3J8 TRiANDUrA DiGYKiA. Arundo. 



ieiect, linear, oblong, dense ; cali/ces, tliree-flowered, much longer 

 than the florets; ghiines of the corol woolly. 



Teliii^. Paioo-ederoo. 



Is found chiefly among bushes on the banks of rivulets, lakes, 

 &c. on the Circar niouniains. 



Culms sword-shaped, smooth, about ten to fifteen inches long, 

 and from one to two broad. — Vaiiick erect, oblong, very much crowd- 

 ed with innumerable ramifications, which stand erect and press 

 close on one another while in seed. — Flowers erect, on a common 

 woolly pedicel within the calyx — Cafyx three-flowered; glumes 

 equal, ponited, larger than those of the flowers. — Corol, exterior 

 valve twice the size of the inner one, it is pointed and woolly on the 

 outside. 



Obs. The leaves seem to be one of those sorts with which the Chi- 

 nese line the inside of their Sugar-candy tubs and other packages. 



2. A. Karla. Linn. Sp. Tl. ed. JVilld. i. 456. Retz. Obs. iv- 21. 



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

 loose, verticelled. Calijces, from three to four-flowered, exterior 

 glume of the corols three-nerved, and daggered. 



Sans 9[^, Nu.la, sf^, Nn]a, IJff'T' T>nuinuna, ^['STi.'^i Potu- 

 gn\a. 



Jjeng. Nal, Nur. 



Telin<r. Naga-sara maitantos. 



Is a native of similar places with the last described. 



Culms evect, ramous, froui eight to twelve feet high, and as thick as 

 the last, round, smooth, entirely covered with the sheaths of the leaves. 

 . Leaves apj-roximate, sword-shaped, smooth, from twelve to twen- 

 ty-four inches long, and one or one and a half broad; moulhs of the 

 sheaths he-dvdiid.— Panicle bowmg with the wind, but if not disturb- 

 ed erect, oblong, composed of many liliform, erect, (in luxuriant 

 jilants drooping,) sub-vertice!kd, ramous branches.— ii^c/<is of the 

 l.ranches angular and hispid.— iVords alternate, on a longer com- 

 nion woolly pedicel than in A. bifaria, within the calyx.— C«/yj from 



