Pankum. triandria digynia, 30i 



This is also a native of pasture ground, but chiefly that Mhich is 

 shaded. It is exceedingly like the last described species. 



Culms, creeping, &c. as in the last. — Leaves also the same. — ■ 

 Spikes, the same as in P. grossarium. Spikelets or rather racemes, 

 tlie lower one or two sometimes branchy in lu.xuriant plants, liachis, 

 common striated ; partial three-sided, and downy. — Flower's, the 

 inferior ones in pairs, upon a short, common pedicel ; besides, hav- 

 ing their partial pedicels, one of which is nearly as long as its flowers ; 

 above they are often single, and somewhat remote ; hairs surround 

 the insertion of all.^ — Cah/x hairy. — Curol, the neuter valve is here 

 present. — Seed o\ate, a little pointed, rugose, like that of the last 

 species. 



Obs. Tile chief character consists in the lower flowers of the ra- 

 cemes being paired on a common peduncle, with pedicels of very 

 unequal lengths and hairy involucres. 



28 P. cnspidatum. R. 



Creeping near the base, wholly smooth. Leaves linear, without 

 ligula. Spikes compound, secund ; spikelets adpressed, secund ; /loz0- 

 ers from one to three, equally sub-sessile, all hermaphrodite; xahes 

 of the calyx three-nerved, and cuspidate. Seed cuspidate. 



A native of Bengal. Found in a rich moist soil, in flower and 

 seed in April. 



Culms, numerous in luxuriant tufts, creepingnear the original root, 

 then ascenduig to about two feet in height, ramous, smooth. — 

 Leaves ensiform, smooth, with coloured margins. Sheaths shorterthan 

 the joints, smooth, and completely destitute of ligula. — Spikes com- 

 pound, secund, slightly recurvate, with the secund spikelets on the 

 convex side pressing on the common, three-sided, hispid rachis ; 

 often of a dull purple colour — Tlozeers, from one to three together, 

 and equally sub-sessile. — Calyx, all the glumes three-nerved, and 

 cuspidate, and generally armed with a few minute bristles. — Carol 

 ihiee-valved ;. the third or accessary one membranaceous, and neu- 

 Jer. — Seeds ovate, smooth, cuspidate. 



