316 TRIANDRIA DIGYN1A. JigrOStlS. 



1. A. coromandeliana. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Wil/d. i. 374. Retz. 



Obs. iv. N. 52. 



Culms from four to eight inches high. Panicle verticel- 

 led ; ramification simple, secund ; inner valve of the calyx as 

 long- as the corol ; exterior valve minute. Seed naked, obo- 

 vate, rugose. 



Telin u. Yel 1 ika-tMiig oo-ga dt. 



A native of pasture ground. 



Culms spreading near the base, then ascending-, from four 

 to eight inches long-, mostly involved in the sheaths of the 

 leaves. Leaves rather broad, waved and slightly ciliated ; 

 mouths of the sheath bearded. Panicle oblong 1 : large for 

 the size of the grass, composed of expanding, simple, verti- 

 celled, secund racemes. Flowers awnless, generally in pairs, 

 unequally pedicelled. Calyx, exterior valve small, like that 

 of the accessory valve in Panicum. Inner as large as the 

 corol, and gaping with it when the seed ripens. Seed, it 

 drops uncovered by the corol, leaving it and the calyx in 

 their places; it is of an oblique oval form, brown, and trans- 

 versely rugose. 



2. A. tenacissima. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 374. 

 Smooth, creeping. Leaves minute. Panicle filiform ; ex- 

 terior valvelet of the calyx shorter than the corol. 



Telinxj. Toema-genka. 



A small, rigid species ; growing on old, poor, stiff, pasture 

 ground, where it forms extensive plants of tenacious turf. 



Culms rarnous, creeping to a great extent, with from four 

 to eight inches high of their flower-bearing extremities, erect, 

 smooth, filiform, and very firm. Leaves very small, and 

 smooth. Panicle erect, linear ; ramifications and floicers 

 adpressed, from one to two inches long. Calyx, exterior 

 valve smaller than the interior. Corol as large and long as 

 the inner valvelet of the calyx. 



