S84 TRIANDRIA X»IGYNIA> LdppagO. 



four, simple, diverging spikes, scattered alternately round a three- 

 sided racliis, nearly a foot iu length. — Sj>ikes sessile, with a few, 

 long, straight, white lairs round their insertions, about three inclies 

 lona. Rachis tiat, with a waved keel on the underside, aiid coloured, 

 waved margins. — F/uwers m numetous, alternate, imbricated pairs 

 OH ihe underside of the flat rachis, on unequal, short-pedicels. — 

 Caliji cf two, verv equal, oval leaflets with a nerve or rib round the 

 margins, and one down the middle. — i^eeds oval, dotted unh innu- 

 m&iable, small pits, shining. 



LAPP AGO. Schreb. Gen. N. 131. 

 Calyx from two to tin ee-valved. — Corol two-valved, resupine. 



1. L. hifGra. R. 



Culms creeping. Pedicels two-flowered ; inner valvelets of the 



calvx armed with hooked bristles. 



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Phalaris mnricata. Forsk. descripti 202. 



It is a small, prostrate grass, a native of the dryest pasture ground 

 on the Coromandel Coast. 



Culms pressing on the earth, and striking root from the joints, from 



'six to twelve inches long, ramous Leaves short, margins ciliate, 



and waved ; mouths of the sheaths bearded. — Racemes termmal, sim- 

 ple, from one to two inches long.^ — Pedicels short, diverging, two- 

 flowered. — Flozcers lanceolate, echinated on the back, or outside, 

 diverging on all sides round the rachis, which is waved, aiigular, 

 striated, and downy. — Calyx one-flowered, two-valved ; the exteiior 

 valve very minute, second or inner valve, (for there is no other,) 

 lanceolate and completely embracing the corol on all sides, en the 

 back and sides covered with many, strong, hooked bristles. — Co- 

 rol two-valved, membranaceous. Nectarial scales large, — Stamens, 

 Pistil, &c. as in the genus. 



