332 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Poa. 



Culms straight, simple, from twelve to twenty four inches 

 high, a little compressed, smooth. Leaves small, smooth. 

 Spikes straight, secuiul, from four to eight inches long. Spike- 

 lets alternate, sessile, lanceolate, in two spreading rows, though 

 issuing from one side of the common rachis. Calyx below, 

 from four to six-ilowered ; above many-flowered. 



2. P. chinensis. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. -395. 



Smooth, from two to four feet high. Panicle of many al- 

 ternate, simple, expanding, secund ramifications. Spikelets 

 alternate, short-pedicelled, from four to six-flowered. 



Beng. B?fra-pmi-nMti. 



A large, beautiful species, growing on the borders of water 

 courses, and places where there is much moisture. 



Culms rainous, creeping near the base, above expanding, 

 from two to four feet high, every part smooth, and a little 

 compressed. Leaves as in other grasses, smooth ; mouths of 

 the sheaths bearded. Panicle large, oval, composed of long, 

 alternate, filiform, simple, expanding, secund branches. Spike- 

 lets alternate, from four to .six-flowered, short-pedicelled, ex- 

 panding in two rows from one side of the simple branches. 



3. P. procera. R. 



Smooth, erect, from three to five feet high. Lif/ula large; 

 ramifications of the panicle simple ; spikelets pedicelled, ra- 

 ther remote, linear, many-flowered. 



Teling. Rewa. 



Delights in a moist rich soil. 



Culms nearly erect, branchy, from three to five feet high, 

 round, smooth, much covered by the sheaths of the leaves. 

 Leaves long, slender and smooth. Sheaths longer than the 

 joints, with their mouths crowned with a long ragged mem- 

 branaceous process. Panicle large, from nine to eighteen 

 inches long, oblong, bowing a little, composed of numerous, 

 long, filiform, expanding racemes, scattered round the com- 



