^accharnmo jtriandkia bioyma. 1^9 



A native of the interior, elevated, dry parts of the CoroiAandel coast. 

 Culms straight, from six to twenty-four inches high, smooth — . 

 Leaves long, slender, somewhat scabrous ; mouths of their sheaths a 

 Utile hairy. — Spikes terminal, solitary, simple, cylindric, from three 

 to four inches long. Rachis tlexuose, three-sided. — Flowers numer- 

 ous, solitary, alternate. — Involucre two, rarely oue-tiowered, multi- 

 fid, divisions longer than the flowers, subulate, grooved on the back, 

 inside liany, apex slightly hooked. Both dowers hermaphrodite.— 

 Qalyx three-valved, one-flowered, the exterior one smaller, all are 

 thin, smooth, nerved. — Co/o/ two-valved, valves hard, acute, but not 

 avined, in length nearly equal, and scarcely longer than the calyx.— • 

 Stamina three. — Slyies two, plumose. 



SACCIIARUM. Sckreb. Gen. N. 104. 



Calyx one-flowered, two-valved, girt at the base with wool ; corol 

 uncertain. 



1. S. qiUndiicum. Limi. Sp. PL ed. fVilld. i. 323. 



Culms from one to two feet high, shorter than the leaves. Pani- 

 cle linear, white with the wool of the calyx. Corol and calyx two- 

 valved and diandrous. 



Lagurus cylindrica. Sp. PI. 120. 



S, Thunbergi. Linn. Sp. PL ed. JVilld. i. 323. Retz. Ohs> v. p. 17. 



Gramen caricosum. Rumph. amb. 6. 17. t. 1-f^ 2, 



Beng. 06\oo. 



Teling. Baroomhiss. 



Is a native of moist, stifi', pasture ground, and particularly corn* 

 mon over Bengal, where tiie fields are white with it when in flow- 

 er, after tlie first rains in April and May. 



Root creeping at some depth under the surface. — Culms erect, 

 simple, from one to two feet high, leafy, jointed, joints bearded. — 

 Leaves, those of the root or lower part of the culm are much longer 

 than the ciUm, tapering equally towards each end, smooth, those of 



