310 TRIANDRIA DIGYNTA. - opos. 
16. P. multiflora. R. 
` Sub-erect, smooth, from six to eighteen inches high. Panicle 
longer than the rest of the plant, nodding. Spikelets crowded, from 
fifty to seventy-flowered. Seed globular, 3 
Is found on dry elevated places. 
Culms nearly erect, naked, except at the base, from six to twelve 
inches high, round, and smooth.— Leaves one or twọ near the base ` 
of each culm, short; mouths of the sheaths a little hairy .— Panicle 
oblong, bowing ; ramifications sub-sessile, short, filiform, simple, , 
the lower collected into one or two remote branches ; the upper ones 
alternate. Spikelets pedicelled, very long, linear, from fifty to seven- 
ty-flowered.—Calyx smooth, obtuse —Ccrol smooth, outer valve 
three-nerved.— Seed round, smooth, brown. 
17. P. unioloides. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 393. Rete..Obs-¥- 19. 
Erect, smooth, from one to two feet high. Panicle ovate ; rami- - 
fications short, simple, below fascicled; above solitary, horizontal 5 
spikelets long-pedicelled, from sixteen to twenty-flowered. 
, oblong. Se 
Beng. Konee. “is 
_ A most elegant species, a native of dry elevated situations. 
- Culms, below ramous, with a small portion resting on the ground, 
the rest erect, and from one to two feet high, round and smooth — 
‘Leaves few, small, and smooth; mouths of the sheaths bearded.— 5 
Panicles half as long as the whole plant, erect, oblong, thin; ramifi- 
cations peduncled, filiform, disposed as in multiflora. Spikelets ovate, 
from sixteen to twenty-flowered, generally of a bluish purple colour. — 
Corol, outer valve three-nerved, as in P. multiflora.— Seed oblong, — 
smooth, brown. e 
18. P. flexuosa. R. 
Sub-erect, flexuose, noddiug, smooth, from eighteen to twenty-four 
inches high. Panicle ovate, crowded ; ramifications solitary, «f 
