332 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Poa. 
Culms straight, simple, from twelve to twenty-four inches 
high, a little compressed, smooth. Leaves small, smooth. 
Spikes straight, secund, from four to eight inches long. Spike- 
lets alternate, sessile, lanceolate, in two spreading rows, though 
issuing from one side of the common rachis. Calyx below, 
from four to six-flowered ; above many-flowered. 
2. P. chinensis, Linn. sp. pl.ed. Willd. i. 395. 
Smooth, from two to four feet high, Panicle of many, al- 
ternate, simple, expanding, secund ramifications, Spikelets 
alternate, short-pedicelled, from four to six-flowered. —__ 
Beng. Bitra-pini-nuti. 
A large, beautiful species, growing on the borders of water 
courses, and places where there is much moisture. 
Culms ramous, creeping near the base, above expanding, 
from two to four feet high, every part smooth, and a little 
compressed. Leaves as in other grasses, smooth ; mouths of 
the sheaths bearded. Panicle large, oval, composed of long, 
alternate, filiform, simple, expanding, secund branches, Spike- 
lets alternate, from four to six-flowered, short-pedicelled, ex- 
panding in two rows from one side of the simple branches. — 
3. P. procera. R. 
Smooth, erect, from eres: to five feet high. Ligula large; 
ramifications of the panicle simple ; spikelets eeieailent ra- 
ther remote, linear, many Powered: «crite Haceciti ag 
Teling. Rewa. ce 
Delights in a moist rich soil. em 
Culms nearly erect, branchy, from three to ae feet rig D 
round, smooth, much covered by the sheaths of the leaves. 
Leaves long, slender and smooth. Sheaths longer than the e 
joints, with their mouths crowned with a long ragged mem- 
branaceous process. Panicle large, from nine to eighteen. : 
aaehes long, ome bowing a little, composed of numerous, = 
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