348 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, , Arundo, 
Is a native of similar places with the last described. 
Culms erect, ramous, from eight to twelve feet high, and 
as thick as the last, round, smooth, entirely covered: with 
the sheaths of the leaves. Leaves approximate, sword-shap- 
ed, smooth, from twelve to twenty-four inches long, and one 
or one and a half broad ; mouths of the sheaths bearded, Pa- 
nicle bowing with the wind, but if not disturbed erect, oblong, 
composed of many filiform, erect, (in luxuriant plants droop- 
ing) sub-verticelled, ramous branches. Rachis of the 
branches angular and hispid. lorets alternate, on a longer 
common woolly pedicel than in A. bifaria, within the calyx. 
Calyx from three to five-flowered ; glumes unequal, the larg-. 
est shorter than the exterior valve of the corol. Corol, ex- 
- terior valve three-nerved, tapering into long fine subulate 
points, inner valve scarcely half so long, Stamens often only 
two, and the pistil is frequently wanting. 
Obs. It does not agree with Retzius’s description of A. 
Karka im the number of flowers in the. calyx. Pipes are 
made of the culms, particularly those used by the people who 
carry about the dancing snakes, 
In Bengal it is more luxuriant than on the coast, _ The 
common Durma mats of that place are made of the stalks 
split open. Vessels from the be of Calcutta are snore 
ee PH-Ay Hea 
satho As henge, Linn drew -y Wit 455. ‘Retz. 
Obs. v. 20. 
Culms, fica: dix to-ee-feekdig, fletsileuis'é yates hidart- 
ous, sword-shaped, drooping. Panicle lax ; valvelets of the 
ealyx equal, from two to three-flowered ; exterior valve. of 
the corol woolly, daggered, and dobeaiertedi yaeed. Fs 
Beng, Gaba-nul. é 
_ This elegant species is found growing in ditches sal low 
places in the vicinity of Caleutta, where it bloshents, ons 
the months of October and November. | | 
Culms erect, Gan i tatglbmahahichetelanlhs ie 
