5 / - 
«Punicum. , TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. i .295 
17. P. cimicinum. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 344. 
Culms erect, hairv, from one to two feet high. Racemes pe- 
di uncled, corymbed ; flowers polygamous, i in pairs; exterior valvelets 
of the c: alyces fringed ; corol awned. 
Milium eimicinum. Mant. 184. 
A rare plaut, native of ground that has been lately in cultiva- 
lion, t 
Culms from one to two feet. high, sub-erect , hairy.— Leaves short 
and broad, hairy, and fringed round the margin; sheaths also hairy. 
—Racemes from four to ten; when more than four or five, the rest 
-are elevated on a common peduncle above the point from. whence 
the first. four or Bee issue; all are pedicelled, bowing, secund.— ; 
Vloxers i in two rows and in pair s, scarcely ever siugle.— Calyz, bor- 
der of the i inper valve fringed, with red hairs —Corol, the arista is 
sometimes wanting, aud its valves three-nerved ; in ming meres is a - 
: second, or male floret as in spe species of Fanicum. 
is) PI ET R. 
Sheaths of the leaves bristly. Spikes numerous, corymbed. Ca- 
lyces two-valved. Seeds oblong, smooth. : ` 
Teling. Cheepa- bora-gaddi. x 
Tis species I have found only in tlie ds amongst: the Circar | 
mountains ; it grows toa great size in stand’ng sweet water.- 
* 
Culms of great extent, creeping, or floating, with their extremi- 
ties efected above the water; on dry ground I have also found it, 
where it is in general from one to four feet high.— 
grasses ; sheaths covered with stiff white hairs,— cone cory mbed, 
| numerous ; From four to eight inches long, filiform, sub-erect, se- 
cund, level-toped. Rachis, common striated ; partial three-sided. 
— Flowers oblong, in to rows, paired ; one very short pedicelled, 
the other longer.—Calyz two-valved ; the exterior valve small, the 
Other as large as the corol, and siriated, but no third oF inner 
valve.— Corol as in the family.— Seed oblong, smooth white. 
