Paspalum, ^o  MRIANDNIA DIGYNIA. á E 
Root perennial, with long wiry fibres.—CuZms erect, from three 
to six feet high, often ramous, smooth, filled with a spongy pith.— 
- Leaves very long, tapering to a very five point, smooth in every 
part and of a soft delicate texture.—Sheaths shorter than the janes 
on full grown plants, with a membranaceous stipulary process at 
the mouth.— Panicles as in A. Iwarancusa ; spikelets paired, but 
with only three joints.— Flowers also paired, &c..as m the former 
. Spécies, only there the lowermost pair on the most sessile of the two 
spikelets are both male, and one of them. rests upon a smooth, con- 
vex, callous receptacle instedd of a pedicel. —Rachis jointed, and 
woolly «— Calyx as in A. Iwarancusa.—Corol one-valved, a long 
black awn occupies the place of the other, which has two small fi- 
laments near its base. Nectary, &c. as in the foregoing species. 
Obs. General Martin, who sent me this grass from Lucknow, 
writes to the following effect: 
* I took particular notice of a sort of long grass which the cattle 
"were voraciously fond of, which is of so strong an aromatic aud 
pungent taste, that the flesh of the animals, as also the milk and 
butter, have a very strong scent of it. Of this grass L send you a. 
small stalk, some roots, and seed ; if you taste the latter, though oid, 
You will find it of a very pungent aromatic taste.” 
PASPALUM. Schreb. Gen. N. 81, 
Calyx oy llweréd, two-valved, valvelets rounded, equal. Corol 
of two-valves, and like the calyx. Seed adhering to the corol. 
1. P. scrobiculatum. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 330. 
Spikes, axillary and terminal, sessile, alternate, erect. Flowers al- 
temate, in two rows, or crowded, smooth, Calyces from three. 
to five-nerved. Culms dies two feet high, smooth. Seed round, 
smooth. - 
Sans, & QUE Mifudcadids STER Kodruva. | 
Beng. Koda. 
Hind. Koda-ka-choul. - ; ; E » 
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