294 tri anuria digynia. Panicnm. 



Beng. Peti-nar. 



Teling. Doosa. 



Delights in a inoisi rich soil, such as (ho hanks of water- 

 courses, borders of rice .fields, Sec. 



Culms at the base creeping*, above nearly erect, round, 

 smooth, from one to four feet long, including the part that 

 rests on the ground. Leaves smooth, except about the mouths 

 of the sheaths where they are bearded, ami sub-ciliate. Spike 

 compound, secund, exceedingly like that of P. bHzoides, only 

 here it is generally longer, with often as many as twenty-five 

 or thirty spikelets; their distance from one another is not so 

 regular and is generally less than their own length. Flowers 

 disposed in two rows on the outside of the spikelets, which 

 are oblong. Calyx one- flowered, the two exterior valves very 

 small. Seed oblong, pointed, rugose. 



21. P. lanceolatum. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 337. 



Culms creeping, leaves lanceolate, mouths of their sheaths 

 elevated and bearded. Flowers hermaphrodite ; valvelets of 

 the calyces equal, the exterior one awned. Seed smooth, ob- 

 long-. 



P. aristatum, of the same author, seems the same grass. 



Compare with P. composiium. Linn, sp.pl. ed. Willd. i. 

 340. In the Banksian Herbarhnn the same species is labelled 

 P. unguin08um. Grows under the shade of trees. 



Culms creeping, ramous, with their extremities, from one 

 to two feet high, sub-erect. Leaves lanceolate, waved, often 

 tinged with purple; sheaths shorter than the joints, hairy ; 

 months elevated, stipula-like, and hairy. Spikes composed, 

 secund ; from six to twelve inches long. Spikelets alternate, 

 somewhat remote, secund, direction between expanding and 

 adpressed. liachis, common and partial three-sided. Flowers 

 generally paired, one sessile, the other short-pedicellcd ; inser- 

 tions often surrounded with hairs, when single there is an 

 awn, or the rudiments of a second floret accompanying it. 



Calyx, the exterior glume as large as the next within it f 



