. $58  TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Hordeum. 
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` ry like R. Thomea and setacea ; and were they not two-flowered in 
the same calyx I should no doubt have taken it for R. incurvata, ; 
Linn. r ; ; E ipd 
Culms scarcely more than may be called the scapes of the spikes, 
the whole plants being but two or three inches high.— Leaves ma- 
ny, filiform ; rachis rigid, and with the sheaths somewhat pilose.— 
Spikes terminal, solitary, subulate, about two inches long. Kachis 
not jointed, but alternately excavated on the opposite sides for the 
reception of the flowers.—Calyx two-valved, two-flowered; valves 
. very unequal, the exterior being many times larger than the inner - 
one, which is a minute scale in the bottom of the excavations of the 
rachis, and not readily detected.— Florets two in each calyx, both 
hermaphrodite, one-sessile and the other short pedicelled, each with 
a corol of two equal membranaceous, smooth valves. 
 HORDEUM. Schreb. Gen. N. 129. — x 
Calyx lateral, two-valved, valves narrow, accuminate, distant, als 
together forming a six-leaved involucre, one-flowered, by threes at 
each toothlet of the rachis. . 
1. H. herastichon. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Wilid. i. 473. | 
^. All the flowers hermaphrodite and awned, placed regularly in six 
rows. x ; : | 
Sans. a7:, Yuva, ferra Situshooka. 
- Beng. Juba. — epee : 
. Arab. She-eer. X e ; di. 
` This species is much cultivated in most of the temperate parts 
of Hindoostan during the cool season. 
Obs. I have had specimens and abundance of seeds of this and al- 
so of what I consider to be Siberian Barley (H. coeleste) both ga- 
thered in 1818 in Tartary, the latter in Dapa, by my highly esteem- - 
ed friend Capt. W. S. Webb, surveyor at Kemaoon, who has favored 
me with the following observation on them: “These two sorts of 
Barley are called Oo-a, and deserve to be particularly examined. 
They are not known in thedow lands of India, produce the hardiest 
