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8. P. inlerrupla. K'on. Mss. 



Erect, smooth, from one to three feet high ; ramifications 

 of the linear panicle short, and collected into remote fascicles. 

 Spikelets from six to twelve-flowered. Seed ob cordate. 



Teling. Nakurnaral. 



Grows about at the borders of rice fields. 



Culms generally erect, from one and a half to three feet 

 high, round, smooth. Leaves narrow, long*, sharp, and smooth. 

 Panicles erect, from six to twelve inches loug, linear; ramifi- 

 cations sessile, nearly erect, remote, particularly those of the 

 lower part, where they are often twice their length asunder; 

 one, two, or more from the same point, which makes it ap- 

 pear verticelled. Spikelets minute, pedicelled, from six to 

 twelve-flowered. Corol, valves smooth. Seed as in the last 

 two species. 



9. P. nutans. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 395. Retz. Obs. 

 iv. 19. 



Erect, smooth, from three to five feet high, panicles con- 

 tracted ; ramifications ad pressed, fascicled, and approximat- 

 ed. Spikelets from eight to four teen-flowered. Seed oblong. 



Teliny. Urenku. 



Delights in a rich, moist soil, such as the banks of water- 

 courses, borders of rice fields, &c. 



Culms erect, from three to five feet high, generally simple, 

 round, smooth. Leaves narrow, long-, sharp, and smooth. 

 Panicle linear, from one to two feet long ; ramifications fili- 

 form, peduncled, adpressed, one, two, or more from nearly the 

 same place, but seldom so far asunder as their own length. 

 Spikelets pedicelled, from eight to fourteen -flowered. Calyx 

 and corol smooth. Seed oblong, smooth, brown. 



Obs. The best mark to distinguish it from the last species 

 is the form of the seed which in that is obovate, in this oblong. 

 Cattle are not fond of any of these tall, erect, coarse species. 



