Hordeum.) GRAMINE. 1231 
styles short, their bases distant; stigmas plumose, laterally ex- 
serted, Grain obovoid, terete, smooth, brown, free-in the glume, 
with 2-mucronate apex. 
22. OropeTiIuM THomxum Trin. ; F. B. I. vii. 866. Rottboellia 
Thomea F, T, i. 857. 
Behar. 
A dwarf, densely tufted, erect annual. 
1114. Triticum Linn. 
Annual or biennial grasses ; leaves flat. Spikelets few-flowered, 
tumid, sessile, distichously spicate, solitary, ee their sides oppo- 
site cavities in the articulate or inarticulate rachis; upper flower 
male or neuter. Glumes rigid, often panto -sided; I. and U. 
empty, obtuse or shortly awned, few-nerved, persi err flowering 
glumes oblong or Prscesysesy dorsally rounded or —. above, 
ge or 1-3-awned, 5-9-nerved, lateral nerves oe ivi 
h the ‘aioe keels of the palea ciliate; lndeatae tadhick 
ciliate ; stamens 3; styles ieee short. Grain grooved ventrally, 
often hairy, free or adnate to 
2728, Sipe VULGARE vill. F. B. I. vii. 367. 7. hybernum 
359. T. estivum F.1,i. 359. T. sativum FE. D. 
< and. 
Cultivated generally in the western parts; sparingly in 
N gal and E. Bengal. 
A tall, annual grass. Vernae. Gehum, giyun, gom. 
Wheat 
1115. selpauaye’ Linn. 
Erect, annual, rarely perennial grasses; leaves flat. Spikelets 
l-flowered, 2-3-nate in the hollows at the nodes of a simple, 
cylindric spike, the lateral often imperfect; rachilla jointed at the 
base of the flowering Ae & and produced above it, with some- 
times an arama glume. Glumes 3; I. and II. narrow, empty, 
rigid, sistent, the outer of each cluster of spikelets often 
bcsther: ena ing an involucre; III. dorsally rounded, 5-nerv 
above, narrowed — an erect or recurved awn; palea 2-keeled ; 
lodicules 2, ciliate; stamens 3; styles very short. Grain 
Srooved in front, se usually villous, adherent to the’ palea or 
ee, 
2724, Horpeum vuneare Linn.; F. B. I. vii. 871; E. D. H. 873. 
Hi hexastichon F. I, i. 358, 
