332 TRiANDRi.l DiGYNiA. Pommereulla. 



it stands oti a short pedicel and consists of two ob cordate, awned 

 valvelets ,* awn and margin of the valvelets coloured. j|^ 



Obs. Cattle eat it till in flower ; after wliicli I never saw any animal 

 touch it. 



A. Q. poly si achy a. R. 



Spikes from ten to twenty, fascicled. Exterior glume of the her- 

 maphrodite flower with ciliate margins ; neuter florets two, with sin- 

 gle smooth valves. 



A native of the Peninsula of India. 



Culms below procumbent for a lilile way, then erect, and about 

 two feet hi^'h. — Leaves as in other grasses, and smooth. — Spilces 

 about sixteen, in a terminal, sub-fastigiate umbelliform fascicle, 

 secund with the alternate spikelets, or flowers iX)inting to opposite 

 sides, length from two to three inches. — L'c^x of two, unequal, lan- 

 ceolate, boat-shaped, smooth, jiermanenWwnless valves, which 

 contain one, two-valved, hermaphrodite, awned flower; and two 

 peduncled, one-valved, awned, neuter florets. Tiie exterior valvelet 

 of the hermaphrodile flower has its margins ciliate. 



FOMMEREULLA. Schreb. Gen. K 97. 

 Calyx, glumes two-valved, from three to four-flowered ; valvelets 

 four-cleft, awned on the back. 



1. P. Corucopiae. Linn. Sp. Tl. ed. JVilld. i. 314. Lahl. En. Tl. 

 ii. 393. R. Corom. PI. ii. N. 131. 



A very singular, small, rare grass ; growing under bushes on dry 

 uncultivated ground. 



Root, Culms, and Leaves, as described by Kiinig, but mine has the 

 spike compound and^ecund, the rest as he says, alba base abvoUu- 

 ta folia sub-spalheformi.— S/^/tu/i.s distichus, each having an invo- 

 lucre of two, lanceolate, acute, membranaceous valves. Within these 

 two valves, is a short, clubbed, downy pedicel supporting the partial 

 spikelets of four flowers, with their common calyx, it is joined to 



