350 — Ed TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. E 
| ARISTIDA. Schreb. Gen. N. 195. 
07 Caylx two-valved, one-flowered. Corol one-valved, with three 
 awns at the top. - | ! Mess 
T. A. sétacea. Retz. Obs. iv. 22. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Wilid.i. 468. 
Erect, smooth, froin two to four feet high. Panicle linear-oblong, 
«composed of fifteen to twenty sub-alternate, erectish ramifications. - 
Teling. Shipur-gadi. - : 
"Grows in a dry, barren, binding soil. ee ES 
Root perennial.—Culms straight, generally simple, from two fe 
four feet high, and.about as thick as a crow quill at the base, solid, 
„and of a very firm ligneous texture, round aud smooth.—Leaves fw, 
arrow, margins involute, nerveless, smooth.——Panicle bowing with 
the wind, linear, from six to twelve inches long, composed of sub, 
sessile, remote, adpressed ramifications, —Calyz, corol, &c. as im. 
the family, except that the three awns are erect. VR 
Obs. Cattle do not eat it, yet it is very useful. The Telingapa- 
gper-makers construct their frames of the culms; it also serves tomake - 
brooms and tooth-picks. It is employed in. preference to other grass- 
«es for making the screens called Taities, for this purpose itis spread 
Ahin on-bambooframes, aud tied down, these placed on the weather 
side of the house, during the hot land winds and kept constantly wae. 
tered duriag the heat of the day, renders the temperature of the ais 
in the house exceeding pleasant, compared to what it is without. 
. Phe’ Thermometer in the eut side exposed to the wind, but note — 
the sua, will then be at eae hundred or one “hundred and fifteen 
degrees, or even more; and within, ifthe Tatties are properly dies 
posed and well watered, they will keep it down to. from eighty-five . 
to ninety, with two er even three rows of Patties, made very thin, 
aud all kept well watered, the Thermometer, when it blows hardy — 
may be brought down to eighty, but then it is absolutely chilling, 
, and disagreeabl y cold. The difference between the open air and this 
réfreshed air, is to the feeling inconceivably great. The There 
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