Poo. TEIANDRIA DITYNIA. 337" 



ramifications adpiessed, fsc'u'ed, and approximated. Spikelets 

 from eight to foiirteeu-flowerLd ; seed uldoii^. 



Teliiig. Urenka. 



Delight in a ric!i, moist soil, such as the banks of water courses, 

 borders of rice fields, &.c. 



Culms erect, from hiee to five feet high, generally simple, round, 

 smooth. — I e/Ttrs narrow, long, sharp, and smooh.—Prt///cA^ linear, 

 from one to two feet long ; ramijicatioiis filiform, peduncled, ad- 

 pressed, one, two, or more from nearly the same |>lace, but seldom 

 s> far asunder as iheir own length. SpHce/et-s pedicelled, from eight 

 to fourteen-flowered. — Calijx and corot smooth. — ^eed oblor.g, 

 smooth, hrown. 



Obs. The best mark to distinguish it from the last species is the 

 form of the seed_. which in that ly obovate, in this oblong. Cuttle are 

 not fond of any ot" these Lull, trect, coarse species. 



10. P. dJandra. R. 



Erect, sinoolh. Leaves long, fine-pointed ; jaincle linear, half the 

 length of the whole plant; /awZ/aw^/oy/s scattered, compound, expand- 

 ing, smooth ; spikelets from four to eight-ilowered. Flowers dian- 

 drous. 



A native of Bengal, where it blossoms during the cold season. 



Culms erect, growing in tufts, with few blanches, smooth ; height 

 of the whole plant in a good soil, from three to six feet. — Leaves from 

 one to two feet long, smooth in every part, tapering to a long fine 

 point. — Panicle linear, half the length of the whole i)lant; ramijica- 

 tions thereof scattered, expanding, smooth, compound, from two 

 to three inches {oi\g.— Spikelets lanceolate, small, smooth, from 

 four to ei<»ht-floAvered. — Corol, with both valves smooth, and rather 

 ohinse.— Stamens two. Anthers purple. 



1 1. P. viscosa. Linn. Sp. PI ed. Willd. i. 398. Retz. Ohs. iv. p 20. 

 Culm ascending, from nine to eighteen inches high, clammy. 



Panicle linear-oblong; ramijications verticelled, shoit, spreading i, 



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