681 N — TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA; Lappago. 
four, simple, diverging spikes, scattered alternately round a three- 
sided rachis, nearly a foot in length Spikes sessile, with a few, 
long, straight, white hairs round their insertions, about three inches 
long. Rachis flat, with a waved keel on the underside, and coloured, 
 waved margins.— Flowers in numerous, alternate, imbricated pairs 
on the underside of the flat rachis, on unequal, short-pedicels.— 
Calyx of two, very equal, oval leaflets with a nerve or rib round the 
margins, and one down the middle.— Seeds oval, dotted with i innu- 
mezable, small pits, shining. 
LAPPAGO. Schreb. Gen. Nisi 7 
Calyx from two to three-valved.—Corol two-valved, resupine. . y i 
1. L. biflora. R. 
Culms creeping. Pedicels two-flowered ; inner. vals of the 
calyx armed with hooked. bristles. 
Phalaris muricata. Forsk. descript. 202. 
it is a small, prostrate grass, a native of the dryest niii god : 5 
on the Coromandel Coast. 
Culms pressing on the earth, and striking root from the joints from 
six to twelve inches long, ramous.— Leaves short, margi 
and waved ; mouths of the sheaths bearded — Racemes term m. 
ple, from one to two inches long -—Pedicels short, diverging, twor 
flowered.— Flowers lanceolate, echinated on the back, oF outside, 
5 diverging on all sides round the rachis, which is waved, angular, " 
striated, and. downy.— Calyx one-flowered, two-valved ; the exterior 
valve very minute, second or inner valve, (for there is no other) 
lanceolate and completely embracing the coroi on all sides, 0n the 
back and sides covered with many, strong, hooked pristles.— C^ 
rol two-valved, membranaceous, Ne = scales argo ont z 
Pistil, c. as in the genus. : 
