"$36 - "EYANDKIA DIGYNTA. ‘Poa. 
From ‘Canton in China the: seed was received into the Botanic 
"Garden, where the plants grow freely and blossom during the rains 
and the cool ‘season. | 
4. P. ciliata. R. 
Smooth, sub-erect, from one to two feet high. Panicle columnar; 
spikelets from six to twelve-flowered ; margins of all the valvelets of 
the calyces and corols ciliate. Seed globular. 
- Is generally found on a poor dry soil. 
- Root perennial.— Culms erect, rigid, smooth ; from one to three feet 
high.— Leaves smooth, mouth of the sheaths downy.— Panicle colum- 
nar, from two to four inches long, branches thereof crowded, inser 
tions hairy, spikelets from six to twelve-flowered.—Calyz, margins 
ciliate.—Corol, the margins of both valves much ciliate, the exterior . 
. one has three nerves and is pointed, the inner one two-nerved.—Seed 
obovate, smooth, brown, dropping from the corol when ripe. 
^8. P. interrupta. Kon. Mss. 
Erect, smooth, from one to three feet high ; ramifications of the li- 
near panicle short, and collected into remote fascicles. Spikelets 
from six to twelve-flowered. Seed obcordate. 
Teling. Nakurnaral. 
Grows about at the borders of rice fields. 
-Clums generally erect, from one and a half to three feet high, round, 
smooth.— Leaves narrow, long, sharp, and smooth.— Panicles erect; 
from six to twelve inches long, linear ; ramifications sessile, nearly 
erect, remote, particularly those of the lower part, where they 9r? - 
often twice their length asunder ; one, two, or more from the same 
point, which makes it appear verticelled.— Spikelets minute, pedi- 
‘celled, from six to twelve-flowered.—Corol, valves .einobth.-5 Sed | 
as in the-last two'species. 
:9. P-nutans. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 895. Retz. Obs. iv. 19+ 
Erect, smooth, from three-to five feet high, panicles contracte"? 
