334 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Po«. 



Leaves as in other grasses, smooth ; mouths of the sheaths bearded. 

 — Panicle hirge, oval, composed of long, alternate, fiUforni, simple, 

 expanding, secund branches. Spikelets allernate, from foar to six- 

 flowered, short-pedicelled, expanding, in two rows froju one side 

 of the simple branches. 



3. P. procera. R. 



Smootli, erect, from three to five feet high. Ligula large ; rami- 

 fications of the panicle simple ; spikelets pedicelled, rather remote, 

 linear, many-flowered. » 



Teliuz- Rewa. 



Delights in a moist rich soil. • 



Culms nearly erect, branchy, from three to five feet high, round, 

 smooth, much covered by the sheaths of the leaves. — Leaves long, 

 slender and smooth. Sheaths longer than the joints, with their mouths 

 crowned with a long ragged membranaceous process. — Panicle 

 large, from nine to eighteen inches long, oblong, bowing a little, 

 composed of numerous, long, filiform, expanding racemes, scatter- 

 ed round the common rachis; which is filiform, waved, three-sided, 

 and hispid. Spikelets alternate, pedicelled, linear, remote, many- 

 flowered. 



4. P. cynosuroides. Linn. Sp. PL cd. Willd. i. 393. 



Smooth, straight, from one to three feet high. Leaves long and 

 acute. Panicle straight, sub-cylindrical; ramifications horizontal, 

 spikelets depending, from six to twelve-flowered. 



Uniola bipinnata, Linn. Sp. PI- 104. 



Sans, ■^•^i, Koosha,^^:, Koo\.ha,-^-^i,Durhha,j;ffTSrSfi, PuMtruug. 



Cusa or Cusha. Asial. Res. iii. 255. and 490. and iv. 249- 



J3eng. Koosha. 



Teling. Dmbha, D?<bha,or Dwrpa. 



A strong coarse species, a native of dry barren ground. 



Root creeping, perennial.— Cm//«s straight, rigid, round, smooth, 

 from one to three feet h^h.- Leaves numerous, very lorg, chiefly 



