326 : TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Apluda. ` 
emerging. Leaves linear, smooth. Spikes three-fold. Exterior | 
valve of the calyces with a long, waved, ensiform point ; all the co- 
rollets two-valved, and awnless. bu 
A native of Bengal, where it is found floating on pools of m 
water, and blossoming about the close of the rains in October; 
Culms appearto be pereunial, a fathom ortwo long, jointed, as thick 
as the little finger, floating.— Leaves linear, acute, from one to two 
feet long, margins backwardly hispid, in other respecis smooth.— 
Spikes terminal, three in the only plant that has yet blossomed in- 
this Garden, each about six or eight inches long, a little compressed; 
when the flowers expand about noon they appear like Chevaux de 
frise, at other times they appear smooth.— Flowers in pairs, one ses- 
sile, containing one hermaphrodite, and one male floret, the otlier 
pedicelled and neuter, or with two male florets — Calyx two-valved; 
exterior valve rigid, with hispid margins and long, fat, waved, his- 
pid-margined, ensiform points; inner valve boat-shaped with a flat 
hispid keel.—Corols of each floret two-valyed. 
APLUDA. 
Polygamous. Involucre one-valved, —— e one-sessile, the - 
other pedicelled with a pedicelled neuter rudiment. .— Calyces two- 
flowered, the sessile one polygamous, the pedicelled one the same, 
or with male only. Corols two-valved. 
1. A. aristata. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. iv. 938. 
Perennial, creeping, or scandent. Leaves lanceolate. Herma- 
phrodite flower awned. — . | 
Beng. Goroma. - 
Teling. Pootstrangali. g 
Is commonly found in hedges, under the shade of trees and such 
like places. ; 
Culms creeping, or climbing, as thick as à crow-quill, jointed, co* 
loured, the lower part naked, inwardly spongy; from the joints 
spring, erect, ramous, flower-bearing branches of from one to seven 
