570 MONOF.riA TRIANDRIA. (^oi.V. 



there ii partial spathe,tlieir insertions are intermixed with lan- 

 ceolate, chafty scales. Male flowers in pairs, one a little 

 above the other in a secniid spike above tlie female. Calyx 

 two-flowered ; valvelets obliquely oblong, hairy on the out- 

 side. Coral as in the genus. Female flowers solitary, 

 below the male. Calyx, or involucre, consisting of one oval, 

 very hard, glossy valve, which embraces most completely the 

 corol, its margins are double, not united, and through this 

 duplicature the pedicel of the male spike passes. Corol four- 

 valved, the interior two large and somewhat fleshy. 



The rest as described in the Genera Plantariim. The grass 

 is of a coarse nature. Cattle do not eat it. 



3. C. giguntea. Km. J\Iss. 



Pedicels naked ; male spikes drooping with flowers, three- 

 fold, the middle one pedicelled ; female enrol six-valved, 

 seeds ovate. 



Beng. Danga gurgur. 



Perennial. It grows chiefly in the valleys amongst the Cir- 

 car mountains and in ^ngal. 



Culm erect, ramous to the top, round, smooth, jointed, from 

 eight to fifteen feet high, and as thick as a man's thumb at 

 the base. Leaves from two to four feet long, and about one 

 inch broad ; the upper side and margins backwardly hispid. 

 Sheaths short, and smooth. Spikes as in the last species. 

 Spathes, common, of the peduncles, as in the last; proper, of 

 the pedicels wanting. Pedicels long, filiform, naked, not 

 jointed as in the last species. Male flowers above the fe- 

 male, as in the last, but here they are more numerous, and 

 three-fold : the two lateral ones sessile, and the middle one pe- 

 dicelled, they are closely imbricated round the whole of the 

 spike. Calyx and corol as in the genus. Female flowers 

 single as in the last species. Involucre ovate, entire round the 

 circumference, perforated at the apex for the pedicel of the 

 male spike to pass through; like the others it is smooth, glossy, 

 and becomes exceedingly hard within theinvolucre ; on each 



