272 F /— TRIANDRIA BIGYNIA. ~ andropogon. 
one a little hairy.—Corol one-valved, a twisted awn two or three 
times the length of the corol supplies the place of the other.—Neu- 
ter ven like the hermaphrodite ones, but without arista. 
96. A. bicolor. R. 
Erect. Panicle diffuse, with espasididel decompound and super- 
 decompound branches; hermaphrodite calyces with smooth backs, 
and fringed margins; corol three-valved, and £wned, calyx of the 
neuter flower hairy with a two-valved corol. | 
Holcus bicolor. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. iv. 929. 
Beng. Kala-deodhan. 
Hind. Kala-jooar. 
Teling. Muka-janoo, and Muka.janoolar the grain. 
I have only found it in a cultivated state. 
Culms generally single, straight, round, smooth, from four to ten. 
feet high, and as thick as the finger or thumb, mostly covered by the 
sheath of the leaves.— Leaves from one to three feet long, and from 
one to three inches broad, smooth ; mouths of the sheaths bearded. 
— Panicle erect, oval, dense, composed of many ramous, expanding, - 
sub-verticelled branches, the various ramifications angular and very 
hispid when the finger is drawn backwards ‘over them, their flow- , 
er-bearing extremities hairy. — Flowers paired, and, as in the genus, 
the sessile one is hermaphrodite and the pedicelled one neuter. 
HenMAPHRODITE Frowers sessile. Calyx, valvelets nearly 
equal, with'the back smooth, and as they ripen becoming ofa shining 
black, with many white-hairs round the margins (ciliated. )—Corol 
three-valved, fringed, the second or solitary valve ending in a short 
twisted arista.— Seeds oval , brown, smooth, "e signi an — 
on the back near the base. ; 
Neuter Ftowrns pedicelled. Calyx stated; hairy.— Corol | 
two-valved, awnless.—S?&mens none. - ia 
Obs. This and the following species A. Sorghum seem to me to 
possess more of the character of Andropogon than of Holcus. I have 
therefore changed their places from the latter to the former. 
