t; 3 and 4. empty glumes; 5. flowering glume; 6 and
7. flowering glume and its palea; 8. the ovary, stamens and lodicules.]

The _spikelets_ are very small, one-flowered, half immersed in the
alternating distichous cavities of the rachis. There are three _glumes_
in the spikelet. The _first glume_ is very minute, hyaline and sunk in
the hollow of the rachis. The _second glume_ is the longest,
linear-lanceolate, rigid, tip obtuse or emarginate, slightly convex with
a broad thickened centre and recurved in fruit. The _third glume_ is
shorter than the second, hyaline, broader obtuse, semi-circular in
profile, excessively membranous, with the callus bearded and paleate;
_palea_ is smaller than the glume. There are three stamens. Grain is
oblong, terete, free.

This small grass is very common all over the Presidency in the plains in
moist places.

_Distribution._--Plains of India, Burma and Ceylon.

GLOSSARY.

A

Acuminate applied to the apex of a leaf having a gradually
diminishing point, 49.

Acute applied to the apex of a leaf distinctly and sharply
pointed but not drawn out, 53.

Adventitious roots which do not arise from the radicle or its
roots subdivisions, but from parts other than these, 7.

Aleurone layer a special peripheral layer in the grain of grasses,
consisting of cells filled with proteid granules, 18.

Amplexicaul applied to the base of the leaf when it embraces the
stem, 12.

Apiculate said of the apex when it has a sharp, short point.

Appressed lying flat for the whole length of the part or organ,
59.

Articulate jointed, 45.

Auricle outgrowth at the sides close to the ligular region,
11.

Awned having an _awn_, that is, a bristle-like appendage,
especially on the glumes of grasses.

B

Bifarious disposed in two rows or ranks on the two sides, 49.

Binate in pairs, 53.

Blade the expanded portion of a leaf, 2, 10.

Bristles stiff hairs, 45.

Bulbous based having an inflated base, 66.

Bulliform cells thin walled cells occurring, at intervals, on the
epidermis of some grasses, 35.

Bundle sheath sclerenchymatous cells or fibres found round the
vascular bundles of the monocotyledonous type, such as
thos