Arundo, TRIANDRIA DIGYNTA. 347 
though I have often looked for it ; it may therefore be: a ape 
cies of Dactylis, 
: _ ARUNDO. Schreb. gen. N. 124. 
Calyx two-valved, containing one or more two-valved hom 
bil surrounded with long hairs. . sity 
1. A. bifaria, Retz. Obs. iv.21. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 
Erect, smooth, leafy, from twelve to eighteen feet high. Pa- 
nicle erect, linear, oblong, dense. Calyces three-flowered, 
_ much longer than the florets ; 3 glumes of the corol — 
- Teling. Patoo-ederoo. 
Is found chiefly among bushes on the banks of rivals 
lakes; &c. on the Circar mountains, 
Culms sword-shaped, smooth, about ten to fifteen. ishion 
long, and from one to two broad, Panicle erect, oblong, very 
much. crowded with innumerable ramifications, which stand 
erect and press close on one another while in seed. Flowers 
erect, on a common woolly pedicel within the calyx. Calyx 
three-flowered ; glumes equal, pointed, larger than those of 
the flowers. Corol, exterior valve twice the size of the inner 
one, it is pointed and woolly on the outside. 
Obs. The leaves seem to be one of those sorts with which 
the Chinese line the inside of their sugar-candy tubs and other ° 
Sess 
2. A Kesh dink: sp. ‘pl. ed, Willd. i, 456. Retz. Obs. iv. 
ys a > 
. Erect, iapoilisdends icin bight toctyrslve Seah las : 
3 silt tone, verticelled. Calyces, from three to four-flowered 
exterior glume of the corols three-nerved, and daggered. 
_ Sans. Nuda, Nula;, siscibiae — 
Beng. Nal, Nur. 2 
» Teling. Naga-sara maitantos, 
