29^ tniA?.Dn.rA BiGY.xiA. Tdnkumi 



there is an av.n, or tlie rufliineiits of a second floret accompanying it. 

 — Calj/x, llie exterior glume as huge as the next uilliin it, and tnt'- 

 ing in a long waved, purple awn ; exterior glume rather lottger. — 

 Carol no neuter, nor f7ia/e iloiet. — Seed oblong, smooth, slightly 

 three-nerved. 



Obs. Cattle are not fond of it. 



e2. P. Burmanni. Linn. Sp. Vl cd. JVilld. i. 339. Helz. Obs, 

 iii. /v. 16. 



Culms, creeping. Leaves lanceolate, hairy ; jflowers hermaphro- 

 dite ; all the valvelets of the calyces huiry, and awncd. Seed slen- 

 der, smooth, pointed. 



P. hirteUuni. Burni. Ind. 24. t. ]2.f. 1. • 



Hippogrostis amboinica. lluinph' aiab. vi. p. 14. /. 5 f. 3. 



This species is always found on pasture ground, under the shade 

 of large trees. 



Calms, creeping, branchy, with their extremities erect. — Leaves 

 sheathing, lanceolate, waved, hairy ; sheaths half the length of the 

 joints ; very hairy. — Spikes con)pound, secund, erect. Spikelet^ from 

 four to eight, alternate, secund, adpressed. liacliis, common and par- 

 tial three-sided. — Llozocs generally paired; one sessile the other 

 pedicelled. — Ca/j/x, the two exterior glumes are hairy, and have 

 long awns , that of the inner is shorter and smoother. 



23. P. stagninnm. Linn. Sp. Fl. ed. JViJld. 1. 337. 



Culms, from one to four feet liigh. Leaves smooth. Flozcers po- 

 lygamous, three-fold, sub-sessile. Calj/ccs hairy, and hispid ; inner 

 \aI^elets awned. 



Bencr. Dul. 



Teling. Pedda-woondoo. 



Delights in wet, cultivated, paddy lands. 



Culms, towards the base resting on the ground, and striking root ; 

 above erect, which part is from one to four feet high. — Leaves 

 smooth, soft; with only tlic mouths of the sheaths ciliate. — Spikei 



