Andropogon. . ZRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 269 
22. A. fascicularis. R. 
Erect, ramous. Panicle composed of fascicled, simple, or divided 
branches. Flowers paired; hermaphrodite ones awned ; neuter ones 
awnless and without a corol. 
| Teling. Kunda-jeri. . 
| A native of mountains. 
Culms erect, jointed, smooth, rather thicker than a crow's quill, 
from three to five feet high, sulcated, mostly naked, rush.like, not pip- 
'ed.— Leaves from three to four, small, remote, retrorso-scabrous; 
mouths of the sheath hairy ; from each sheath springs a short panicle- 
‘bearing branch. — Panicle terminal, six inches long, erect, fascicled ; 
fascicles remote, alternate, composed of several erect, filiform, often. 
Tamous, secund spikes, or spiked-racemes.— Flowers in pairs ; the 
hermaphrodite ones sessile ; the neuter peduncled. Common rachis 
‘round, smooth ; partial one undulated, jointed, compressed, woolly, - 
Hermapuropire FLowER. Calyx, glume one-flowered, two- 
valved, smooth, awnless, base surrounded with wool.—Corol, ex- 
terior valve the length of the calyx; inner short, bifid, with a long 
‘twisted awn from the fissure. Neuter floret small, its pedicel wool- 
ly, length of the hermaphrodite tlower.—Calyx two-valved.— Ce- 
rol none. VEM 
23. A. muricatus. Retz. Obs. iii. N. 95. and v. 20. 
Erect in all situations. Leaves sub-bifarious, long, narrow, and 
| rigid. Panicle verticelled, ramifications simple, expanding, herma- 
, Phrodite and male flowers awnless, with muricate calyces, and co- 
rols of three valves. 
| Sans. deat, Veerunung, Jtag, Veeruturung. 
f 
Beng. Bena, the name of the plant, and -Khuskhus the root. 
Tam. Woetiwear. 
|. Virana. Asiat Res. vol. iv. p. 906. : 
l It is very common in every part of the Coast and Bengal where it 
Meets with a low, moist, rich soil, especially on the banks of water 
| S9urses, Kc, $e ; 3 
