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T D E po CTRANDIIA. DIGYNIA. C Minis. 
| a ds M. Murus Linn Spe Pl. ed. Willa. iv. 945... Corom. Pie 2, 
CINE. 0 arias t S 
ulms c creeping, ndo, from nine to tighten inches high, Spikes 
ay solitary ; ; exterior valve of the hermaphr odite calyx panduriform and 
 emarginate ; male calyx two-flowered. ea = 
Teling. Nalla-punookoo. ; 
Is a native of dry elevated sandy ground. * 
Culms several, ramous, diffuse near the base, rooting at the. joints, 
extremities ascending, from nine to eighteen iüches long, as thick 
as a crow quill, compressed, smooth, not piped.— Leaves small and 
smooth; mouths of the sheaths increased by a lacerated membra- 
naceous border or stipule.— Spikes solitary, terminal, and from the 
exterior arils peduncled, secund, jointed, smooth, alittle compress- 
ed, from one to two inches long.— Peduncles articulated, and bract-. 
ed at the middle. — Flowers, the hérmaphrodite ones occupy. a Wav- a 
ed row- of pits on the four sides of the ds while. iaa; ones. 
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possess two sides, the back i haked -> oclo e Beles z 
HERMAPHRODITE FLOWERS. Calye &Gxalved, ónccoweréd ; 
— the exterior valvelet has a broad coloured margin, which is emargi- 
nate, and deeply indented ‘at the sides, like a fiddle ; inner valvelet 
oblong, lodged ina pit of the rachis.— Coro two-valved, membra- _ 
naceous. Nectary | two obcordate, crenulated scales embrace the E 
germ.—Stamens three. Styles two. 
Marg rrowERs. Calyx two-flowered, two-valved, valvelets | 
E nearly equal, boat-shaped .— Corol with two o membranaceous valves. 
Stamens. three ae none. | 
Tw M. D Linn. xi Pi. ed. Wilid. 3r 04e Coron: PL mde 
N. 118. | 
Ramous, sub-erect, btn, sd oue 1 to two feet high; "pis m. 
cicled. Hermaphrodite calyx oval, and rugose ; male or neuter one- 
_ flowered. Io : ; 
‘Grows among bushes. : . 3 
|, Culms very ramous, nearly erect, filiform, do from one to two. 
