278 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA,” Paspalum. 
Obs. General Martin, who past me this grass from —— 
writes to the following effect :— 
“ | took particular notice of a sort of long grass which the 
cattle were voraciously fond of, which is of so strong an aro- 
matic and pungent taste, that the flesh-of the animals, as also 
the milk and butter, have a very strong scent of it. Of this 
grass I send you a small stalk, some roots, and seed ; if you 
taste the latter, though old, you will find it ofa very pungent 
aromatic taste.” 
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PASPALUM. Schreb. gen. N. 31. _ it * 
Calyx one-flowered, two-valved, valvelets rounded, equal. 
Corol of two valves, and like the calyx. Seed — to the 
coro], 
1. P. serobiculatum. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd, i. 330. 
Spikes axillary and terminal, sessile, alternate, erect, Flow- 
ers alternate, in two rows, or crowded, smooth, Calyces 
from three to five-nerved, Culms erect, two feet high; a 
mend round, smooth, 
Sans. Korudoosha, Saxe. + Ky & 
ohBhigl Koda, wile: ij a1 eat 
Hind: Kodacka-chouli2o& essl foe eho. thie aa” 
Telling. Aruga, en Ba Ss 36h Gee geet geod 4 ty ee ; 
Thisi is cultivated by the natives over sasily parts of India. ou 
Tt delig ‘in a light, dry, loose soil, but'will grow'in & Aa se 
battens whee - Time of cultivation the rainy season, © °° 
Root fibrous. Culms erect, ramous, jointed, smoollle ko 
about two feet high, involved in the sheaths of the leaves. ae 
Leaves sheathing, bifarious, longer than the culm, every part | se 
smooth, Sheaths longer than the joints, often embracing the — 
spikes like a spathe. Spikes axillary and terminal, from 
two to! four, alternate, sessile, erect, secund. Rachis broad, — i 
eous, with a waved keel on the inside. lowe 
te, , in 1 two Towa; in Toxuriant plate the owe 
