332 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. — Pommereulla; — 
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it stands om a. short pedicel and consists-of two obcordate, awned: 
valvelets ; awn and. margin of the. valvelets coloured. 
Obs. Cattle eat it tillin flower ; after whicli Lneyer. saw.any animal, 
touch it. ; 
“4, C, polystachya. R. 
Spikes from ten to twenty, fascicled. Exterior glume of the her- - 
maphrodite flower with ciliate margins; neuter florets two, with sins 
gle smooth valves. ; 
A native of the Peninsula of India., 
Culms below procumbent for a little way, then erect, and about. 
two feet high.— Leaves as in other grasses, and smooth,—Spihes — 
about sixteen, in a terminal, sub-fastigiate umbelliform fas cle, 
secund with the alternate spikelets, or flowers pointing to opposite 
sides, length from two to three inches.— Ca/yx of two, unequa í 
ceolate, boat-shaped, smooth, permanent awnless. valves, Fahich: 
contain one, two-valved, hermaphrodite, awned flower; and two 
peduncled, one-valved, awned, neuter florets. The exterior, valvelet 
of, t the hermaphrodite flower has its margins ciliate. 
POMMEREULLA. Schreb. Gen. N. 97. 
Calyx, glumes two-valved, from three to four-flowered ;  ealceles 
four-cleft, awned on the back. 
i P. Caie Linn. Sp. Pil, ed. Wilid. i. 314. y Fald Te. Pl. 
ii, 393. R. Corom. Pli. N. 131. .- | 
A very singular, small, rare grass; growing under. bushes on ade so 
uncultivated ground. = 
Root, Culms, and Leaves, as described by Konig, but mine hast the, ; 
spike compound and secund, the rest as he says, alba base. abvollu-. 
ta folia sub-spatheformi.—Spiculis distichus, each having an invo". 
lucre of two, lanceolate, acute, membranaceous valves. Witbin nest; 
two valves, is a short, clubbed, downy pedicel supporting ! the par til. 
spikelets of four flowers, with their common calyx, it is joined. to » 
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