358 FRIANDRIA DIGYNEA, Hordeum. 
but bifariously excavated for the reception of the two-flow- 
ered spikelets. | 
A native of the ancuaahe of India; and im size and ap- 
pearance very like R, Thomea and edinets ; and were they 
not two-flowered in the same cal yx I should no doubt have | 
taken it for R. axeurvata, Linn, 
Culms scarcely more than may be ealled the seapes of the 
spikes, the whole plants being but two or three inches high. 
Leaves many, filiform; rachis rigid, and with the sheaths 
somewhat pilose. Spikes terminal, solitary, subulate, about 
two inches long. Rachis not jointed, but alternately exca- 
vated on the opposite sides for the reception of the flowers. 
Calyx two-valved, two-flowered ; valves very unequal, the 
exterior being many times leseeciban the imer one, which 
is a minute scale in the botiom of the excavations of the ra- 
chis, and not readily detected, .Florets two in each calyx, 
both hermaphrodite, one sessile and the other short pedicel-_ 
led, each with a corol of two equal membranaceous, smooth 
valves, : 
_ HORDEUM. Sckhreb. gen. N. 129. 
Calyz lateral, two-valved ; valves narrow, acuminate, dis- 
tant, altogether forming a six-leaved ceria one-flowered, 
a threes at each toothlet of the. machin... 
hahadaabon kine aks oe Willd. i473. 
‘All the flowers hermaphrodite and awned, placed re eg 
ly in six rows, 
Sans, Yuva, Situshooka, shee: 
Beng. Juba, : | seine 
Arab. She-eer. #.. 
This species.is much cobeeedad d in most of the tamperate 
= ff HieMoosten during ¢ the cool season... 5 
