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never saw it, nor, so far as I can find, is it known so low down as 
Bengal, otherwise I might have thought it Kénig’s S. bengalense. . 
Lod 
oS canaliculatum. R. i 
anne erect, (from eight to twelve feet high.) Leaves subu- 
late, deeply channelled, very long. Panicles linear-oblong, ramifica- 
tions simple, and verticelled ; calycine valves with thick callous 
base and fringed margins, corol one-valved. : 
A most beautiful stately species, a native of Bengal in most thick- , 
est, &c. where the soil is rich, flowering in August and September. 
Culms about as thick as a common ratan, incrusted with a white 
substance under the sheaths ; filled with pith c Lands from five to 
seven a flt long, semi-cylindric, no where. thicker than a pack thread, 
ed at the mouth. — Panicle sub-eyiindric. about two feet longis wav- | 
ing with its immense quantity of silver-coloured long, soft hair, to 
every breeze.— Flowers paired, one sessile, the other pedicelled. Ca- 
lycine valves are remarkable on account of their large thick smooth 
callous base. 
ANTHISTIRIA. Schreb. Gen. N. 1567. 
d nous. E one-valved, seven-flowered, hermaphro- 
dite, solitary, with a two-valved, one-flowered calyx, and corol of one — 
valve and an awn. Accessary florets male or neuter, six ; four ses- 
sile resembling a inm aud two pedicelled, ae structure various. 
A. ciliata. Linn: Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. iv. 899. [ : 
Erect. Leaves taper from the ciliate base. Accessary florets two | 
= three-valved neuter, exterior valve of the sessile flower pup, : 
. Ciliate near the apex. 
4. ciliata. Gaert. Carp. ii. p. 465. t. 75. cd m Ee 
An erect annual species, a native of various parts of Indi 
Peats about the close of the rains, in October and Noven 
Continues during the cool season. E aii; emai dd yo. us 
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