dschaemum, TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 323 
6.-1. tenellum. R. 
Creeping near the base, Leaves linear. Spikes aire Ex- 
terior valve of the sessile flower truncate, the rest cuspidate, 
hermaphrodite flower alone awned. 
A weak straggling species. 
Culms weak, creeping and ramous towards the base ; to- 
wards the heads erect ; the thicknessof a pigeon’s quill ; joints 
bearded, Leaves a little hairy near the base, mouths of the 
sheaths ligulate, and hairy. Spikes paired, &c. as in the last 
species. Flowers paired, &c. Calyx of the sessile flowers 
two-valved, two-flowered ; exterior valve retuse and border- 
ed ; inner. valve ending in an awled point. Flowers two, one — 
hermaphrodite with a two-valved corol, the exteriorof which 
ends in an arista, the other is male with an awnless two-valy- 
ed corol. Calyx, of the pedicelled flower both valves alike, 
and ending in an awled point; it contains a single flower, 
which is sometimes hermaphrodite, and sometimes male, with 
the rudiment only of the second flower, 
7. i, repens: R. 
Creeping. Leaves short and acute, Spikes paired. Flow- 
ers all polygamous and awnless ; glumes of the calyces smooth 
and cuspidate, Rachis smooth. : 
A native of Pulo Pinang. 
Culms creeping, flexuose, smooth, from one to two feet long. 
Leaves bifarious, sword-shaped, short, rigid. Sheaths as 
long as the joints, a little hairy, with a aigalary process at 
the mouth, Spikes terminal, paired, uniting a little ae 
what seems to be their base. Rachis jointed, three-sided, _ 
smooth, Flowers about six pair, one of each pair sessile, th 
other peduncled, both the pedicelled and sessile one consist- 
ing of a two-flowered, two-valved, rigid, acute,smooth calyx, 
Flowers polygamous, one hermaphrodite, the other male, 
both awnless, each floret having a corol of two acute valves, 
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