95a. : TRIANDRIA DIGYNYAL — Anthistiria, — 
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Culms erect, about two feet high, i in our rich soil of Bengal, more. E 
slender than a crow quill, smooth, and often coloured — Leaves few, 
ensiform ; broadest at- ‘the base and there more ciliate, particularly D. 
_ thesmail floral leaves.—Sheaths much shorter than the joints, smooth, . 
and carinatéd on the back.— Lizula short and chaffy.— Panicles 
sometimes drooping, though in general erect and composed ofa 
few, rather remote, axillary branches. — Involucres longer than the 
flowers, smooth, cuspidate. se 
HERMAPHRODITE FLOWERS bearded at the base — Calyr two ie 
valved; valves hard, obtuse, and somewhat hairy, by age changing. A 
from střaw colour tò dark brown. — Corol one small, pellucid valve, — 
and a very strong, long, thick, brown, hairy awn on the opposite side 2: 
—Stazma three.—Styles two, with ochraceous plumose stigmas, ; 
which become brown. by age. — Nectarial, scales large, with du 5 
truncate apices. - ; . aii i : 
-ACCESSARY FLORẸTS six, all neuter.— Calytes woski hose — 
of the sessile four, papillose, ciliate near the apex ; those of the upper 
, pedicelled two, smaller and rc Caron none, or of one, mado 2 
kyaine valve.—Stamina none, —— a TAA E 
e. A. polystachya, R. Soe ud 
* Culms numerous, sub-erect. Leaves tipet from their iab - 
base.  Accessary Jlorets three-valved, male, exterior = 
sessile four, papillose, ciliate near the apex. ` id 
e native of Bengal, and with the other Species which are natives 
of the same country, appears at the close of the rains, in October 
and November. : 
Culms many; annual, erect, or Aadi, ioak qu one 
.. two feet high.— Leaves about the length of the joints of the 
-taper from the base, and there sometimes sub- ciliate. — Pa 
slender, erect, or nearly so, composed ‘of a few alternate, a E 
branches. — Involucres longer than the flowers, smootb,  sub-aristate oe 
HERMAPHRODITE FLOWERS bearded at the base.— Caly= 
valved, both hard, a little hairy awn on the opposite: side.— oro 
| Wed with a long, strong, hairy awn on the opposite side 
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