Be ——-— TRIANDRIA DI&YNIA. 335 
about. the base of the culms, rigid margins hispid.— Panicle erect, 
linear-oblong, often tending to a conical form, composed of many 
- somewhat three-fold, verticelled, horizontal, short, rigid, secund ra- 
mifications. Spikelets many-tlowered, depending, in two” rows, 
from the under side of the ramifications.— Coro/, valves pointed, the 
- inner one rather the lar gest. 
Obs. It is employed by the brahmuns i in their religious ceremo- 
nies. Cattle do not eat it. Can this be Gramencapillaceum, &c. Pluk. 
Alm. p. 17 6. t. 34. Fig. 2.—Cusa, or Cusha, the Sanscrit name of this 
much venerated grass, was given toit ata very early period, by the Hin- 
doo Philosophers, and believed, by Sir William Jones, to have been 
consecrated to the memory of Cush, one of the sons of Ram.” See 
Asiatic Researches, vol. iii. p. 490. If so, we have here a very anci- 
ent precedent for the present very convenient practice of giving such 
arbitr ary names to plants, and to their families, 
5. P. ciliaris. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd: i. 402. 
Smooth, sub-erect, from one to two feet high. Panicle contracted, 
linear, with the lower ramifications remote. Spikelets from six to 
twelve-flowered; inner valvelets of the corol ciliate. | 
Delights in the same soil'and situation with the last described 
Species. ; 
- Culms near the base procumbent, above erect for one or two 
féet.— Leaves as in the last.— Panicle linear, from three to six 
iuches long, the ramifications short, those of the lower part stand at 
some small distance, their insertions are not hairy. —QCalyx from six 
to twelve-flowered, not ciliate.— Corol, only the inner valve ciliate. 
TEN 2 EH D 
p: 
iea slender, fivin twelve to eighteen inches high. Leaves slen-. 
der. Panicle cylindric, crowded with short, adpressed, ramous, al- 
ternate branches; spikelets from six to twehseslowered flowers di- 
audrous, i inner valve of the corol ciliate. 
