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Andropogon.  @RIANDRIA DIGYNIA- 265 
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15. A. strictus, R. 
Straight, ramous at the top; base of the leaves ciliate. Spikes 
fascicled on their own proper pedicels; exterior valvelets of both 
calyces pitted ; inner glume of the hermaphrodite corol awned. 
A native of mountains, and their vicinity. 
Culms straight, ramous, about two feet high, and as thick as a 
sparrow’s quill, round and smooth ; ; joints bearded.— Leaves slender, 
alittle hairy, and ciliate near the base ; mouths of the sheaths stipul- 
ed.— Spikes from three to six, long-pedicelled, and collected on 
a common. peduncle, one of which is terminal, and one or two more ` 
from the next one or two exterior axils; very slender, perfectly 
erect, and about an inch long. Rachis asin the former species.— Pe- 
dicels most fine, straight, two inches long, jointed near the base, where 
afine slender spathe begins.—-Flowers in pairs; one hermaphro- 
dite and sessile; the other small and pedicelled. 
HrnwAPHRODITE FLowEms sessile. Calyx as in the genus, 
except that the exterior large valvelet has a large pit in it, as in An- 
dropogon pertusus.— Corol, inver valve slender, ending in a long 
twisted awn. 
Mate Frowzn pedicelled. Calyx one-valved, and pitted as in 
the Hermaphrodite flower.—Corol two-valved, awnless. 
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16. A. polystachyos. R. 
Straight, spikes numerous, axillary, simple, each elevated on along - 
jointed, sheathed peduncle. Flowers, inferior pairs male and awn- 
less ; one of the superior ones is aa and amply awned, the other 
male and awnless. 
A native of the Peninsula of India. The flowers greatly resemble — 
those of A. contortus, ‘but the habit of the grasses is very different. — 
Culms straight, ramous.— Leaves ensiform, straight, acute, Ciliate — 
at the base.—Spikes simple, many together on the axil of the leaves, 
tach elevated high on its long, filiform, jointed, sheathed peduncle, 
length from one totwo inches.— Flowers paired, those on the lower 
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