Manisuris. | TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. - |. goa 
meter in the sun; a£ this season rises to from one hundred and thirty 
- to one hundred and forty. "This contrivance we received from Bengal, 
and by it the hot season which used to be so much dreaded, is now 
tenderéd to those who can keep within doors tolerable. I have never 
observed any bad effects from this cool moist ait ; however the hot 
season is the most — of the whole year. 
g A. Hisa Linn. Sp. Pi. ed. Willd. i, 459. 
Culms diffuse; about two feet long, — Panicle oval, large, thing 
 tamificalions spreading, two-forked. 
"Teling. Shilpuroo-kalli. 
This species is a native of the same soil with the last described... : 
Culms depressed, stragsling, crooked, rigid, somewhat brachys 
about two feet long.— Leaves as in the last species. Panicle large, 
‘oval, thin; direction various, composed of diverging, génerally twda- 
deft peduncles avd pedicels.—Calyz, corol, Xo- as in the genus. — 
Obs, This species is of no use that I know of. 
-S. A. depressa. Retz. Obs. iv. 22. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 461... 
Ascending, ramous, from twelve to eighteen inches long. Pani- 
tle linear, of six to Aight alternate ramifications ; punc of the caly- f 
ces keeled. — — 
Teling. Nalli-pootiké. AT 
Is found upon the same kind of Jeu with the two ns speci 
Culmsbelow depressed, ramous ; above ascending, filiform, round, . 
smooth, solid, rigid ; from twelve to eighteen inehes high.— Leaves _ 
as in the former .— Panicle smaller, and with fewer ramifications 
than in A. selacea.— Calyz, the glumes have a large green keel.— 
: Coro], &c as in the genus. —- 
w This is also s so far as T know, tecil useless, 
MANISURIS. Schreb. Gen. N. 1570. 
Polygamous.. Rachis jointed. Hermaphrodite calyx MoA £ 
. me-flowered. Corol two-valved, less than thé calyx. Male, or neu- 
| ter čalyx two-valved, one ‘or two-flowered. - Coral two-valy ed. 
