100 CLXxiii. graminb;r. (J. D. Hooker.) {Goix. 



thinner; IV paleate. Siaminodes mizwite. LodiculesO. Owarj/ ovoid, styles 

 2, free slender. Grain orbicular, ventrally furrowed, enclosed in the 

 hardened globose ovoid or cylindrio inyolucre. 



C. Iiachryma-Jobl, Linn. 8p. PI. 972 ; C. Laohryma, Idnn. Syst. 

 Hd. X.1261 ; Lamk. III. t. 760; kunth Emm. PL i. 20, Supipl. 16, t. 3, 4; 

 Beauv. Agrost. t. 24, f. 5; Bot. Mag. t. 2479; Steud. Syn. Gram. 9; 

 WeUb. Phyt. Canar. t. 242, 243; Boxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 568 ; Q-ra,h. Gat. Bomb. 

 PZ. 240; Wall: Gat. n. 8623; Griff. Notul. iii. 10; Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 

 375 ; Trimen Gat. Ceyl. PI. 106 ; Balz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 289 ; Aitchis. 

 Gat. Panjah. PI. 157 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 11, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 

 18 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 476, t. 41 B. C. agreatis, Lour. Fl. CocUnch. 

 551. 0. arundinacea, Lamk. Encycl. iii. 422. C. exaltata, Jacq. Edog. 

 Gram. 6, t. 40. 0. ovata, Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. iv. 342. 0. pendnla, 

 Salisb. Prodr. 28. C. puellarum, Balans. in Journ. de Bot. iv. (Paris, 

 1890), 77. 0. stigmato5a, Koch 8f Bouche, Ind. Sem. Eort. Berol. (1855) 9. 

 Lithagrostis Lacryma-Jobi, Gsertn. Fruct. i. 7, t. i. f. 10. 



Thronghoat the hotter and damper parts of India, wild or cultivated (not wild 

 in Ceylon). — DrsTEiB. Trop. Asia, cult, in Africa and America. 



Stem 3-5 ft., stout, leafy, rooting at the lower nodes. Leaves 4-18 hy 1-2 in., 

 wavy, base cordate; sheaths smooth ; ligule very short, glabrous. Spifces 2-3 in. , 

 suberect, peduncled ; male spike'ets 3, or 2 with an imperfect one, J in. long ; gl. I 

 narrowly winged. Fruit ovoid or spherical, i-4 in. long, osseous, blnish gray. 



Yxu. giffantea, Stapf mss. ; perennial, attaining 15 ft. high, leaves narrower 

 more strict, male spikelets 3-nate at the internodes, often forming long cylindric 

 drooping spikes, gl. I broadly winged, fruit as in the type. C. gigantea, Eooi*. Fl,. 

 Jtid. iii. 569; Wall. Cat. n. 8624, 8R25. Aitch. Cat. Panjah. PI. 157; BntUe 

 Orass. 2f. W. Ind. 11 ; Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 18. 0. lingnlata, Mack, in (Estr. Bot. 

 Zeitschr. (1891) 5.—Rheede Sort. Mai. xii. t. 70. — Hot valleys from the N.W. 

 Provinces to Assam and southwards to the Malay Peninsula and Travancore.^ 

 Afghanistan. 



Vae. stenocarpa, Stapf mss. ; fruit subcylindric J— f in. long white osseous. C. 

 stenocarpa, Balams. I. c. C. tubnlosa, Hack, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. iii. 260? — 

 Upper Assam, Bruce. Mergui, Griffith. Karen Hills, WalUi-h. — Tonkin, N. 

 Guinea. 



Var. Jfa-yuen, Stapf mss.; annual, fruit crustaceous or chartaceous. C. Ma- 

 yuen, Roman, in Bull. Soc. Acclim. Paris. Ser. 3, viii. (1881) 442. Sikkim and 

 the Khasia hills, ascending to 5000 ft. (cult.). Burma, TVatt. — Cochinchina, Borneo, 

 Ins. Philipp. 



DOTJBTFUL SPECIES. 



C. AQUATICA, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 571; floating and creeping from 50-100 ft., 

 leaves linear most acute, margins hispid, male spikes drooping many-fld., flowers 

 3-fold, middle one pedicelled fem., corolla 6-7-valved, seeds turbinate." " Floating 

 in margins of lakes in Lower Bengal," JRoxb. This species is unknown to me and 

 to the ofiicers of the Calcutta Bot. Gardens. 



29. FOIiVTOCA, Br. 



Tall branching grasses ; nodes bearded ; flg. branches fascicled, 

 spathaceons. Leaves long, flat. Spikes solitary or panicled, bisexual and 

 fem. below, or the upper male only, rachis jointed ; spikelets geminate, 

 a sessile and a pedicelled. Male spikelets lanceolate, 2-fld. ; gls. 4, I 

 many-nerved, 2 keeled ; II 5-7-nerved ; III and IV hyaline, paleate, 

 triaiidrons ; anthers very long. Lodicules cnneate. Fem. spikelets 

 imbricate, the pedicelled imperfect, its pedicel confluent with the 

 rachis ; gls. of sessile spikelet 4, I oblong, coriaceous, margins inflexed 



