Coiz.] GRAMINE. 1209 
2650. a4 Mays Linn.; F. I. iii. 568; F. B. 1. vii. 102s) Be DP. 
50. 
Gea 
A tall, annual, moneecious grass. Vernac. Butta, makai ; 
Santal. Jondra 
1085. Polytoca R. Br. 
Tall, stout, erect, ee perennial, moncecious grasses ; 
stems spongy; no ear flowering branches fascicled ; 
leaves long, flat. Spikes mite or panicled, male only, or the 
upper male, the lower female; rachis jointed; spikelets Pre 
& sessile and a pedicelled. ¢ Spikelets lanceolate, 2-flow 
glumes 4; T. rage -nerved, 2-keeled; II. 5- foe: IIT. a nd LY. 
hyaline, paleate, 3-androus ; ; anthers very long ; lodicules cuneate. 
* Spikelets imbricate, the pedicelled imperfect, its pedicel con- 
fluent with the rachis ; glumes of sessile spikelet 4; I. oblong, 
coriaceous, margins inflexed, embracing the rachis, at engi crus- 
taceous ; IT. thin, acuminate ; ITI. hyaline, epaleate ; . shige: 
paleate, fertile ; staminodes 0; lodicules 0; ovary minute ; styles 
long ; stigmas slender. Grain very small, dehiialee se in 
the hardened outer glumes. 
inflorescences mostly compound; male spikelets terminal, nee 
al emale 3— acteata 
dior all of simple, bisexual spikes; spikelets glabrous.. sisi 
2651. Potyroca | R. Br.; F. B. I. vii. 101. Coix 
heteroclita F. 572. 
N. Bengal, vd ; E. Bengal, Mymensingh. 
A tall, usually tie grass, 3-5 feet high. 
2652. ies BARBATA Stapf; F. B. I. vii. 102. Coir barbata 
I. iii. 569. 
In ae of the provinces 4 
A tall grass, 3-5 feet high. Beng. Gungar. 
1086. Coix Linn. 
Tall, leafy, monecious grasses ; stem branching, spongy within ; 
leaves long, flat, wide. Spikes many, axillary and terminal ; lower 
Spikelets solitary; female, enclosed in an ultimately hardened, 
Polished, nut-like bract, through the apex of which the pedicelled 
male portion of the spike protrudes. ¢ Spikelets 2-3-nate at each 
