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8, P. interrupta, Kon. Mss. 
Erect, smooth, from one to three feet high ; negotiate: 
of the linear panicle short, and collected into remote fascicles, 
Spikelets from six to twelve-flowered. Seed obcordate. 
Teling. Nakurnaral. 
_ Grows about at the borders of rice fields. - 
Culms generally erect, from one and a half to three feet” 
high, round, smooth. Leaves narrow, long, sharp, and smooth. 
Panicles erect, from six to twelve inches long, linear ; ramifi- 
cations sessile, nearly erect, remote, particularly those of the 
lower part, where they are often twice their length asunder; 
one, two, or more from the same point, which makes it ap- 
pear verticelled. Spikelets minute, pedicelled, from. six, to 
-twelve-flowered. Corol, valves smooth. Seed as in the'last 
two species, 
9. P. nutans. Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd, E 395. Retz. Obs. 
iv. 19. 
Erect, smooth, from three to five feet high, ein con- 
tracted ; ramifications adpressed, fascicled, and approximat- 
ed. Spikelets from eight to fourteen-flowered. Seed oblong. 
Teling. Urenka. 
Delights in a rich, moist soil, such as the banks of water- 
cone borders of rice fields, &c. 
Culms erect, from three to five feet high, pate eile 
round, smooth. Leaves narrow, long, sharp, and smooth, 
Panicle linear, from one to two feet long ; ramifications fili- 
form, peduncled, adpressed, one, two, or more from nearly the 
same place, but seldom so far asunder as their own length. — 
Spikelets pedicelled, from eight to fourteen-flowered. Calya 
and corol smooth, Seed oblong,smooth, brown, ss 
Obs. The best mark. to distinguish it from the Jast species 
is the form of theseed. which i in that is oboyate, in this oblong. 
. Cattle are not fond of any of these tall, erect, coarse species, 
