Oryza.] oixxiii. qramine;e (J. D. Hooker.) 93 



as long or twice as long as the g1. Xunth Bevis. Gram. i. 185, t. 4, JEnum. 

 PI. i. 7, Suppl. 4. O. officinalis, Wall. & montana, Earn. Wall. Oat. 

 a. 8635, 8633. O. platyphylla, Soh.f. 8yst. vii. II. 1864. 



Low valleys in SiKKiK, Assam, Silhet, Caohab, MnuNEPORB, Centrai, India, 

 and BtTRMA.— DisTRiB. Trop. As. Afr. and Amer. 



Stems np to 6 ft., tufted, as thick as a swan's quill below. Leaves 1-2 ft. by 

 i-l| in., nearly sraooth, many-nerved; midrib slender, shining beneath; sheath 

 very long. Branches of panicle 4-8 in., very slender ; pedicels and branchlets 

 bearded at the base. Spikelets J-i in. ; gl. Ill and palea hairy. ' 



Var. collina; gl. I and II minute or 0. O. sativa, Thwaites Enum. PI- Zeyl. 

 357. 0. sativa var. collina, Trim, mss.— Ceylon ; hills about Colombo and in the 

 Western Provinces. 



3. O. grranulata, Nees et Am. in Wight Cat. n. 2354, ea; Watt. Cat. 

 n. 8634 ; ligule very short, spikelets in simple racemes obtuse awnless ; 

 gl. I and II minnte or 0, III and palea glabrous granulate. Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. 3. 0. filiformis. Herb. Sam. ex Wall. I. c. O. triandra, Serb. Seyne 

 ex Steud. I. c. Padia Meyeriana, Zoll. & Mor. Verz. 103 ; Ifiq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. iii. 373; Steud. I.e. 3. 



In dry woods; Sikkim Himalaya, the Khasia, and Behae HitLS. Maiabar 

 and Madura, Heyne, Wight, &o. Ceylon; at Eambukkana, Trimen. — Disirib. 

 Java. 



Stems 2-3 ft., slender, tufted. Leaves 3-6 by J in., thin, midrib beneath and 

 nerves distinct; sheath very long. Racemes very slender, on very long slender 

 peduncles ; rachis flexuous, rarely with a short branch at the base. Spikelets shortly 

 pedicelled, J-J in. long. 



4. O. Rldleyl, Soohf; very slender, leaves thin nerves distinct, 

 ligule long, panicle with solitary alternate branches, spikelets J-i in., gls. 

 1 and II setaceous, III thinly chartaoeous scabrid narrowly oblong 

 dorsally spinulose-ciliate narrowed into an awn of about its own length. 



Malay Peninstjla ; Pahang, in dense thickets, Ridley. — Disteib. Borneo. 



Stem 2—3 ft., weak, as thick as a crow's quill below. Leaves 12 by J in., nearly 

 smooth ; sheath long, slender. Panicle 12 in. ; branches sometimes 6 in. and rachis 

 very slender ; pedicels xir 4 in. — Habit of 0. granulata, but spikelets more 

 like O. coarotata. 



5. O. coarctata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 206 ; tall, stout, leaves coriaceous 

 caudate-acuminate spinulose-serrate nerves obscure, ligule very short, 

 panicle spiciform, branches few-fld., spikelets J— § in., gl. I and II setaceous, 

 III narrowly dolabriform quite smooth dorsally winged tip narrowed into 

 a short rigid awn quite smooth. Wall. Cat. n. 8646; Griff. Notul. iii. 8, 

 Ic. PI. Asiai. t. 142, f. 1 ; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. Hi. 371. O. triticoides, Griff. 

 Notul. I. c. Sclerophyllum coarctatum, Griff. I. c. 



SuKDEEBUNDS, Hamilton, Roxburgh, &e. SciND, at Shikarpur (HerJ. SutUe). 



Stem 4-6 ft., erect from a stout creeping rhizome, branching, smooth, hard, 

 polished. Leaves 6-12 by i-i in., unequal-sided, rigid, smooth or scaberulous, 

 nerves and midrib obscure, tips long slender ; sheath long, undulately reticulate, 

 polished. Panicle 4-6 in., rachis and branches trigonous, stiff', quite smooth; 

 pedicels clavate at- the top and then contracted below the dilated cupular tip. 

 Spikelets laxly imbricate, rigidly cbartaceous j gl. I and II not half as long as III, 

 ,erect ; III strongly laterally often obliquely compressed, keeled, keel dilated above 

 into a rounded wing, obscurely 7— 9-uerved, lateral nerves submarginal; palea 

 cbartaceous, as long as the gl., oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, 5-nerved, medial^ 



