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GENUS XXI. PEEOTIS. 



Tvlandrla Dlgynia. Sex: Syati 



Berw. From Peros deficient ; alluding to the flower. 



Gen. CttAK. Thyrse : spikelets linear, 1 -flowered, at length, 

 muoli spreading : glumes membranaceous, hairyish, running into a 

 bristle much, longer than themselves : valves muticous, more than 

 half shorter than the glumes : hypogynous scales 2, shorter than 

 the ovary: ovary obtuse: stigmas simple, plximulose: caryopsis 

 linear, glabrous. 



(1) P. lATTFOtlA. (AH.) 



Ident. Roxb. 1. c. p. 233. — Ait. Hort. Kew I. 85. 



Anthoxanthum Indicum, Linn. — Saocharum spicatum, 



Linn. — ^Agrostis spicseformis, Imn. 



' Engrav. Burm. Ind. t. 9, fig. 3. — Eheede Mai. xii. t. 62. 



Spec. Chak. Root thin and fibrous : culm ascending, 8 — 10- 

 inches, branched below, slender, nodes and sheaths smooth : leaves 

 acute, linear-oblong, short, margins waved and hispid : racemes 

 terminal, erect, cylindrical, lead-coloured, 3-inches long: spikelets 

 Unear-lanceolate, very shortly pedicelled : glumes hairy, terminating 

 in a scabrous awn. 



Peninsula, not very common. 



S£CT. VI. ABITirDIlfrACE^. 



Spikelets sometimes 1 -flowered with or without the pedicel of 

 another flower, sometimes many-flowered: flowers usually beset 

 with long soft hairs or surrounded at the base : glumes and valves 

 2, the latter often equalling or exceeding the flowers; of the 

 former, the lower awned or muticous. 



GEFUS XXII. PHEAGMITES. 

 Tviandria Dig'ynla. Sex: Syst: 



From Ph-agmos a hedge ; it forms hedges. 



Gen. Chae". Panicle: spikelets 3 — 6-flowered: flowers dis- 

 tichous, distant, lowest male, rest hermaphrodite, rhachis beset 



