mn. OTRIANDRIA brGYXNIA. ^ "989. 
round, smooth.— Leaves sheathing ; sheaths half the length of the 
joints; mouths bearded.—Spikes as in P. glaucum, but larger.— 
Flowers solitary, short-pedicelled, without order.—Involucels, nu- 
merous, bristles entirely surrounding the flower; of two sorts, 
the largest twice the length of the flower, and woolly from the 
middle down, the other sort are smaller , and without wool or hairy. 
— Calyx one or two-flowered, as in the last ; exterior valve minute, 
the other two as long as the corol, of which the apex of the exteri- 
or one is somewhat three-toothed.—Seed smooth, Ter like com- 
mon oats, but smaller. — . 
Obs. It differs from P. polystachyon in having the involuce!s 
scattered round. the pedicels aud flower. It. ass: therefore = 
Kumph’s sens. caricosum. vol. vi. t. 7. J: 9. A ; 
me. P. interruptum. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 341. 
= Culms above water erect. Spikes simple, cy lindric. ; flowers crowd. 
ed, smooth, polygamous; seed smooth, | A 
“Beng. Nardula. 
 Teling. Wola. ` e 
A very large species, grows in deep standihg water. 
Culms ramous, those parts under the water swelled, as thick as 
the little finger, with many fibres from the joints; the parts above 
the water erect, about as thick as a common quill, from two to four 
feet high, smooth, involved in the sheaths of the'lcaves. — Leaves, 
sheaths longer than the joints, smooth. — Racemes or spikes simple, 
erect, columnar, from four to six inches high.— Flowers small, oval, 
 pedicelled, numerous, generally ı many, , from nearly the same place. 
— voluere entirely wanting — Calyx. two, inner glumes striated, 
dns 
* 
from six to seven nerved. — Corol, the small flower is er here. = 
Mod oblong, smooth, shining white. X— 
\ 
Pi P. curvatum. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 359. : D Lm 
Culms erect. Spikes curved ; apr pie eon herma- 
Wil; eed smooth. - dt PT a pot 
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