Arundo — —  TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. i peg 349 
T to five-flowered ; “plates duit; the largest shorter than the 
exterior valve of. the corol.— Corol, exterior valve three-nerved, taper- 
ing into long fine subulate points, inner valve scarcely half so long. 
—Stamens often only two, and the pistil is frequently wanting. 
Obs. It does not agree with Retzius's description of A. Karka in. 
the number of flowers in the: calyx. Pipes are made of the culms, 
particularly those used by the pee m Puy about the dancing 
snakes,  . 
In Bengal it is more Juxuriant than on thé’ Cii "The common 
: Durma mats of that place are made of the stalks split open. Vessels 
from the pot of Calcutta are kaemy dunnaged With them. 
“eS: A. bengalensis. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 455. Retz. Obs. Y. E 
` Culms from six to ten feet high, fistulous. Leaves bifarious, - 
sword-shaped, drooping. Panicle lax ; valvelets of. the calyx equal, 
from two-to three-flowered; exterior valve of the eorol woolly, dag- — 
gered, and three-nerved. 
` Beng. Gaba-nul. 
This elegant species is found growing in ditches, &c. low places 
in the vicinity of Calcutta, where it blossoms daring. the month of 
October and November. oa í 
' Culms erect, from six to ten feet high, fistulous.— Leaves very 
numerous, approximate, bifarious, drooping, sword-shaped, from one 
to two inches broad at the base, from thence taper to a fine point; 
smooth on both sides, and.in the margins.—Sheaths also smooth, 
with along membranaceous margin round the mouth.— Panicle oval, 
lax, from oue to two feet long, erect; ram fications alternate, ramous, 
drooping a little.— Flowers pedicelled, scattered.—Calyr two or 
three-flowered ; valves tiearly equal, and of the length of the flow- 
ers. — Corol, exterior valve three-nerved, and woolly on ‘the back, 
With a very fine, long, taper point. - Inner valve small and smooth. 
——Nectari y two, cunei-form scales embrace the germ on the two sides. 
Obs. The wool which girds the base of the corol, in most of the 
species, į Is in this spec! ies, found grow! ing on n the back ot its exterior 
valve, 
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