1210 BENGALI PLANTS. (Coiz. 
node of the rachis, one sessile and 1 or 2 pedicelled, lanceolate ; 
glumes 4; I. and II. subequal, empty, rigid or herbaceous, I. 
keeled along the inflexed margins; III. and IV. hyaline, paleate, 
3-androus or empty. ¢ Spikelets ovoid, acuminate ; glumes 4; 
I. chartaceous; II-IV. successively thinner, IV. paleate ; stami- 
nodes minute ; lodicules 0; ovary ovoid; styles 2, free, slender. 
Grain orbicular, ventrally furrowed, enclosed in the hardened, 
globose, ovoid or cylindric involucre 
Stem 
Male eel 3 or 2, with 1 imperfect; glume I. narrowly winged 
achryma-Jobi. 
Male spikelets many, 3-nate at internodes, often forming see eylin- 
dric, drooping spikes; glume I. broadly winged iganted. 
Stems floating; male spikelets many, in cylindric, drooping en ; 
aquatica, 
2653. Corx Lacuryma-Jost Linn. ; F. I. iii. 568; F. B. I. vii. 100; 
. D. C. 1686. 
In most of the provinces. 
A stout, perennial grass; stems 3-5 feet high. Hind. 
Sankru ae eng. Gurgar, kunch; Santal. Jargadi; Kol. 
Dangho 
2654. Corx eicanrea Roxb.; F. I. iii. 569; E. D. c. 1683. C. 
Lachryma-Jobi var. gigantea F. B. I. vii. 100 
Chota Nagpur; Behar; Ori 
A stout, erect perennial ; aaa 15 feet high. Beng. 
Danga gurgar 
2655. Corx aquatica Rosh: F. I. iii, 571; F. B. I. vii. 100. 
C. Bengal; E. Ben Seal. 
A large, floating grass ; stems 50-100 feet long. 
1087. Aristida Linn. 
Annual or perennial, tufted grasses; leaves flat or convolute. 
Spikelets panicled, 1-flowered, not articulate on their pedicels, 
laterally compressed ; rachilla not produced beyond the flowering 
glume. Glumes 3; I. and IL. very narrow, long, 1-veined, keeled, 
persistent, with or without a terminal awn; III. very narrow, 
cylindric, coriaceous, convolute, acuminate, 3- eae tipped by 3 
very long capillary awns, occasionally the side awns short oF 
obsolete ; callus long, articulate at the base; palea minute, convo 
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