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two to six on a common peduncle, and embraced b: com- 
Goin: MONOECIA TRIANDRIA, See 
and there cordate. Spikes axillary and terminal, several 
together, from two to three inches long, sub-erect, pedun- 
eed: MALE FLowEeRS on the short, nodding, solitary, mealy 
spikes, from the apices of the female flowers they are in pairs; 
one sessile, the other peduncled. Calyx; glume two-flower- 
ed, two-valved; the exterior valvelet oval, with broad mar- 
gins. Corol two-valved. Nectary two scales embracing the 
base of the filaments. FEMALE FLoWERs solitary. Calyx 
or involucre one-valved, entire, with a perforation at top for 
the pedicel of the male spike and stigmas to pass through. 
Corol; ;glume four-valved ; valvelets fleshy, on one side of the 
corol are lodged two somewliat clavate bodies each support- 
ing the rudiments of the corollet. Germ ovate, Pericarp no 
other than the calyx or involucre, sow white and of a bony 
hardness. 
2, C. barbata, Roxb. 
Pedicels short, jointed, with a boat-shaped, cuspidate 
spathe at the joint. Male spikes erect; flowers paired ; ca- 
lyx hairy. Female corol tour-valved. Seeds oval. 
Beng. Gurgur. 
Teling. Ghella-Gadec.  - 
Is found in rice fields, and on the banks of water courses, 
in a moist, rich soil in the Northern Circars. 
Roots annual. Culms erect and near the top, bowing a lit- 
tle, ramous, jointed, smooth, sulcated, not piped, but replete 
with a soft spongy substance, from three to six feet high, — 
and as thick as a common quill ; joints sometimes bearded. 
Leaves sheathing, from two to three feet long, narrow keel- 
ed; margins armed with small. prickles, on the upper side 
sometimes a few, sometimes numerous, stiff, white hairs, 
mouths of the sheaths slightly bearded. Spikes numerous, 
pedicelled, terminal, and from the exterior axills, forming al- 
together a large linear panicle, collected in fascicles of from 
mon spathe. Pedicels compresetie jointed 
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