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Manisuris, ) GRAMINEE. 1191 
069. Ophiurus Gaertn. 
nnual or Bee: tall grasses ; stems solid, branching u 
wards, leafy; leaves linear-lanceolate, Spikelets 2-flowered, ae 
and sessile in the excavate joints, with concave tops, of 
solitary or fascicled, terete, fragile spikes, with no trace of an 
upper rs at a noawn. Glumes 4; I. thickly rarer. 
convex, obtus . almost membranous, concave, keeled; 
ie ae eet faintly 2-nerved, margins infolded, pee 
e; IV. as long as IIT., oblong, obtuse, 2-sexual; palea narrow ; 
bits 2, cuneate ; stamens 3; anthers wig styles and 
stigmas small, not exserted. Grain cong 
2589. OpHiurus corymBosus Gaertn. f.; F. B. e vii. 160. Rott- 
boellia corymbosa i I. i. 855. 
. Bengal, Duar: 
An erect, 2 peren grass, 5-6 feet high; base of stem 
tuber 
1070. Manisuris Sw 
Annual, erect, slender, leafy grasses ; Labiie flat, base cordate, 
amplexicaul, Spikes small, terete; axillary and terminal, shortly 
peduncled ; rachis green, ultimately fragile, glabrous, with short, 
broad internodes, excavate opposite the sessile spikelets ; spikelets 
minute, in very dissimilar pairs, a sessile 2-sexual, and a pedicelled 
male or neuter, the pedicel adnate or closely adpressed to the 
tachis, Sessile spikelet : glumes 4; I. globose, hollow, coarsely 
pitted with a ventral orifice, appressed to the cavity of the rachis, 
Coriaceous, at length crustaceous, callus tumid, glabrous; IT. 
minute, oblong, coriaceous, 1-veined, closing the orifice of I.; III. 
and IV. very minute, hyaline, convolute and together owned a 
Conical envelope to the stamens and ov ary, III. orbicular, IV. 
smaller, Liaise: oblong ; lodicules subquadrate ; anthers minute ; 
‘onnective very short; ovary globose; styles and stigmas short. 
Pedicelled spikelet: glumes 2, green; I. orbicular, flat, margined 
With a broad, hyaline, ciliate wing, veins 5-7, very wide; IT. 
<a ciliate wing; III. and IV. usually obsolete. brein 
glob 
2590, MANISURIS GRANULARIS Linn. f.; F. I. i. 352; F. B. I. 
vil. 159; BE. D. M. 
Tn all the provinces. Sa 
An erect, annual, much-branched grass. Hind. Trinpali. 
