Jpluda. TRIANDUIA DIGYJflA. gf-jy 



feet higli — heaves very elegant, somewhat bifarlous, sheathino, pe- 

 tioled, iinear-lauceolate, backwaidly hispid ; from six lo eio-hteeii 

 inches lung ; sheaths smooth, mouths short-stipuled.— Pawfc/es ter- 

 minal, and from the exteiior axils, or, the whole may be considered, 

 as one linear leafy panicle. — Bractes three-llowercd, boat-shaped, 

 with an awned point. — FloKers, one of the three sessile, or rather 

 sitting on a globnlar receptacle, consisting of a common, two-How- 

 ered calyx, one of which is sessile, awned, and hermaphrodite ; the 

 other sessile, male and uwnless ; jnst ^^ith()ut the calyx on each side, 

 there is a bent, compi'essed pedicel, one of these supports a com- 

 mon calyx, with two male, two-valved, awnless flowers, the other only 

 the rudiments of one or more florets. 



2. A. genicidata. R. 



Perennial, creeping, or scandent, intricately geniculate. Leaves 

 Idnceolar. In each calyx one hermaphrodite, and one male flower, 

 all awnless. 



Found on the banks of the Ganges in flower during the latter part 

 of the rains and the cool season. 



Culms creeping, or climbmg nmongst bushes, reeds. Sec. to an 

 extent of manv feet, smooth and slender, bent at angles about a span 

 distance at the swelled joints, emitting nimierous wiry roots, Ail- 

 ed witli spongv pith, the thickest about the size of a crow-quill. 

 — Leaves linear lanceolate, and smooth, but much smaller than 

 in A.aristota. S^cflf//s shorter than the joints. Ljgn/ahcerate. — Fa- 

 vicles termin'al, composed of numerous slender branchlets of distinct 

 fascicles of flowers, each fascicle containing many short pedicelled, 

 three-flowered, boat-shaped, cuspidate, smooth bractes or involu- 

 cres. -^-/Yorc'^rs one of the three sessile, containing one hermaphro- 

 dite, and one male floret ; the other two elevated or broad sulcate ; 

 proper pedicels, one minute and abortive, the other polygamous as 

 in the sessile flower.— CflA/ces of both the sessile and pedicelled 

 flowers two-valved, two-flowered. —Coro/ in all of them two-valved ; 

 vahci unequal, exterior one thin, and transparent. 



