55S TRiANDRiA DioTNri. HQiibeellm, 



and smooth Spikes terminal and from the exterior axills several, 



peduncled — Peduncles liliform, curved, jointed near the base and 

 there bracted, besides there are chafly, filiform bractes at their inser- 

 tions. — Flozvers alternate in two rows ; one row on each side of the 

 sj)ilve. — Cnlyx two-flowered, two-valved. — Corof, one hermaphrodite 

 widiiu, and one male without, each has two valves, sometimes there 

 is only one hermaphrodite floret, in which case it has three valves. 



5 K. pel f oral a. Corom. PI ii. N. 182. 



Culms erect, smooth, from three to five feet high. Spikes so\U 

 tary, btlow the flowers are opposite, and the rachis perforated. 

 Cuf</v generally two-flowered ; one flower male, the other herma- 

 phrodite. 



J] I iff. K/nke". 



Tiling. Pariookoo. ' 



This specie s is rather scarce, it grows on low rich pasture ground. 



Culms many, erect, simple, round, smooth, jointed, but not piped ; 

 from three to five feet high, and about as thick as a crow quill. — 

 Leaves small for the size of the grass, slender and smooth ; margi/is 

 hispjd ; moiUks of the sheaths and a little way up the base of the 

 leaves woolly. — Spikes terminal, and from the exterior arills, solita- 

 ry, peduncled, round, smooth, as thick as a crow quill, and from 

 three to six inches long; where the flowers are opposite, there is an 

 oblong perforation of the rachis, so that the backs of the inner glumes 

 ot" the calyx touch one another. — Flowers in pairs, nearly opposite 

 on the lower half or more of the spike ; above alternate, sometimes 

 all hermaphrodite, sometimes hermaphrodite and male mixed. — • 

 Caljjx one or two -flowered, two-valved ; valveleis simple ; the exte- 

 rior one rigid, the interior one firm and white, both obliquely linear- 

 oblong. — Corolf when single, hermaphrodite, andthree-valved ; wlieii 

 double the exterior one is male, in which case the two have four 

 valves, viz. two valves each ; all membranaceous, in shape conform- 

 ing to that of the calyx, but smaller. 



