sacunding from a creeping base. 
1058. Oryza Linn. 
EY nnual or perennial grasses; Jeaves long, narrow, flat. 
Pea 1-flowered, loosely arranged on the branches of an 
elongate or rarely spiciform panicle, disarticulating below the 
glumes, cai cee strongly compressed, awned or not, thickened at 
the bas Glumes 1-3; I. and II. very minute, subulate or obso- 
the glume, awnless or with a short or long, straight, terminal, 
Scabrid awn, articulate on the glume; palea linear, as long as the 
glume, 3-veined, coriaceous, with membranous margins ; lodicules 
2, oe or Zighed; pitas 6; rasiy — styles short, 
free ; stigm me ee oblong, 
abla elosdiy: eoversd by or adnate to peat and palea. 
“Margins of leaves not spinulose; glume III. not winged :—[p. 1184] 
tSpikelets over -25 in. long ; — long :—{p. 1184] 
—{p. 1184] 
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Spikelets over °3 in. way! senda or no sativa 
Spikelets about °3 in. Jong, always sed awned ...sativa var. fatua, 
