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264 m  TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Andropo, 'epogon. ns- 
13. A. Ischemum. Linn. Sp. PT. ed. Willd. iv. 921. ° 
Spikes from six to eight, fascicled, peduncled ; rachis hairy. Flow= — | 
grs lanceolate ; hermaphrodite, sessile, and awned ; male pedicelled — 
and awnless ; calyces acute ; exterior valve hairy. | 
A native of Coromandel, a stout, erect species, with a branch — 
from the axil of each of the superior smooth short leaves, having 
much the appearance and habit of Bladhi and pertusus; from the 
former it differs most conspicuously in the valves of the calyces. 
being acute, whereas in Bladhii they are broad and rounded ; and 
from periusus in the want of the pit on the back of the exterior. 
valve of the hermaphrodite flower. 
Sect. Le With long peduncled, axillary spikes. 
14. A. E R. c3 
— Ereet, filiform, with erect, filiform, branches at the top.- "dpi. 
solitary, flowers hermaphrodite, and female ; exterior valvelet of ihe , 
calyces and corols of both awned, Hiedhiaphisdite: monandrous. = 
— A native of mountainous countries. B j 
Culms many, ramous, filiform, straight ; about a foot high, round 
and smooth.— Leaves small, base and mouths of the sheaths hairy.— 
Spikes generally solitary, terminal, and from the exterior axils, long- - 
peduncled, straight, about an inch long.— Peduncles, filiform, joint- $ | 
ed, and spathed at the middle. ^ Rachis jointed, winding, hairy — 
Flowers numerous, iubricated in pairs; one, the |hermaplirodite;s si 
sile and the other, female, pedicelled. — ited 4 
HERMAPHRODITE FLOWERS sessile. Calyx einai, nar 
]y equal, exterior valvelet ending in a long slender arm, the inne ds né 
with its apex obtuse, and bearded.— Corol, exterior valve ehdi 
long slender awn.—Stamen one.— Styles two, &c. as iu the’ ant 
FzMALE Fiowers pedicelled. Calyx abd córol as in the hér- 
maphrodite ones; only the inner vane ng the bhp is P dud 
bearded, i ; ; à j oru n 3 i Sar a 
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