os Andropogan. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 275 
on the upper side, three feet long, and three or four sitios broad. 
Sheath as long as the panicle is when young, : afterwards the whole 
is completely bent down from the w eight of the seed.— Flowers pair- 
ed, one hermaphrodite, sessile ; the other neuter, and pedicelled, 
HERMAPHRODITE Frowens sessile. Calyx one-flowered, two- 
-valved, the solitary valve 
valved, both valves hairy. 
daggered ; dagger, shorter than the calyx.—Seed oval, white. 
NEUTER Flowers pedicelled.. Calyx | two-valved, hairy.—Co- 
rol one-valved, awnless. — Stamens none. ; 
Obs. The only circumstance that renders me uncertain whether 
this is Holcus saccharatus of Linneus is the total want of the arista 
in n the — flowers; in other respects they agree, s z 
.30. A.-larus. disi Sp. Pi. ed. Willd. iv. 907. 
" Erect, from one to fifteen feet high. Panicle ovate, lax ; rami- 
yitións sub. verticelled, compound and decompound. Calyx hairy ; ; 
‘corals fringed, those of the her maphrodite three-valved, and awned. 
Beng. Kula- moochg. | : 
Peling. Gaddi-janoo. 2 
Grows in hedges, on banks of water courses, and on land that has 
lately been in cultivation. 
Root somewhat woody, perennial .— Culm near the base bending 
to the earth, and there ‘pooting at the joints, the rest erect ; the 
whole is of a firm ligneous texture, inwardly spongy, jointed, round 
` and smooth ; below naked, above covered by the sheaths of the 
leaves. In Medus on the banks of the rivers, &c. where the soil 
is good, it is often from ten to fifteen feet high; while on a barren 
dry soil, not more than one or two. — Leaves long, smooth, except 
the margins, which ae scabrous.— Panicle very large, oval, often 
bowing, rather thin, ‘composed of sub-verticelled, ramous, spread- A 
ing branches, with woolly insertions ; the branchlets of the branches 
are composed of four or six pedicelled, spiked racemes. Rachis of | 
the spikes jointed, &c.— Fi ‘lowers paired, &c, as in the other species. 
HERMAPHRODITE F LOWERS sen. Calyx two-valved ; ; valve- 
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