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Spikes solitary, secund. Polygamous flowers on the front with neuter 
“ones on the sides. A am 
— Beng. Bura-swooate. 4 . : 
Teling. Konda panookoo. 
A native of mountains. 
Root consisting of strong woody fibres.— Culms erect, ramous, à 
little compressed, inwardly of a spongy nature, from six to ten feet 
high, and as thick as the little- finger near the base, were they are 
armed with strong and short, white bairs .— Leaces large and numer- 
ous, smooth on the outside, and hairy on the inside ; margins bispid, 
sheaths very hairy ; hairs elevated on glandular points, very stiff and 
sharp. — Spikes: terminal, and from the exterior axills, generally. soli- 
tary, cylindric, &c.— Flowers of three sorts, hermaphrodite, male, | 
and neuter, the first and second occupy alternate pits or one side of 
the spike, while the neuter stand on each side of them, so that the 
spike may be called secund .— Calyx of the hermaphrodite and 
male floret two-valved.—Corol.as in the last.—Stamens; &c. as in 
- the genus.-- Calyz of the neuter flower tw o-valved, valvelets oblong. 
` —Gorol, glumes two, membranaceous. 
4. R. corymbosa. Linn. Sp. Pi. di Witt. i. 446. Corom. Pi, ii. 
N. 181. 
Polygamous, erect, sina from three to five fests Dipl: ‘Spikes 
fascicled, terminal and axillary ; rachis jointed; flowers alternate, on 
opposite sides of the spike. Calyces generally spes 
Teling. Pedda-panookoo. — 
R. punctata. Retz. Obs. iii. 12. 
Aegilops eraltata. Retz. Obs. ii. 27. 
A native of low rich pasture ground, grows in erect tufts. — 
Culms many, straight, mostly naked, the sheaths of the leaves be- 
ing short and covering but a small part of them; round and smooth, _ 
from three to five feet high, and like those of the last species, 
very firm, and not piped.— Leaves a few, from six to twelve inches 
long ; margins soniptimes, fringed with a few hairs ; sheaths short 
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