Kyllingia.  TRJANDRIÁ MONOGYNIA. 185 
striated, leafy, jointed, butnot piped.— Leaves sheathing, shorter than 
the culms, hairy, ciliated on the margin, concave on the inside, not 
keeled.— Heads sub-globular, compound, axillary, and terminal, the 
terminal one is considerably longer, they are composed of several oval, 
imbricated, many-flowered, sessile spikés.  Involucre of the termi- 
_ nal head one or at most two small leaves ; of the others, nothiag more 
thau the sheath of the leaf from whence they issue.—Scales of the 
ameuts, or spikes, corol, &c. as in the genus. aes 
— KYLLINGIA. Schreb. Gen. Ng. 
Ament imbricated. - Flowers with calyx and corol of two chaffy- 
valves each. Seed one. oe mins SH 
1. K. monocephala. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. 1. 256. Vahl. in PI. 
2. 579. 
Rottb. gram. 13. t. 4. f. 4. 
“Culms six to eighteen inches high, triangular; head terminal, sin- 
gle; involucres three or four. Seeds cbcordate, without angles. 
Pee-Mottenga. Rheed. mal. 12. p- 99. t. 53. 
- Gramen capitatum. Rumph. amb. 6. p 8. t. 8. f. 9. 
Beng. Sweta gothoobi ; Nirbishee, its fragrant aromatic root being 
accounted an antidote to poisons, xs 
.. Common over India om low shady pasture grouud, when totally 
shaded the beads are generally more green, which is rather uncom- 
mon. : 
Root fibrous, and stoloniferous.—Culms erect, from six to eigh- ; 
teen inches high, generally about eight; three-sided, smooth, make C 
*d except near the base; ai cles sharp, and sides hollowed.— Leaves — 
thing, as long as the culm, smooth, sharp keeled.—#ead ternis — 
hal, sessile oval, generally white.—Jnvolucre three-leaved, unequal, 
the largest leaf as long as the culm. Back of the glumes of the | oro 
hispid.— Stamens three. Stigma three-cleft.— Seed obliquely 
"^; much compressed, smooth, light brown. — 
