Andropogon. SRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, 259 
| Ba As tenellus: 
* Filiform, pes — flowers paired. the sessile ones herma- 
phrodite, and awned ; the pedicelled ones neuter, and awnless ; ex- 
pm 
terior valves of both calyces oblong, striate, hairy, and three-toothed, 
neuter corol of one minute valve. 
-= A most delicate tall grass, a native of Bengal, where it appears 
in hedges, &c. during the cool season. 
Culms from two- to three feet long; at the base resting on the 
ground, ramous, scarcely so.thick as'a pack thread; joints villous.— 
Leaves slender, a few hairs. toward the base.— Spikes paired, erect, 
| short-pedicelled ; outside imbricated with two rows of sessile, awn- 
ed, hermaphrodite flowers ; inside: with rows of pedicelled, awn 
less, neuter ones:—Rachis jointed and hairy.—Calyces two-valved; 
exterior oblong, three-toothed, striated, hairy; interior acute, threes - 
nerved, that of the neuter flower shorter.-— Coro! of the hermaphros 
dite? flower one-valved, with a long brown awn on the opposite; 
oF inner side; that of the neuter flower single, and very minute. 
- 4A, binatus. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd: iv.918. Retz. Obs. ¥. 242 
-—Slender, towards the base creeping ; spikes paired, incurved, flow- 
ers paired, the sessile ones hermaphrodite, and awned, the pedicel- 
; led ones male, with an awnless, two-valved corol. | 
_ A native of Bengal, appears during the cool season. 
Guns very slender, toward the base ramous, and creeping ; ; joints 
witha scanty short beard.— Leaves slender, somewhathairy toward the 
base.—Spikes paired, on a long filiform peduncle, short pedicelled, 
somewhat incurvate ; outside imbricated witli two rows of sessile, 
àwned, hermaphrodite flowers, inside with two very distinct (for they | 
. are separated by a deep groove) rows of pedicelled, awnless, male 
dnes.: Rachis jointed, and hairy —Calyces of both two-valved; erte- 
= rior oblong, hairy, ciliate, five to seven-nerved, edges thin, apex 9f. 
: the male tridentate, of the hermaphrodite obtuse.  Jnner : ives 
acute, three-nerved.— Corel of the hermaphrodite flower of one hya. 
BAe ‘on the outside and an arista for the other ; of the male one 
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