1184 BENGAL PLANTS. (Oryza. 
tOvaries 2 or more, usually 3-5, sometimes 6 or 7 [p. cgi sativa 
plena. 
+Spikelets under -25 in. long; ligule short :—[p. 1183] 
Glumes tesselately punctulate, setulo latifolia 
Glumes granulate, glabrous granulata. 
*Margins of leaves spinulose-serrate ; glume III. dorsally winged, Se 
smooth ; ligule very short [p. 1183] 
ata. 
2566. a ee sativa Linn.; F. I. ii. 200; F. B. I. vii. 92; E. D. 
258. 
mee all the noe cultivated. 
An annual crop. Vernac. Dhan, chawal; Santal. Uri. 
ice.’ 
2566/2. Var. FATUA 
rissa ; Sundribuns; W. Bengal; N. Bengal. 
annual grass of watery places. ‘* Wild Rice.”’ 
2566/3. Var. PLENA. 
Chittagong. 
An annual crop. ‘‘ Double Rice.” 
here are many cultivated forms, some with long awns, others 
with short awns (sativa var. submutica) or none (sativa var. denu- 
data). The most remarkable is the form known as ‘ Double 
Rice” (var. plena), with 2-7 ovaries. 
2567. OrYZA LATIFOLIA Desy.; F.B. IL. vii. 93. 
ehar 
A tall, tufted grass; stems sometimes 6 feet high. 
, 2568. Oryza GRANULATA Nees & Arn.; F. B. I. vii. 983; E. D 
@. 255: 
Behar; Chota Nagpur. 
A slender, tufted grass; stems 2-3 feet high. Suantal. 
2569. Ons coarcrata Roxb. ; “és I. ii. 206; F. B. I. vii. 93. 
ribuns, very commo 
— erect grass; stems 1-6 feet, from a creeping root- 
stock. Beng. Dhani, harakata. 
1059. Leersia Sw. 
Tall, perennial, slender marsh grasses; leaves narrow, flat. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, in slender, contracted panicles, . te 
below 
articula 
ow the glume, strongly laterally compressed. Glwme solitary: 
