SS6 TSIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Pott. 



From Canton in China the seed was received into the Botanic 

 Garden, w!ie:e the plants grow freely and blossom during the rains 

 and the cool season. 



7. P. ciliata. R. 



Smoolh, sub-erect, fiom one to two feet hi<:h. Pai)irls columnar; 

 spikelets from sis to twelve-flowered; mnr^his of all the valvelets of 

 the calyces and enrols ciiiate. Seed f^lobular*. 



Js generally found on a poor dry soil. 



J?oo^ perennial. — Culms erect, rigid, smooth ; from one to three feet 

 high. — Leaves smooth,mouth of the sheal^sddwny. — r^////c^ colum- 

 nar, from two to four inches long, branches thereof ciowded, inser- 

 tions hairy, spikelets from six to twelw -'lowered, — Calijx, maigais 

 ciiiate. — Corot, the margins of both valves much cilijue, the exterior 

 one has three nerves and is pointed, the iimer one two-nervtd — ^eed 

 cbovate, smooth^ brown, dropping from the corol when rijie. 



8. P. inierrupta. Run. Mss. 



Erect, smooth, from one to three feet high ; r ami ficaf ions of the li- 

 near panicle short, and collected into remote fascicles. tjAkelels 

 from six to twelve-tlowered. Seed obcordate. 



Teling. Nakurnaral. 



Grows about at the borders of rice fields. 



Clums generally erect, from one and a half to three feet high, round, 

 smoolh. — Leaves w^now, long, sharp, and smoolh. — Panicles erect, 

 irom si.\ to twelve inches long, linear ; ramijications sessile, nearly 

 erect, remote, particularly those of the lower part, where they are 

 often twice their length asunder ; one, two, or more from the same 

 point, which makes it appear vertictlled. — Spikelets minute, pedi- 

 celled, from six to twelve-flowered. — Corol, valves smooth.— -.6>e(i 

 as in the last two species. 



f). P. mitans. Linn. Sp. Fl. ed. Willd. i. S95. Relz. Obs. iv. 19. 

 Erect, smoolh, from three to five feet high, panicles contracted} 



