a TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Rottbeellia, 
sides there are chaffy, filiform bractes at their insertions. 
Flowers alternate in two rows ; one row on each side of ‘the — 
spike. Calyx two-flowered, two-valved. Corol, one herma- 
phrodite within, and one male without, each has two valves, 
_sometimes there is only one hermaphrodite floret, in which 
case it has three valves. | 
5, R. perforata, Bocce ‘pl. ii. N. 182. 
~ Culms erect, smooth, from three to five feet high. Spikes 
solitary, below the flowers are opposite, and the rachis) per- 
forated, Calyx generally two-flowered ; oue flower siti 
the other hermaphrodite. 3 
Beng. Kurki. ‘a2 ac toa bi kay 
 Teling. Panookoo. # 
This species is rather scarce, it grows. on, low ek none 
ground, 
Culms many, erect, camble: Fouad , smooth, jointed, but not, 
piped; from three to five feet high, and about as thick as a 
crow’s quill. Leaves small for the size of the grass, slender 
and smooth ; margins hispid ; mouths of the sheaths and a:lit- 
tle way up the base of the leaves woolly. Spikes terminal, 
and, from the exteriorarils,solitary, peduncled, round, see 
as thick as a crow’s. quill, and from three to six inches long 5, 
where the flowers are opposite, there is an 2 obhang Sates | 
of the rachis, so that the backs of the inner : glumes of ‘the 
_ ealyx touch one another. Renee onan ate 
‘on the lower IalPor ators i jhe sokossbarsais nate;some- 
mixed,  Calye one or -two-flowered, tw. regaled, ean = 
simple ; the exterior one rigid, the interior one firm. and) 
white, both obliquely linear-oblong. Corol, when, si agile 
hermaphrodite, and. three-valyed ; hin double the exterior, , 
one, is male, i in which case the two » have four valrese Vite oe 
