ea 
Poa: ATIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 333° 
the. involucre. by: an-articulation. and*dreps: off most: readily, par- 
. ticularly when dry, leaving'the involucre attached to the rachis.— 
Calyx, Corol, and. Stamens, are as Konig describes them; but the 
germ is obcordate, and there are always two styles with feathery re- 
curved stigmas.—Seed as he describes it. 
POA, Schreb. Gen, N. 114. 
Calyx two-valved, containing: many. fioimett of two. unequal. valy-. 
lets disposed alternately on distichous spikelets.. 
1. P. bifaria. Vahl. symbol. ii. 19. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd.i; 401. 
Smooth; culms straight, from one to two feet high. Spike ter- 
minal, straight; secund.: Spikelets sessile, alternate, bifarious, the 
inferior from four to six-flowered, above many-flowered. 
^ Feling. Wooda-tallum. 
- "Y believe Konig called it Poa malabarica. 
~ Grows on. mountains and. other. dry situations. 
‘Culms»straight; simple, from twelve to twenty-four inches high, a 
little compressed, smooth.— Leaves small, smooth.—Spikes straight, 
secund, from four to eight inches long. Spikelets alternate, sessile, - 
lanceolate, in two spreading rows, though issuing from one side of 
the common rachis.—Calyz below, from four to six-flowered ; above 
many. flowered. 
2. P. chinensis. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 395+ 
Smooth, from two to four feet high.  Panicle-of many alternate, 
simple, expanding, secund ramifications ;. Spikelets SU: eltirt- 
pedicelled, from four to six-flowered. 
Beng. Bura-pini-nuti. 
A large, beautiful species, growing on the borders of wis courses, 
and places where there is much moisture. 
Culms ramous, creeping near the base, above: Mid from 
two to four feet high, — part smooth; and a little compressed. 
* 
