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"wg CCTRIANDRIA aean Andropogon: 
of two very unequal hyaline valves.— Styles two ; stigmas purple; vil - 
loüs.— Seed oblong, smooth. "E 
g DA: sonja behu R. Dep ka 
Straight, very ramous, filiform. Spikes conjugate, both flowers — 
hermaphrodite, and both awned ; exterior valves of the —_ lan- 
ceolar, and copiously ciliate. ; d 
A native of Bengal, and the smallest of the genus Ihave pii ipet i 
with. Flowers during the cool season.‘ "m 
Root a few very slender; brown fibres.— Culms in Es ni sexy 
ramous, filiform, erect, smooth, even the joints 5 from six to twelve — 
inches high.— Leaves minute, a few hairs near the base, —Spikes al- 
ways exactly paired as in most species of {schæmum; erect, faton 
the inside, where they touch each other. Rachis winding, and. clothe 
ed with long, silver-coloured hairs, length about an inch —bPow 
ersin pairs, one sessile, one pedicelled, both hermaphredite, and both Bo 
 awned.—C alyces two- valved, one-flowered ; exterior valve in both - 
lanceolate, with the margins copiously c ABS, two-valved 5 
valves transparent, and brown, that (the inner) which gives support — 
to the arista, bifid.—Stamezs three. Styles two. Stigmaslongand — — 
pun. = "Lac itai 1 
6. A. filiformis. R. nera Kon ; | d ie 
. Filiform, annual, erect. | Spikes paired. Flowers all sessile, soli- 
tary hermaphrodite, diandrous, with a còrol of one valves which cady : 
in a long awn. M 
This is the most délicate species I have ‘yet 1 met with “appears e 
in small tufts, on pasture land near Calcutta, j in the months of Onhee 
ber, Nov ‘ember, and December. 
Culms numerous, filiform, smooth, erect, Pome nine to twelve inches, 
high.— Leaves small, slender, and mooth.— Spikes two, terminal, flic —— 
form, sc arcely two. inches long.— Flowers all hermaphrodite, solitary, — us 
sessile, no pedicelled flower being found, no pubescence about tbe — 
calyx, no rachis.— -Calyx two-valved, one-flowered. —Corol of one — 
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