350 TRIANDRI* DIGYNIA. Alistida. 



Obs. Cattle do not cat it, yet it is very useful. The Telinga 

 paper-makers construct their frames of the culms ; it also 

 serves to make brooms and tooth-picks. It is employed in 

 preference to other grasses for making the screens called Tat- 

 ties, for this purpose it is spread thin on bamboo frames, and 

 tied down; these placed on the weather side of the house, 

 during the hot land winds and kept constantly watered dur- 

 ing- the heat of the day, renders the temperature of the air in 

 the house exceeding' pleasant, compared to what it is without. 

 The thermometer in the outside exposed to the wind, hut 

 not to the sun, will then he at one hundred, or one hundred 

 and fifteen degrees, or even more; and within if the Tatties 

 are properly disposed and well watered, they w ill keep it 

 down to from eighty -five to ninety, with two or even three 

 rows of Tatties, made very thin, and all kept well watered, 

 the thermometer, when it blows hard, may he brought down 

 to eighty, but then it is absolutely chilling, and disagreeably 

 cold. The difference between the open air and this refreshed 

 air, is to the feeling inconceivably great. The thermometer 

 in the sun, at this season rises to from one hundred and thir- 

 ty to one hundred and forty. This contrivance we received 

 from Bengal, and by it the hot season which used to be so 

 much dreaded, is now rendered to those who can keep with- 

 in doors tolerable. I have never observed any had effects 

 from this cool moist air ; how ever the hot season is the most 

 healthy of the whole year. 



2. A. Hystrix. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 459. 



Culms diffuse, about two feet long. Panicle oval, large, 

 thin ; ramifications spreading, two-forked. 



Telinrj. Shil pwroo-kalb. 



This species is a native of the same soil with the last de- 

 scribed. 



Culms depressed, straggling, crooked, rigid, somewhat 

 branchy, about two feet long. Leaves as in the last species. 

 Panicle large, oval, thin; direction various, composed ofdi- 



