ge ÍPRIAWDEIA DICYNTA. —— ‘Andropogon; 
| — P" a pretty long arista, margins amply fringed with | 
long | fulvous hairs.— Coro? in both flowers four-valved ; the exterior 
one on the inside bifid, - awned. 
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~ Qo AL lanceolatus. R. ; 
Leaves lanceolate, with cordate stem:claipiig base, iacit. 
Spikes tern, peduncled. .  Sessil@ or hermaphrodite flower awned, 
‘with the margin of the exterior valve of the seni acutely pectinate, - 
serrate. — Let 
A native of Cotomandel, and very much: like: Paidin jetiquátn. 
Culms scandeut; or creeping, emitting roots from the joints, senis 
perenuial.— Leaves lanceolate, base eordate, and'stem-clas ping, apex 
acute, smóóth on both sides, but the edges from the middle dows, 
bristle-ciliate.-— Spikes terminal, two, three, or four, peduncled. Ra* 
chis and pedicel of the male flower somewhat woolly.—Cadyeeslaü- — 
‘cedlate ; esterio dalte; and chiefly that of the hermaphrodite sessilé | 
flower with the margins minutely and acutely péctinate-serrate.— 
Corol in acces wide arista in the Made uer ome 
"qo. A. wann R: Dice Nisan Madii 
- Climbing, spiked from three to six,” iin Bede: basis | 
‘male corols one-valved, aud awnless, hermaphrodite ones with a & 
one-valved corol and an awn. m n ? 
Grows commonly in hedges, and on that account scandent ; be 
pears and flowers during the rains. ` ee 
- * Oulmslong, ramous, creeping, or climbing over eal ke. eui 
. ting long roots from the joints ; smooth and deeply grooved on L 
side; flower-bearing extremities erect, and about one or two feet 
> Yong; ; joints woolly.— Eeaces sometimes a little hairy on the upper - 
side, moutlis of the sheatlis membrane-stipuled, and hairy.— id x t 
. generally from three to six, terminal, short pedicelled, sub-panicled 
flowers in approximate pairs; one hermaphrodite, and sessile, the | 
other male, and pedicelled. In both the calyx is of vo lancent 
jomewhat hairy valves. In the hermaphrodite one the corol: is xi i 
