Tragus.} GRAMINE.. 1185 
dimidiate, oblong, thinly chartaceous, keeled, awnless, the keel 
pectinately ciliate, 3-veined or 5-veined, the lateral veins forming 
the thickened margins of the glume; palea linear, as long as the 
: glume, rigid; margins membranous, 8-veined, dorsally ciliate ; 
j lodicules 2; stamens 6; styles 2, short, free; stigmas plumose, 
laterally exserted from the glume. Grain narrowly oblong, free 
within the glume and palea 
2570. LeEERSIA HEXANDRA Bw: S RCUBIS wis 84s De Say, 
L. ciliata F. 1. ii. 207, 
In all the province 
A weak, floating grass ; stems 12-80 feet long. 
1060. Hygrorhiza Nees. 
A floating, glabrous grass; stems stoutish, diffusely branched, 
rooting in dense masses at the nodes ; branches short, erect, leafy ; 
leaves oblong, obtuse. Spikelets few, erect, 1-flowered, jointed on 
the pedicels but tardily dehiscent, lanceolate, long-awned, on pas 
| few wide-spreading branches of a short-peduncled panicle. Glwm 
| § solitary, thinly chartaceous, narrowed to an erect, scaberulous 
awn, strongly 5-veined, the veins scabrid, ciliate, lateral marginal ; 
: palea much narrower, 8-veined, acuminate, with ciliate keel ; lodi- 
cules minute, suborbicular ; stamens 6; anthers long, very slender ; 
styles 2, free; stigmas feathery, laterally protruded. Grain 
oblong, narrowed at the base, obtuse, free within the glume and 
ale 
O571, Hyeroruiza aristata Nees; F.B. I. vii. 95; E. D. H. 513, 
Leersia aristata F, I. ii. 207. 
In most of the provinces. 
A glabrous, adie grass. Vernac. Jangli dal. 
1061. Tragus Haller. 
small, perennial, rigid, densely tufted, depressed grass; stem 
Shes, leafy ; leaves small, subdistichously imbricate, flat, ciliate. 
Spikelets j in terminal spikes, binate on very short pedicels that are 
articulate with the rachis, 1-flowered. Glumes 3; I. very minute, 
hyaline; IT. eymbiform, oblong-lanceolate, thickly coriaceous, 
empty, Strongly 5-ribbed ; margins membranous, inflexed, closely 
embracing III, the ribs armed with long, stout spines with 
hooked tips ; III. 2-sexual, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, dorsally 
Compressed, thin, scaberulous, sides ssieilated palea nearly as 
