Arundo. triandria digynia. 347 



veiticelled, expanding, round, sessile, linear spikes, much resembling 

 those of E. indica; spikelets imbricated in two rows on the under side 

 of the spikes. — Ca/yx from eight to twelve-flowered, corol-like.— Co- 

 rol, exterior valve ending in a long dagger, inner valve membranace- 

 ous. — Seed oblong, wrinkled, arilled ; in this species the aril is fully 

 as delicate as in E. ccgi/ptica, and is nearly found whole on the full 

 grown or ripe seed. 



€. E. caly cilia. R. 



Erect, from two to three feet high. Panicle linear. Sjnkes numer- 

 ous, alternate; glumes of the calyces equal, many times larger thaa 

 those of the corol, daggered, three-flowered. S(;ei^ three-sided, wrink- 

 led. 



Teling. V\''adata-toka-g«ddee. 



Grows in small tufts on dry pasture ground, but generally amongst 

 bushes. 



Culms erect, generally about two feet high, much covered by the 

 leaves. — Leaves very thinly scattered with hairs. — Panicle linear, 

 erect, from eight to twelve inches long, composed of many sessile, 

 expanding, alternate, secund spikes 3 spikelets occupying, as in the 

 other species, the under side of the spike. — Calyx generally three- 

 flowered, glumes equal, twice as long as the three tiowers they em- 

 brace, each ending in a long, sharp dagger. — Corol, valves obtuse. — 

 Seed three-sided, wrinkled. I cannot say that I have seen the aril in 

 this species, though I have often looked for it ; it may therefore be a 

 species of Dactylis. 



ARUNDO. Schreb. Gen. 124, 



Calyx tw'o-valved, containing one or more two-valved flowers^ 

 surrounded with long hairs. 



1. A. bifaria. Retz. Obs. iv. 21. Linn. Sp. PL ed. Willd. i. 455. 

 Erect, smooth, leafy, from twelve to eighteen feet high. Panicle 



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