| Rottbællia, TRIANDRIA PIGYNIA. 353 
! ; 
| feet high.— Leaves numerous, very hairy, stiff and sharp.— Spikes 
terminal, and axillary, peduncled, several together, small, compress- 
ed, from half an inch to an inch long.— Panicles as in the former. 
Rachis jointed, much waved, and excavated #% in Rottbeellia.— 
- Flowers from four to ten of each sort, their situation exactly as in tlie 
_ last species, viz. the hermaphrodite occupy the forepart, while the 
male, or neuter are placed on the sides, the former are > globular, and 
the latter lanceolate. E 
HERMAPHRODITE riowers. Calyx one- flowered, two-valv- 
ed, exterior valve round or rigid, and very rugose ; ; inner valve less 
rigid. —Corol two-valved, membranaceous.—Stamens xm 0s 
wo, 
Mazz. or NEUTER FLOWERS. Calyx byro-valvéd. one- flowered. 
yet two-valved. —Stamens three or none. 
ROTTBG:LLIA. Schreb. Gen. N. 1572. 
Rachis (generally) jointed, variously excavated for the reception of 
one, or two flowers in a two-valved calyx, in each excavation. 
~ AR. glabra. R eee 
Near. the base creeping, with extremities erect, sthooth. Leaves 
- bifarious, all hermaphrodite. Calyx: one-flow ered, corol three-valved. 
— Beng. Buksha. ' 
A native of Bengal, where it grows on pasture lands, the borders 
: dhs rice fields, and other moist places. Cattle are. fond of it. 
a Culms jointed, smooth, compressed, filled with pith, creeping 
Near the principal root for a foot or more, the remaining part from 
Me to two,-or even three feet, erect.— Leaves alternate, bifarious, 
— Approximate, short, spreading, ensiform, smooth.— Sheaths shorter - 
| Chan the j joints of the culm, smooth .—Spikes axillary, solitary or in | 
pairs, with a solitary terminal one, subulate, three-sided, smooth, 
| hort-peduncled, the peduncles with generally a part of the spikes | 
: in the sheaths of the leaves; general length from two to three - 
a itches. — Flowers opposite, in genera! all, or the greatest part herma- 
: as 
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