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POMMEREULLA. Schreb. gen. N. 97- 

 Calyx, glumes two-valved, from three to four-flowered ; 

 valvelets four-cleft, awned on the back. 



P. Corucopiae. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i, 314. Vahl. en. 

 pi. ii. 393. R. Corom. pi. ii. JV. 131. 



A very singular, small, rare grass ; growing under bushes 

 on dry uncultivated ground. 



Root, culms, and leaves, as described by Konig, but mine 

 has the spike compound and secund, the rest as he says, alba 

 base abvolluta folia sub-spatheformi. Spiculis distichus, 

 each having an involucre of two, lanceolate, acute, membra- 

 naceous valves. Within these two valves, is a short, clubbed, 

 downy pedicel supporting the partial spikelets of four flow- 

 ers, with their common calyx, it is joined to the involucre by 

 an articulation and drops off most readily, particularly when 

 dry, leaving the involucre attached to the rachis. Calyx, 

 corol, and stamens, are as Konig describes them ; but the 

 germ is ob cordate, and there are always two styles with fea- 

 thery recurved stigmas. Seed as he describes it. 



POA. Schreb. gen. N. 114. 

 Calyx two-valved, containing many flowers of two unequal 

 valvelets disposed alternately on distichous spikelets. 



1. P. bifaria. Vahl. symbol, ii. 19. Linn, sp.pl. ed. Willd. 

 i. 401. 



Smooth. Culms straight, from one to two feet high. Spikes 

 terminal, straight, secund. Spikelets sessile, alternate, bifari- 

 ous, the inferior from four to six-flowered, above many-flower- 

 ed. 



Teliny. Wooda-tallum. 



I believe Konig called it Poa malabarica. 



Grows on mountains and other dry situations. 



