Pod, TRTANDR1A DTGYNTA. 339 



]s found on dry elevated pla< s. 



Culm? nearly erect, naked, except at the base, from si\ to 

 tu 1 1\ <. inches high, round, and smooth. Leaves one or two 

 near the base of each calm, short : months of the sheaths a 

 little hairy. Panicle oblong*, bowing ; ramification* sub 

 sile, short, filiform, simple, the lower collected into' one or 

 two remote brandies; the upper ones alternate. Spikelels 

 pedieelled, very long, linear, from fifty to seventy-flowered. 

 Calyx smooth, obtuse, ( '<>/<>/ smooth, outer valve three nerv- 

 ed. Sera 1 round, smooth, brown. 



IT. P. umoloide*. Linn. sp. pLed. WUUU u 393. Pet:. 

 Ohs. v. 19. 



Erect, smooth, from one to two feet high. Panicle ovate; 

 ramifications short, simple, below fascicled : above solitary, 

 horizontal : spiheiets long-pedicelled, from sixteen to twenty- 

 flowered. Seed oblong. 



Beng, Konee. * 



A most < !< gant species, a native of dry elevated situations. 



Culms, below r.imous. with a small portion resting on the 



o round, the rest erect, and from one to two feel high, round 



s 



and smooth. Leaves few, small, and smooth ; mouths of the 

 sheaths bearded. Panicles half as long as the whole plant, 

 ( n »t. oblong, thin ; ramifications pedum led. filiform, dispos- 

 ed as in mnliiflora. Spiheltfs ovate, from sixteen to tw< ■nt\- 

 flowered, generally of a bluish purple colour. Coro/, outer 

 a al\ e three-nerved, as in P. multipara. Seed oblong", smooth, 

 brown. 



J*\ P. flcruosa. P. 



Sob erect, flexuose, nodding, smooth, from eighteen to 

 tv\ ( nty-four inches high. Panicle ovate, crowded ; ramiji- 

 cations solitary, ramous, expanding, insertions hairy; spike- 

 it ts twenty-flowered. (Sand globular. 



A pretty large species, growing in tufts on old walls, so 



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