334 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Poa, - 
contracted, linear, with the lower ramifications remote. Spike- 
- lets from six to twelve-flowered ; inner valvelets of the corol 
ciliate. 
Delights in the same soil and situation with the last de- 
scribed species. 
Culms near the base procumbent, above erect for one or 
two feet. Leaves as in the last. Panicle linear, from three 
to six inches long, the ramifications short, those of the lower 
part stand at some small distance, their insertions are not 
hairy. Calyx from six to twelve-flowered, not ciliate. Corol, 
only'the inner valve ciliate. Seed as in the last. 
6. P. cylindrica. R. 
Erect, slender, from twelve to eighteen inches high. 
. Leaves slender. Panicle cylindric, crowded with short, tl 
pressed, ramous, alternate branches. Spikelets from six to 
twelve-flowered, Flowers diandrous, inner valve of the corol : 
ciliate, 
From Canton in China the seed was received into the Bo- 
tanie garden, where the plants grow freely and —— a. 
‘ing the rains and the cool season. 
ts P. ciliata, R. 
Smooth, sub-erect, from one to two feet high. Panicle co- 
lumnar ; spikelets from six to twelve-flowered ; margins of 
all the aly eles of the se and corols late. Bel TE a 
bular.* ae : 
As inca fend on a poor “iy boils * 
Root perennial, Culms erect, rigid, smooth; from one to 
three feet high. Leaves smooth ; mouth of the sheaths’ dow- 
ny. Panicle columnar, from two to four inches long, branches 
thereof crowded, insertions hairy ; spikelets from six to twelve- 
flowered. Calyx, margins ciliate. Corol, the margins of both 
valves much ciliate, the exterior one has three nerves and i oe 
pointed, the inner one two-nerved. - —— mooth, — 
brown, dropping from the corol when ‘ripe. - Bone: 
