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flover enclosed in an involucre, basilar : spifcelets 2-flo-wered, lower 

 flo-wer neuter : glumes fleshy, concave, muticous, neutral one 1- 

 valved : perfect one valvelets 2, upper one 2-nerved : scalelets none : 

 style one : stigmas 2 — 3, elongated, hairy, rudimentary stamens 

 minute : caryopsis sub-globose, at length free vrithin the involucre. 



(1) C. LAOETMA. (lAnn.) 

 Ident. Eoxb. 1. o. III. p. 568. 

 Syn. Lithagrostis Lacryma Jobi, Towrnef. 



Bot. Mag. t. 2479.— Eheede Mai. xii. t. 70.— Beauv. 

 Agroit. t. 24, fig. 5.— Kunth 1. c. suppl. t. 3, 4. 



Spec. Chae. Culm branched, fall of pith, half-terete above, 

 obtuse : spikelets axillary, pedimcled, not involucrate : fruit ovate : 

 root annual. 



Peninsula. Bengal. Flowering in the rainy season. The 

 hardened involucres are known as JoVs tears. 



(2) C. BAEBATA. fBoxh.J 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 669. — ^Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 289. 



Spec. Chae. Eoots annual : culms erect, cemuous at the apex, 

 branched, jointed, smooth, furrowed, not piped, 3 — 6-feet : leaves 

 sheathiug, narrow, keeled, margias armed vrith small prickles and 

 clothed with numerous stiff white hairs : mouths of the sheaths 

 slightly bearded : spikes numerous, pediceHed, terminal, and from 

 the exterior axUs forming a large Uiiear panicle, coUeoted ir; fascicles 

 of from 2 to 6 on a common peduncle : iuvolucre of one haxd, glossy, 

 valve, allowing free egress to the male spike and enclosing the 

 female flower. 



High hills around Jooneer. Circars. Bengal. Flowering in the 

 rainy season. 



(3) C. oiGANTBA. (Kom.) 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 570. 



Spec. Chae. Culm erect, branched, round, smooth, jointed, 

 8 — 15-feet: upper side and margins of the^ leaves hispid: sheaths 

 smooth: spikes pediceUed, pedicels longj filiform, naked, not jointed: 

 involucre ovate, perforated at the top for the male spike to pass 

 through, smooth, glossy, hard, male "spikes droopijig, three-fold, 

 middle one pediceUed. 



Circar vaUies. Bengal. Flowering in the rains. 



