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membranaceous, slightly concave, muticous : valvelets 2, chartaceo- 

 coriaceous, compressed and keeled, nearly equal in length, closed, 

 lower one much broader, usually awned at the apex : awn straight, 

 somewhat jointed at the base : stamens 6 : ovary glabrous : styles 

 2, terminal : stigmas plumose with branched hairs : scalelets 2, 

 glabrous, somewhat fleshy : caryopsis glabrous, oblong, enclosed by 

 the valvelets. — Leaves flat : panicle branched : spikelets racemosely 

 arranged in branchleta, jointed with the pedicel, compressed, Mspid. 



(1) 0. SATIVA. (U/im.) 



Ident. Eoxb. flor. Ind. II. 200. 



Engram. Lam. HI. t. 264. — ^Beauv. Agr. t. vii. fig. 7 — 8. 



Spec. Chae. Culm erect : leaves linear, elongated, scabrous : 

 panicle racemose, contracted, branches scabrous, glumes lanceolate, 

 pale, adpressed : valvelets beset with long hairs, one muticous, the 

 other usually awued. 



Circaxs. The wild rice plant from which aU the cultivated 

 varieties have sprung is found in and on the bordors of lakes in 

 the Circars. The grain is gathered and eaten by the richer 

 classes in the KaJ3,hmundry districts, it being considered a great 

 dainty and realising a high price. 



GEiniS II. BLEPHAEOCHLOA. 

 Hexandria Dig^ynia. Sex : &nai, .■ 



Beriv. From Blepha/ron a fringe, and Chloa grass. 



Gejt. Chak. Spikelets hermaphrodite, 1 -flowered : glumes (or 

 palese) 2, compressed, keeled, muticous, obtusely mueronate, very 

 shortly stalked, lower one 5 -nerved, middle nerve and marginal ones 

 denticulate-ciliate, upper shorter, 3-nerved, keel denticulate-ciliate : 

 scalelets 2, fleshy, scimitar-shaped : stamens 6 : ovary sessile : 

 stigmas long, plumose. 



(1) B. CTTiTAiA. (Steudel.J 



Ident. Steudel Syn. pi. gram. p. 4. 



8yn. Zizania cUiata, Spreng.^Griff. in Jown. As. Soc. v. t. 25, 

 fig. I. — ^Leersia eiliata, JELoxb. flor. Ind. II. 207. — ^Phanis cUiatus, 



Spec. Chab. Culms slender, far creeping at the base, smooth : 

 joints cylindric, pubescent : leaves somewhaj; glaucescent, linear, 

 acute, lineate above, scabrous : spikes few, distant, somewhat 

 secund, alternately arranged in a nodding panicle : spikelets solitary 

 articulated at the cup-shaped apex of a curved pedicel. 



Stagnant waters at Jumalpore, Eastern Bengal. 



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