- 3966 (00 T p XRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. .— Andropegon. 
two-thirds of thé spike are all male, and awnless, and, as usual, one 
- of them sessile, the other short-pedicelled ; superior pairs, theses- 
-sile one of each of these is a slender female, amply bearded at the 
base with much dark brown hair, which is the more conspicuous as 
every other part of the spike i is smooth ; the other short- pedicelled, 
male, and awnless, like the inferior pairs. : 
Marx Frowers: Calyx two-valved.— Corol two-valved:—Sta- 
mina three. 
. FeMALE Flowers.  Calyr of one linear, striated, hard, dark- 
brown valve.—Corol one-valved with a very long, twisted awn on 
the other side.—Stamina noue. Styles two. 
Sect. 3d. Panicles naked, and terminal. 
17. A. aciculatus. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. iv. 906. 
Creeping Leaves shorter than their sheaths. | Panicle linear-obs 
long, erect, ramifications three-flowered, one hermaphrodite, sessile, 
and two male, peduncled. 
Gramen aciculatum. Rumph. Amb. 6. t. 5. Fa good. 
- Raplis trivalvis. Lour. Cochinch. 676. 
Kudira-pullu. Rheed. Mal. 12. p. 97. t. 43, 
— Sans. aleat, Shunkhiuee, uuu Chora-pooshpee, Staats 
Keshinee. 
Beng. Chora-kanta. 
Grows on barren, moist, pasture ground ; its seeds are exceeding. 
ly troublesome to those who walk where it grows, as they stick in 
the stockings and produce a disagreeable itching. 
Culms straight, simple, from one to two feet high, round and smooth 
— Leaves small, waved, with the margins prickle-ciliate-—P aniclé 
terminal, erect, linear-oblong, from two to three inches long: Ra- 
mifications (or rather peduncles) verticelled, simple, three-flowere¢s 
-nearly erect; apex armed with short stiff hairs.— Flowers, one #- 
sile, herniaplirodee and two pedicelled male ones on each peduncles 
HERMAPHRODITE FLOWER. Calyx two-valved, nearly equal; - 
the inner one énds in a short arista, and has the keel scabrous ; P ¿hese 
