- Poa. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 333 
mon rachis; which is filiform, waved, three-sided, and hispid. 
* Spikelets alternate, pedicelled, linear, remote, many-flowered. 
4. P. cynosuroides. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 393. 
Smooth, straight, from one to three feet high. Leaves long 
-and acute, Panicle straight, sub-cylindrical ; ramifications 
horizontal ; spikelets depending, from six to twelve-flowered, 
Uniola biphninan, Linn, sp. pl. 104. 
Sans. Koosha, Kootha, Durbha, Puvitrung. . 
-Cusa or Cusha, Asiat. Res, iii. 255. and 490. and iv, 249. 
Beng. Koosha. 
Teling. Durbha, Dubha, or Durpa. 
A strong coarse species, a native of dry barren ground. 
Root creeping, perennial. Culms straight, rigid, round, 
smooth, from one to three feet high. Leaves numerous, very 
long, chiefly about the base of the culms, rigid margins his- 
pid. Panicle erect, linear-oblong, often tending to a conical 
form, composed of many somewhat three-fold, verticelled, ho- 
rizontal, short, rigid, secund ramifications, Spikelets many- 
flowered, depending, in two rows, from the under side of the 
ramifications. Corol, valves pointed, the inner one rather the 
largest, 
Obs. It is employed by the brahmuns in their religious 
ceremonies, Cattle do not eat it. Can this be Gramen ca- 
pillaceum ? &e. Pluck, Alm, p. 176. t. 34. Fig. 2. Cusa, or 
Cusha, the Sanserit name of this much venerated grass, was 
given to it at a very early period, by the Hindoo Philoso- 
phers, and believed, by Sir William Jones, to have been con- 
secrated to the memory of Cush, one of the sons of Ram. See 
Asiatic Researches, vol. iti. p. 490. If, $0, we — here'a 
"5, P. ciliaris, Linn, sp: pl. ed. Willd. i. 402. 
- Smooth, sub-erect, from one to two feet high. Panicle 
