262 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. AlldrSpogon. 



short-pedicelled ; superior pairs, the sessile one of each of 

 these is a slender female, amply bearded at the base with 

 much dark brown hair, which is the more conspicuous as 

 every other part of the spike is smooth ; the other short-pedi- 

 celled, male, and awnless,like the inferior pairs. 



Male Flowers. Calyx two- valved. Corol two-valved. 

 Stamina three. 



Female Flowers. Calyx of one linear, striated, hard, 

 dark brown valve. Corol one- valved, with a very long, twist- 

 ed awn on the other side. Stamina none. Styles two. 



SECT. III. Panicles naked, and terminal. 



17. A. aciculatus. Linn, sp.pl. ed. Willd. iv. 906. 



Creeping. Leaves shorter than their sheaths. Panicle linear - 

 oblong", erect ; ramifications three-flowered, one hermaphro- 

 dite, sessile, and two male, peduncled. 



Gramen aciculatum. Rumph. Amb. 6. t. S.y*. 1. good. 



Raphis trivalvis. Lour. Cochin Clt. 676. 



Kudira-pullu. Rheed. Mai. 12. p. 97. t. 43. 



Sans. Sh?/nkhmee, Chor«-pooshpee, Kesbinee. 



Bene/. Chora-kanta. 



Grows on barren, moist, pasture ground ; its seeds are ex- 

 ceedingly troublesome to those who walk where it grows, 

 as they stick in the stockings, and produce a disagreeable 

 itching. 



Culms straight, simple, from one to two feet high, round 

 and smooth. Leaves small, waved, with the margins prickle- 

 ciliate. Panicle terminal, erect, linear-oblong, from two to 

 three inches long. Ramifications (or rather peduncles) ver- 

 ticelled, simple, three-flowered, nearly erect; apex armed 

 with short stiff hairs. Flowers, one sessile, hermaphrodite, 

 and two pedicelled male ones on each peduncle. 



Hermaphrodite Flower. Calyx two-valved, nearly 

 equal ; the inner one ends in a short arista, and has the keel 

 scabrous ; base involved in brown short hair. Corol two^ 



