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308 WRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. - 
35. P. strictum. R. S UN ey 
Culms straight, from two to three feet high. - Spikes compound - 
cylindric, straight, with numerous expanding spikelets. Glumes of 
the calyx hairy, and acute. — Corol three-valved, the innermost one 
awned. ; a pale 
Beng. Gang-bena. puo 
A native oi Bengal, where it is found, though rarely, on dry bar- 
ren spois. diog t h 
Culms straight, from one to three feet high, slender as a crow quill, 
hairy, particularly at and near the joints.— Leaves short, straight, 
broadest at the base, and from thence tapering to a fine point ; a 
little hairy, particularly underneath.—Sheaths more hairy, their 
lets.— Calyx, valvelets acute ; two exterior with a few straight hairs, 
inner one smooth ; corol-like.— Coro] three-valved, the inner and a 
smaller one awned. . CHE 
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36. P. hispidulum. Retz. Obs.v. p. 18. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd.i.346 — 
Culms erect, from three to four feet high. Spikes panicled, erect, 
lanceolate ; spikelets secund ; flowers two-fold, both sub-sessile; ; 
valvelets of the calyx bristly, the middle one daggered, the inner o% l x 
awned ; corol three-valved ; seed ovate, pointed, polished. — aem 
! Beng. Bura-Shama. 6e m 
Grows on the borders of rice lands, and rich moist places. 
ver cultivated nor made any use of. ; BT 
Culms erect. with a few erect branches.— Leaves long, marrow 4 
fine-pointed, smooth.—Spikes straight, panicled, composed eii ; 
merous, secund, erect. spikelets, surrounding the common four, 2 
five, or six-sided rachis.— Flowers numerous, almost always (99. | 
together and equally sub-sessile.—Ca/yr, all the three valves m i: 
with numerous sharp bristles issuing from the nerves of the glume* ; 
