Paspalum. - : TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, : 283 
Obs. Cattle are very fond of these two species, whether green or 
d 
da: P. ongiforum: Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. 1. 332. Retz. Obs. 
—Nul5; 
- Spikes paired, ra horizontal. Calyces oblong, obtuse, 
smooth. Culins creeping. 
Teretu-pullu. Rheed. mal. 12. p. 81. t. 44. 
Paspalum dongiflorum. Retz, Obs. iv. p. 15. ant 
_A native of low pasture ground. Compare it with P, distil. 
Ins. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i 4. 599. Sut. T - 
Root. creeping. —Culms creeping, with ‘dice extremitign ascends * 
ing six or eight inches high, jointed, smooth. — Leaves. sheathing, 
alternate, bifarious, short ; mouths of the sheaths bearded. —Spikes 
paired, terminal, sessile, spreading, secund.— Flowers in two rows, 
alternate, oblong, somewhat paired, smooth.— Calyx and corol with- 
out nerves, 
. 4. P. longifolium. R. / 
Erect, simple. Leaves as long as the culms. Panicle of many 
simple, alternate, diverging spikes scattered round a three-sided 
tachis. Valvelets of the calyx three-nerved. Seed oval, lucid, a 
marked with minute pits. 
Oh what country this is a native is uncertain. It appeared i in the 
Botanic Garden in 1807, in a place where plants from Sumatra 
bad been planted, it is therefore more than PARERE Y that the seeds 
Vere in the earth. m es 
Culms several from one root, simple, straight, jointed, nearly | 
erect, round and smooth, height of the whole plant when in flower 
above three feet — Leaves long, viz. from one to three feet, sheaths 
included, slender, acute, smooth, except the edges when rubbe 
backward, Sheaths longer than the joirits of the culm, and: sn 
*Xcept at the top, where there are a few, long, soft hairs near the 
short seariose ligula.— Panicle composed of fton twelve to twenty- 
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