Paspaium. trianduia digynia. 2S1 



Root perennial, with long wiry fibres. — Culms erect, from three 

 to six feet high, often ramous, smooll;, tilled with a spongy pitli. — 

 heaves very long, tapering to a very tine point, smooth in every 

 pai t and of a soft delicate texture. — Sheaths shorter than the joints 

 on full grown plants, with a membranaceous stipulary process at 

 the mouth. — Fanicles as in A. Jzcarancusa ; spik^/ets paired, but 

 with only three joints. — Flowers also paired, &.c. as in the former 

 species, only there the lowermost pair on the most sessile of the two 

 spikeiets are both male, and one of them rests upon a smooih, con- 

 vex, callous receptacle instead of a pedicel. — i^ac/ns jointed, and 

 woolly. — Calijx as in A. Izcurancusa. — Corol one-valved, a long 

 biack awn occupies the place of the other, which has two small fi- 

 laments near its base. Neciaiy, 8cc. as in the foregoing species. 



Obs. General IMartin, who sent me this grass from Lucknow, 

 writes to the following effect: 



*•' I took particular notice of a sort of long grass which the cattle 

 were voraciously fond of, which is of so strou'j: an aromatic and 

 pungent taste, that the flesh of the animals, as also the milk and 

 butter, have a very strong scent of it. Of this, grass I send you a 

 small stalk, some roots, and seed ; if you taste the latter, though old, 

 you will find it of a very pungent aromatic taste." 



P ASF ALUM. Schreb. Gen. N. 81. 



Ca/yr one-flowered, two-valved, valvelets rounded, equal. Carol 

 of two-valves, and like the calyx. Seed adhering to the corol. 



1. P. scrobiculatum. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. IJ'i/ld. i. 330. 



Spikes, axillaiy and terminal, sessile, alternate, erect. Flodiers al- 

 ternate, in two rows, or crowded, smooth. Calyces from three 

 to five-nerved. Culms erect, two feet high, smooth. Seed round, 

 smooth. 



Sans. ^XT'^T'^' Korwdoosha, v^j"^^, Kodri/va. 



Beng. Kod«. 



Hind. Koda-ka-choul. 



Teling. Aruga. v . •< 



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