Jlnindo. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 347 



though I have often looked for it ; it may therefore be a spe- 

 cies of Dactylis. 



JRUNDO. Schreb. gen. N. 124. 

 Calyx two-valved, containing one or more two-valved flow- 

 ers, surrounded with long hairs. 



1. A. bifarhi. Retz. Obs. iv.21. Linn, sp.pl.ed. Willd. i. 

 455. 



Erect, smooth, leafy, from twelve to eighteen feet high. Pa- 

 nicle erect, linear, oblong, dense. Calyces three-flowered, 

 much longer than the florets ; ylumes of the corol woolly. 



Teliny. Patoo-ederoo. 



Is found chiefly among bushes on the banks of rivulets, 

 lakes, &c. on the Circar mountains. 



Culms sword-shnped, smooth, about ten to fifteen inches 

 long, and from one to two broad. Panicle erect, oblong, very 

 much crowded with innumerable ramifications, which stand 

 erect and press close on one another while in seed. Flowers 

 erect, on a common woolly pedicel within the calyx. Calyx 

 three-flowered ; ylumes equal, pointed, larger than those of 

 the flowers. Carol, exterior valve twice the size of the inner 

 one, it is pointed and woolly on the outside. 



Obs. The leaves seem to be one of those sorts with which 

 the Chinese line the inside of their sugar-candy tubs and other 

 packages. 



2. A. Karka. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 456. Retz. Obs. iv. 



21. 



Erect, smooth, leafy, from eight to twelve feet high. Pa- 

 nicle loose, vrrticelled. Calyces, from three to four-flowered 

 exterior glume of the oorols three-nerved, and daggered. 



Sans. Nvdo, N?/la, Dhumuna, PotMgwla. 



Beny. Nal, Nur. 



Teliny. Naga-sara maitantos. 



