1192 BENGAL PLANTS. [Rottboellia. 
1071. Rottboellia Linn. f. 
Annual or perennial grasses, usually tall; stems leafy ; leaves 
ees flat. Spikes solitary, racemose or subpaniculate ; rachis 
iculate ; internodes terete or compressed, each bearing a pair of 
Htasihdee, awnless spikelets, a lower 1-2-flowered, usually 2-sexual, 
unk in a cavity of the internode, and an upper pedicelled, male or 
neuter, with the pedicel free or adnate to the side of the internode. 
mes 4; I. co ae ovate or oblong, flat or convex, closing 
the mouth of the cavity, margins narrowly incurved; II. very 
thin, 1-3-veined ; III. hyaline, aes or not, neuter; IV. hyaline, 
paleate, 2-sexual; lodicules quadrate or cuneate ; stamens as 
anthers linear; styles rather distant at the base and stigma short. 
Pedicelled upper spikelet smaller than sessile; glume I. usually 
ae ; IL-IV. much as in sessile spikelets. Grain oblong, 
compressed, 
Spikes panicled, lower ice POGUMCIED 2 FAido cs scsccenceeeneseceoseeeas Zea, 
Spikes solitary or fascicle 
seri RS ra hah not fragile : 
e Il. of pedicelled spikelet acuminate or shortly awned, 7-9- 
stay ee compressa. 
Glume II. of pedicelled spikelet ae shee 1-3-nerved ...protensd. 
gate more or less cylindric; rachis 
e I. of sessile spikelet broadly wae. Sane Meee Sere Clarkei. 
iitine I. of sessile spikelet hardly winged ..exaltata. 
2591. Rorrpornua Zea Clarke; F. B. I. vil. 152. 
N. Bengal, Duars. 
A tall, stout grass, 6-8 feet high. 
2592, RorrBoELLIA compressa Linn. f.; F. I. i. 854; F. B. I. 
vii, 1538. 
In most of the provinces. 
A branching, leafy grass. Beng. Pansheru. 
2593. Bovencarrza 3 PROTENSA Hack. ; I. vii. 153. 
N. Bengal; E. Bengal; C. Seinen 
A leafy grass, decumbent below. 
2594. Rorrsoenuia CuarKket Hack.; F. B. I. vii. 156. 
Chota Nagpur 
A small sonnel grass. 
2595. RorTBORLLIA EXALTATA Linn. f.; F. I. i. 354; F. B. I. 
vii. 156. 
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