570 . MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. Cotx. 
there a partial spathe, their insertions are internfixed with lan- 
ceolate, chaffy scales. MALE FLOWERS in pairs, one a Jittle 
above the other in a secund spike above the female. Calyx 
two-flowered ; valvelets obliquely oblong, hairy on the out- 
side. Corol as in the genus, FEMALE FLOWERS solitary, 
below the male. Calyx, or involucre, consisting of one oval, a 
very hard, glossy valve, which embraces most completely the 
corol, its margins are double, not united, and through this 
duplicature the pedicel of the male spike passes, Corod four- 
valved, the interior two large and somewhat fleshy. 
The rest as described in the Genera Plantarum. The grass 
is of a coarse nature. Cattle do not eat it. 
3. C. gigantea. Kin. Mss. 
Pedicels naked ; male spikes drooping with flowers, three- 
fold, the middle one pedicelled ; female corol six-valved, 
—— ovate, — 
Beng. Danga gurgur. 
Perennial. It grows chiefly in the valleys amongst the Cir- 
car mountains and in Bengal. 7 
Culm erect, ramous to the top, round, smooth, jointed, from 
eight to fifteen feet high, and’as thick as a man’s thumb at ~ 
the base. Leaves from two to four feet long, and about one 
inch broad ; the upper side and margins backwardly hispid. | 
Sheaths short, and smooth, Spikes as in the last species. 
ame common, of the peduncles, as in the last ; proper, of 
the’ pedicels wanting. Pedicels long, filiform, naked: not 
jointe ed as in the last species. Mate riowers above the fe- 
male, as in the last, but here they are more numerous, and 
three-fold ; the two lateral ones sessile,and the middle one pe- 
dicelled, they are closely imbricated round the whole of the 
spike. Calyx and corol as in the genus. FEMALE FLOWERS — 
single asin the last species. Involucre ovate, entire round the 
circumference, pi perfora | at the apex for the pedicel of the 
male spike to pass through; like the chore tin oodh; glows 2 
and becomes ——— hard wi in  theinvoluere ; on each 
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