256 © THE DIG YNIA. C Antlaliria, 
HERMAPHRODITE Peaki: Calys two-valved.— Valcelets 
nearly equal, ‘obtuse, smooth, of a firm texture.—Corol one-valved, 
“the place of the second is occupied ‘by a long twisted awn = 
mens three, &c. as in thesgenus. : 
"Marr Fiowers. Calyx two-valved, the exterior dui fringed 
with many strong hairs about the apex.— Coro! oñe-valved— Sta» 
mens three." ; 
32, 3. arundinacea. R. 2 
__. Perennial, straight, from six to twelve feet high ; leaves from fon to 
s “eight feet long, accessary florets male, with both calyces and cord 
_ two-valved ; the exterior valvelet of the former shaggy. 
A native of Bengal. Flowering. time the beginning of egal 
season. _ = fa 
-. Root perennial.— Culms ~A jointed, glaucous, bet ve ny 
‘joints much contracted, round and very smooth, the lower jomis 
the large plant as thick as the fore finger ; every par: filled with white 
spongy pith ; height of the whole plant when in flower, from six to 
sixteen feet. In the Botanic Garden where the soil is rich some t 
plants are full sixteen feet high.— Leaves from six to eight feet long - 
slender, deeply channelled toward the base, recurvate, m margins his- 
pid. The radical ones are bifarious, the floral ones alternate, 
sheaths smooth, compressed, much shorter: than the joints of the 
culm.— Panicle, the whole upper half of each culm may be so Je x 
ed, and is composed of numerous, axillary, very ramous branches | 
; bending elegantly to one side, particularly with a breeze of và 
— Bractes one to each umbellet of flowers, boat-shaped.— Um mp 
lets numerous, long, slender, pedicelled, drooping, each one is com 
posed of four, sessile, awnless accessary male flowers surroi 
and inserted on a short clavate pedicel, which supports an herm 
| phrodite awned flower, and two pedicelled awnless ones. - X. 
Mate FrowEns. Calyx, glume, two-valved, the exterior wie 
.' elothed with much diverging fulvous hair, making it quite shaggy — 
^ Corol, glume, two-valved, linear, membranaceous.—Nectary € oft » 
cuneate, truncated scales,— Stamens three.— Pistil none. — | 
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