350° TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Aristida. 
Obs. Cattle do not eat it, yet it is very useful. The Telinga 
- paper-makers construct their frames of the culms ; it also 
serves to make brooms and tooth-picks. It is employed in 
. preference to other grasses for making the screens called Tat- 
ties, for this purpose it is spread thin on bamboo frames, and 
tied down; these placed on the weather side of the house, 
during the hot land winds and kept constantly watered dur- 
ing the heat,of the day, renders the temperature of the air in 
the house exceeding pleasant, compared to what it is without. 
The thermometer in the outside exposed to the wind, but 
not to the sun, will then be at one hundred, or one hundred 
and fifteen degrees, or even more; and within if the Taéties 
are properly disposed and well watered, they will keep it 
down to from eighty-five to ninety, with two or even three 
rows of Tatties, made very thin, and all kept well watered, 
the thermometer, when it blows hard, may be brought down 
to eighty, but then it is absolutely chilling, and disagreeably 
cold. The difference between the open air and this refreshed 
air, is to the feeling inconceivably great. The thermometer 
in the sun, at this season rises to from one hundred and ‘thir- 
ty to one hundred and forty, This contrivance we received 
from Bengal, and by it the hot season which used to be so. 
much dreaded, is now rendered to those who can keep with-. 
in doors tolerable, I have never observed any had effects 
from this cool moist air; however the — is a i 
. healthy of the whole year, 
, ‘Hostris. Linn, sp, pl. ed. Willd: 459. y 
Culms diffuse, about two feet long. Panicle oval, late 
. thin ; ramifications spreading, two-forked, 5 = 
Teling. Shil puroo-kalli, : 
ais species is a native ofthe same sil with dhe last de : 
