Cenchrus. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 233 
TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
PEROTIS. Schreb. gen. N. 1714. 
Calyx none. Corol two-valved ; valves equal, and awned, 
1. P. latifolia, Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 324. 
Culms piped, from nine to eighteen inches high. Leaves 
short, waved, and ciliate, Raceme cylindrical. 
Tsjeria-kuren-pulla, Rheed. Mal. 12. 117, t. 62. 
Anthoxanthum indicum. Linn. sp. pi. ed, Willd, i. 157. 
Saccharum spicatum, Linn. sp. pl. 79. 
Is a native of high, dry, sandy, barren ground, over the __ 
coast of Coromandel. 
Root fibrous. Culms at the base resting on the ground, 
and there branchy, above erect, leafy; jointed, from nine to 
eighteen inches high, smooth. Leaves sheathing, short, broad 
at the base, margins waved and hispid; sheaths about half — 
the length of the joints. Racemes (not spikes) terminal, erect, 
cylindrical, lead-coloured, Flowers numerous, diverging. 
Calyx two-valved, both awned, and are totally destitute of 
hairs round their base, or any where else. Corol two-valved, 
very minute, “Seed... Spat 
Obs. Cattle are not fond of this grass. 
CENCHRUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1574. 
Involucre echinate, and four-flowered. Calyzx from two to 
three-valved, one or two-flowered. 
1. C. biflorus, R. © : rs, 
Spikes simple, cylindric. — Involueres two-flo were red od; seg- 
ments subulate, hooked and ini. 
> A nativ Z para’ a the Coro- 
Nh PGi atk to twenty-four inches high, smooth, ° 
' _ Leaves long, dieddes. somewhat scabrous; mouths of their 
