1208 BENGAL PLANTS. [(Iseilema. 
spathiform bracts; rachis of spike articulated on the top of its 
peduncle below the lowest spikelets; spikelets dimorphic, the 
lower 4 truly whorled, male or neuter, forming an involucre round 
the inarticulate rachis, bearing a sessile 2-sexual and 2 pedicelled 
male or neuter yomiage Spikelets of the involucre pedicelled ; 
age mg flattened, glabrous or bearded at the base ; g/wmes 
3; I. and IT. oblong-lanceolate, I. 3-5-nerved, II. 3-nerved ; III. 
hyaline, 1. onic lodicules cuneate, retuse. Sessile spikelet 
2-sexual, narrowed into a slender stipe; glume I. truncate or 2-fid 
at tip; Il. hyaline; III. absent or very small; IV. an awn longer 
than spikelet. Pedicelled spikelets on long, slender pedicels 5 
stamens 3; styles 2, short, spreading from the base ; stigmas long, 
slender, exserted at the apex of the spikelet. Grain oblong, 
compressed. 
Keel and submarginal nerves of the spathes granulate or tubercled ; 
Wig tii. 
Keel and submarginal nerves of the a egee SMOOEN .......sceeeeceers laxum. 
2648. eed Wientn Anderss.; F. B. I. vii, 218; E. D. 
I. 488. pricerhtts iebaia F. I. i. 250. 
Chota Nagpur; Behar; N. Bengal. 
A decumbent, pereiisithi grass. 
2649, IskineEMA LAxum Hack.; F. B. I. vii. 218; BH. D. I. 487. 
Orissa; W. Bengal; Behar 
A decumbent, perennial grass. 
1084. Zea Linn. 
A tall, stout, annual, monccious grass; leaves broad, 
2 Femi 1-sexual, males in terminal, racemed spikes, anor in 
solitary, axillary, stout, sheathed spikes, with a thick, inarticulate, 
spongy rachis. 3 Spikelets 2-flowered, 2- : 
pedicelled at each of the alt ternating teeth of the inarticulate 
rachis ; glumes 4, acute; I. and II. subequal, membranous, empty, 
I. enclosing the hyaline pein III. and IV.; lodicules fleshy; 
stamens 3; anthers lin Spikelets i-flowareds sessile, 
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