Apluda. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, - 
Culms creeping, or climbing, as thick as a crow’s quill, 
jointed, coloured, the lower part naked, inwardly spongy ; 
from the joints spring erect, ramous, flower-bearing branches 
of from one to seven feet high. Leaves very elegant, some- 
what bifarious, sheathing, petioled, linear-lanceolate, back- 
wardly hispid; from six to eighteen inches long; sheaths 
smooth, mouths short-stipuled. Panicles terminal, and from 
the exterior axills, or, the whole may be considered, as one 
linear leafy panicle. Bractes three-flowered, boat-shaped, 
with an awned point. Flowers, one of the three sessile, or ra~ 
ther sitting on a globular receptacle, consisting of a common, 
two-flowered calyx, one of which is sessile, awned, and her- 
maphrodite ; the other sessile, male and awnless ; just without 
the calyx on each side, there is a bent, compressed pedicel, 
one of these supports a common calyx, with two male, two- 
valved, awnless flowers, the other only the rudiments of one e OF 
more florets. s) 
2. A. geniculata, R. 
Perennial, creeping, or scandent, intricately geniculate. 
Leaves lanceolar. In each calyx one hermaphrodite, and one 
male flower, all awnless. _ 
Found on the banks of the Ganges in flower during the 
latter part of the rains and the cool season. 
Culms creeping, or climbing amongst bushes, reeds, &c, 
to an extent of many feet, ABs 5 and slender, bent at angles 
about aspan distance at the swelled joints, emitting numerous 
wiry roots, filled with spongy pith, the thickest about the 
size ofa crow’s quill. Leaves linear lanceolate, and smooth, 
but much smaller than in A. aristata. Sheaths shorter than is 
the joints. Ligula lacerate. Panicles terminal, compose 
numerous slender branchlets of distinct fascicles of flowers, 
each fascicle containing many short- pedicelled, ‘three-flower- 
ed, boat-shaped, cuspidate, smooth, bractes or involucres, 
Flowers one of the three sessile, containing one hermaphro- 
dite, and one male floret; the other two elevated or broad 
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