Poa. RTIANDRIA DIGYNIA.. 333 



the involucre by an articulation and drops off most readily, par- 

 ticularly when drv, leaving the involucre attached to the rachis. — - 

 Cj/y.r, Corol, and Stamens, are as Kbnig describes them ; but the 

 germ is obcordate, and there are always two styles with feathery re- 

 curved stigmas. — Seed as he describes it. 



POA. Schreb. Gen. N. 114. 



Calyx two-valved, containing many ilowers of two unequal valv- 

 lets disposed alternately on distichous spikelets. 



#P. hifaria. Vahl. symbol, ii. 19. Linn. Sp. P/. ed. mild. i. 401. 



Smooth ; culms straight, from one to two feet high. Spike ter- 

 minal, straight, secund- Spikelets sessile, alternate, bifarious, the 

 inferior from four to six-flowered, above many-flowered. 



Teling. Wcoda-tallum. 



I believe Kbnig called it Poa malabarica. 



Grows on mountains and other dry situations. 



Culms straight, simple, from twelve to twenty-four inches high, a 

 little compressed, smooth. — Leaves small, smooth. — S^i/ces straight, 

 secund, from four to eight inches long. Spikelets alternate, sessile, 

 lanceolate, in two spreading row s, though issuing from one side of 

 the common rachis. — Calyx below, from four to six-flowered ; above 

 many-flowered. 



2. P. chinensis. Linn. Sp. Tl. ed. Willd. i. 395. 



Smooth, from two to four feet high. Panicle of many alternate, 

 simple, expanding, secund ramifications ; Spikelets alternate, short- 

 pedicelled, from four to six-flowered. 



Beng. B//ra-pnu'-nMti. 



A large, beautiful species, growing on the borders of water courses, 

 and places where there is much moisture. 



Culms ramous, creeping near the base, above expanding, trom 

 two to four feet high, every part smooth, and a little compressed.— 



