768 Jour., Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. XXXlll, No. 4 • [Oct. 15, 1929. 



For a note on the inflorescence see : S. G Bhalerao : The Morphology of the 

 Rice Plant and of the Rice Inflorescence. In Journ of Ind. Bot. Soc. v 

 (1926), 13. 



Much interesting information on Oryza saliva-can. be had in 



Watt, G. : Dictionary of Economic Products of India v (1891). 



Watt, G. : Commercial Products of India (1908). 



Heuze : Les PL Aliment, des Pays Chauds (1899), 14-116. 



Mollison : Textb. Ind. Agric iii (1901), 32-44. 



Semler : Trop. Agrik. iii (1903), 1-48. 



Copeland, E. B. : Rice (1924). 



Statistical Atlas of the Bombay Presidency, 1925. 



Wild Rice : We possess little reliable information regarding the Wild Rices 

 of the Presidency. S. G. Bhalerao (in Agric. Coll. Mag. xx (1928), 45) has 

 published a paper on ' The Wild Rice {Oryza sativa) of the Bombay Presi- 

 dency ', which contains a number of interesting observations. 



According to him the wild type of Rice ' occurs abundantly on the Western 

 Ghats and occupies the zone where the rainfall is over 30-35 inches. As an 

 annual aquatic, it occurs in marshy areas, in small pools and ponds and on the 

 margins of the big tanks. It is rarely found in more tran 3 feet depth of 

 water and on land without any standing water as well.' 



We have found a Wild Rice in pools on Tableland at Panchgani (rainfall 

 60 in.). 



97. Homalocenchrus, Mieg. Act. Helv. Phys Math. 4 (1760), 307. 

 {Leer sea, Sw.) 



Description : Cke. ii, 1041 {Leer sea). 



We follow O. Kuntze (Rev. Gen.) and Hitchcock (Genera of Grass. Unit. St. 

 in U.S, Dept. of Agric. Bull. 772 (1920), 205) in going back to the genus 

 Homalocenchrus . Hitchcock says that one species is referred to the genus with 

 certainty, another being doubtfully referred to it. No specific names are 

 used, but under the first there are two citations which appear in the Species 

 Plantarum under Phalaris oryzoides, Linn, which Hitchcock considers as type 

 species. 



Species 14.— Tropical and temperate regions. 



Only one species in the Presidency. 



1. Homalocenchrus hexandrus, O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. (1891), 111 .—Leer sia 

 hexandra, Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. (1797), 131; PI. Dan. t. 1744 ; Kunth 

 Enum. PI. i, 6 ; Host. Gram. Austr. t. 35 ; Engl. Bot. t. 2908 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. 

 Germ, i, t. 52 ; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 12; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 367; 

 Benth. Fl. Austral, vii, 549; Hook. f. in F.B.I, vii, 94 ; Cke. ii, 1042 ; Haines 

 Bot. Bihar & Orissa (1924), 981.— Asprella hexander, Roem. & Schult. Syst. 

 ii (1817), 251 —Leersia australis, R. Br. Prodr. (1810), 210; Kunth 1. c. 6.— 

 AsPrella australis, Roem. & Schult. 1. c— Oryza australis, A. Br. ex Schweinf. 

 Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. (1867), 300; Aschers.— Schweinf. 111. Fl. d'Eg. 167, 

 No. 1U8.— Leersia ciliata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814), 26 ; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab 

 PI. 157 ; Duthie 1. c, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 2l.—L.xiliaris, Griff. Not. iii, 2.— 

 L. glaberrima, Trin. Oryz. 7 ; Miquel 1. c. 368. — L. mexicana, H. B. & K. 

 Nov. Gen. & Sp. i (1815), 195 ; Kunth 1. c. 6 and ii, 2, Suppl. 2, Rev. Gram. 

 178, t. 1. — Asprella mexicana, Roem. & Schult. 1. c. — Oryza mexicana, Doell. 

 in Mart. Fl. Bras, ii, ii (1871), 10.— Zizania ciliata, Spreng. Syst. ii (1825), 136 ; 

 Kunth Rev. Gram. i. 8 ; Griff. Not. iii, I.— Oryza hexandra, Doell in Mart. 

 FL Bras, ii, ii (1871) , 10.— Pharus ciliatus, Retz. Obs. v ( 1779), 23.— Pseudoryza 

 ciliata, Griff. Ic. PL Asiat. t. 144, f. \.— Turraya nepalensis, Wall. Cat. 8637D.— 

 Blepharochloa ciliata, Endl. Gen. 1352. — Hygroryza ciliata, Nees ex Steud, 

 Nomencl. ed. ii, i (1841), 783. — Leersia brasiliensis, Spreng. Nov. Prov. 

 (1819), 47.— Asprella brasiliensis, Roem. & Schult. Mant. ii (1824), 153.— 

 Leersia contractu, Nees Agrost. Bras. (1829), 516.— L. luzoniensis, Presl. 

 Rel. Haenk. i (1830), 207.— L. parviflora, Desv. Opusc. (1831), 61.— L. abyssi- 

 nica, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii (1851), 356.— Asprella purpurea, 

 Bory Hort. Maurit. (1837), 376.— Leersia elongata, Willd. herb. No, 1511 

 ex Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. 6 ser. iii (1839), 172.— L. mauritanica, Salzm. 

 ex Trin. 1. c. 174.— L. Triniana, Sieb. ex Trin. 1. c. 174.— L. gracilis, Willd. 

 herb. No. 1512 ex Trin. 1. c. 173.— L. Griff ithiana, C. Mill, in Bot. Zeitg. xiv 



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