. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. 302 CLASSIFICATION. Fig. 271.—One-flowered Spikelet of Dhan or Rice Pair of empty glutnes. p, Palea. :. Flowerings glume. s, Stamens. /, Lodicules. s£t Stigma. panicle. The spikelets (fig. 270) are usually enclosed at the base by two empty bracts named glumes (outer or empty, glumes) (), one placed a little above the other; these glumes are succeeded by one or more glumes (flowering glumes) {), arranged distichously on the short rachis, and each of these embraces a single flower (although one or more of them are occasionally empty). Within
. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. 302 CLASSIFICATION. Fig. 271.—One-flowered Spikelet of Dhan or Rice Pair of empty glutnes. p, Palea. :. Flowerings glume. s, Stamens. /, Lodicules. s£t Stigma. panicle. The spikelets (fig. 270) are usually enclosed at the base by two empty bracts named glumes (outer or empty, glumes) (), one placed a little above the other; these glumes are succeeded by one or more glumes (flowering glumes) {), arranged distichously on the short rachis, and each of these embraces a single flower (although one or more of them are occasionally empty). Within and facing each flowering glume is a small 2-nerved .glume known as a palea (/>). Within the palea and the flowering glume are two minute scales called lodicules (/), which are regarded as rudimentary perianth-leaves. Stamens (j) are usually 3, but in Rice and Bamboo the number is 6; the anthers are versa- tile and pendulous. Ovary superior {ov), syracarpous, i-celled with a single erect, anatropous ovule; stigm>a {st) usually 2, feathery. Fruit an achene (caryopsis) with the seed closely ad- herent to the thin pericarp, the latter again more or less adherent to the palea and sometimes also to the flowering glume; the outer glumes also in i-flowered spikelets as of Rice (figs. 271, 272) may be more or. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bose, G. C. London, Blackie & Son Ltd.
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