336 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Poa. 
10. P. diandra. R.- : 
_ Erect, smooth. Leaves long, fine-pointed ; ana linear, 
half the length of the whole plant ; ramifications scattered, 
compound, expanding, smooth. Spikelets from four to eight- 
flowered. Flowers diandrous. 
A native of Bengal, where it blossoms during the cold sea- 
son. 
Culms erect, growing in tufts, with few branches, smooth ; 
height of the whole plant in a good soil, from three to six feet. 
Leaves from one to two feet long, smooth in every part, taper- 
ing to a long fine pot. Panicle linear, half the length of 
the whole plant; ramifications thereof scattered, expanding, 
smooth, compound, from two to three inches long. Spikelets 
lanceolate, small, smooth, from four to eight-flowered. Corol 
with both valves smooth, and rather obtuse. Stamens two. 
Anthers purple. 
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11. P. viscosa. Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 398. Retz. Obs. iv. 
p- 20. 
Culm ascending, from nine to eighteen inches high, clam- 
my. Paniclelinear-oblong; ramifications verticelled, short, 
spreading ; spikelets from three to twelve-flowered ; imner 
glumes of the corol ciliate. © — ; 
This species grows in tufts on dry simile seed, 
Culms numerous, spreading, with their extremities ascend- 
ing, ramous, from nine to eighteen inches long. Leaves — 
‘small,marginsinvolute ; sheaths shorter than the joints, with 
their mouth surrounded with long, slender, white hair, Pa- 
nicles linear-oblong, from two to four inches long, composed : e 
of short, sub-verticelled, sessile, expanding ramifications. 
, Calyx from three to four-flowered. Corol, inner valve eili- _ 
ate, . e 
Obs. Every part of the — is conaea with tenaiout zg 
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