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upper hermaphrodite : glumes 2, dissimilar, outer cartilaginous, 

 flat, prolonged at the apex into a point, umer ohartaceous, muticous, 

 keeled and boat-shaped : scales 2, cuneate, dentate : ovary sessile : 

 stigmas plumose. 



(1) V. ctrspiDATA. (Wall. J 



Ident. AVaU. and Griff, in Joum. As. Soc. Beng. v. t. 23. — 

 Steudel 1. c p. 359. 



Syn. Ischcemum cuspidatum, Roxb. 



Spec. Chae. Culms jointed, thick, floating in fresh waters, 

 ascending : leaves linear, acute, glabrous, retrorsely hispid at the 

 margin : spikes terminal, in threes : ligula undivided, densely 

 ciliated. 



Tanks in Bengal, flowering in October. 



GENUS XLVII. OPHIUEUS. 

 Vriandria Digynia. Sex: Syst-. 



Deriv. From Ophia a serpent, and Oura a tail. 



Gen. Chae. Spikes solitary or many fascicled, alternate : joints 

 of the loosening or continuous rhachis either alternately or flower- 

 bearing on both sides : spikelets immersed in deeply excavated 

 joints, solitary, 1 — 2-flowered : outer floret barren, upper fertile, 

 either enclosed, muticous : glumes 2, lower 5 — 7 -nerved, upper 

 2 — 3-nerved : scales 2, cuneate : stigmas plumose. 



(1) 0. coRYMBOSTTs. {GcBrtn.J 



Ident. Goertn. Carp. III. p. 4. — Steudel 1. c. p. 359. 



Syn. EottboeUia corymbosa, lAnn. — Roxb. I. c.p. 355. — CEgilops 

 fixaltata, Eet%. — E. punctata, JKefe. 



~ Migrav. Goertn, 1. c. t. 181, fig. 4.— Eoxb. Cor. II. t. 181. 



Spec. Chae. Culms 3 — 5-feet, erect, round, rigid, leafy at the 

 base : leaves narrow, ciliated at the base : spikes axillary, some- 

 what fascicled, filiform, the joints alteriiately flower-bearing : outer 

 glume entire, smooth. 



In pastures in Gujarat and the Deccan. 



(2) 0. PEEF0EATT7S. (Trin.) 

 Ident. Trin. Act. Petr. 1833, p. 246. 



