334 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. - : Poa. 
_ Leaves as in other grasses, smooth ; mouths of the sheaths bearded. 
—Panicle large, oval, composed of long; alternate, filiform, simple, 
expanding, secund branches. Spikelets alternate, from four to six- 
flowered, short-pedicelled, expanding, in two rows from one side 
of the simple branches. 
3. P. procera. R. 
Smooth, erect, from three to five feet high. Ligula large; rami- 
fications of the panicle simple ; spikelets pedicelled, rather ropan 
linear, many-flowered. , 
Teling. Rewa. 
Delightsin a moist rich soil. 
Culms nearly erect, branchy, from three to five feet high, ron pur 
smooth, much covered by the sheaths of the leaves.— Leaves long, 
slender and smooth. Sheaths longer than the joints, with their mouths | 
crowned with a long ragged membranaceous procesi- Panicle 
large, from nine to eighteen inches long, oblong, bowing a little, 
composed of numerous; long, filiform, expanding racemes, scatter- 
ed round the common rachis; which is filiform, waved, three-sided, 
and hispid.. Spikelets alternate, pedicelled, linear, remote, many- 
flowered. | agi) 
4. P. cynosuroides. Linn. Sp Pl. ed. Willd. i. 393. 
Smooth, straight, from one to three feet high. Leaves long and. 
acute. Panicle straight, sub-cylindrical ; ramifications horizontal, 
spikelets depending, from six to twelve-flowered. 2 
Uniola bipinnata, Linn. Sp. Pl. 104. : 
Sans NS. RR, Koosha Ras Kootha, gä, Dubha, afa Puvitrung. > 
Cusa or Cusha. Asiat. Res. iii. 255. and 490. and i iv. 949. Pa: 
Beng. Koosha. Y 
Telinz. Durbha, Dubha, or Durpa. — 
A strong coarse species, a native of dry barren ground. 
Root creeping, perennial.—Culms straight, rigid, round, smooth, 
from one to three feet high. Leaves numerous, very long, chiefy 3 
