Aristida, TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, 349 
very numerous, approximate, bifarious, drooping, sword- 
shaped, from one to two inches broad at the base, from thence 
taper to a fine point; smooth on both sides, and in the mar- 
gins. Sheaths also smooth, with a long membranaceous 
margin round the mouth, Panicle oval, lax, from one to two 
feet long, erect; ramifications alternate, ramous, drooping a 
little. Fiower’ pedicelled, scattered. Calyx two or three- 
flowered ; valves nearly equal, and of the length of the flow- 
ers, Coroi exterior valve three-nerved, and woolly on the 
back, with a very fine, long, taper point. Jnner valve small 
and smooth. Nectary two, cuneiform scales embrace the 
on the two sides. 
_ Obs. The wool which girds the base of the corol, in most of 
the species, is in this species found growing on the back of i its 
exterior valve. 
ARISTIDA. Schreb. gen. N. 125. 
Calyx two-valved, one-flowered. Goce ompxnined, wits 
thrpe awns at the top. | 
ae © A. setacea, Retz. Obs. iv, 22, Linn, sp. pl, ed. Willd. i, 
460 5 
Erect, smooth) from two to four feet high. Panicle linens 
oblong, composed of fifteen to twenty subyaltemnate, erectish 
ramifications. : 
Teling. Shipur-gadi, 
Grows in a dry, barren, binding soil. 
_ Root perennial. Culms straight, generally simple, from 
two to four feet high, and about as thick as a crow’s quill at 
the base, solid, and of a very firm ligneous tex re, round 
and smooth, Leaves few, narrow, margins inyolute, nerve- 
less, smooth. Panicle bowing with the wind, linear, from 
six to twelve inches long, composed of sub-sessile, remote, 
adpressed ramifications, Calysx, corol, &c, as in the family, 
except that the three awns are erect. ah 
