"uu — ` TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Ponictm, - 
there is an awn, or the rudiments of a second floret accompanying it. 
—Calyz, the exterior glume as large as the next within it, and end- 
ing in a long waved, purple awn ; exterior glume rather longer.— 
Corol no neuter, nor male floret Bend oblong, smooth; slightly n 
three-nerved. 
Obs. Càttle are not fond of it. 
28. P. Burmanni. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 339. Retz, Obs. 
- nN. 96. i i, 
+ Culms, creeping. Leavés lanceolate, hairy ; flowers hermaphro- 
dite; all the valvelets of the ides hairy, and awieds Seed slen- 
der, smooth, pointed. 
P. hirtellum. Burm. Ind. 94. t. 19. f. 1. 
Hippogrostis amboinica. Rumph: amb. vi. p. 14.t. 5. f. 9. 
This species is always found ow ‘pasture g ground, ander the shade 
of large trees. 
Culms, creeping, branchy, with their extremities erect.—Leaves_ 
sheathing, lanceolate, waved, hairy; sheaths half the length of the 
joints ; very hairy.— Spikes compound, secund, erect. Spikelets from- 
four to eight, alternate, secund, adpressed. Rachis, common and par- , 
tial three-sided.— Flowers generally pairéd; one sessile the other  . 
pedicelled.— Ca/yrz, the two' exterior glumes are hairy, and have 
long awns , that of the inner is shorter and smoother. 
` 
—93. P. stagninum. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 337. 
Culms, from one to four feet high. Leaves smooth. Flowers po- 
lygamous, three-fold, sub-sessile. ` n hh and hispid ; a 
valvelets awned. TEDS 
. Beng. Dul. 
T: bie. Peddu-woondooi cin 
Delights in wet, cultivated, paddy lands. 
Culms, towards the base’ r esting on the ground, and striking root ; : 
above erect, which part is from one to four feet high.— Leaves $ 
smooth, soft, with only the mouths of the sheaths ciliate.— Spikes 
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