276 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. |. Andropogon, 
lets. equal, hairy.— Corol three-valved, membranaceous, margins | 
fringed with hairs ; the second one retuse, with a pretty long twist- - | 
ed arista ; the inner one very small.— Nectar, 'y as in the Jast species. A $ ; 
MALE Fiows Rs pedicelled, Calyx asin the hermaphrodite. x, 
Corol two-valved. j 
de miliaceus. R. 
sd from six to ten feet high. Pond ample, lax ; ; ramifica- UK 
tions verticelled, expanding, or drooping. ^ Coro! three-valved, in 
both hermaphrodite and male flowers. . ^. E 
The seeds of this most beautiful stately grass were sent me from 
Lucknow, by the late Gen. Claude Martin, under the name of hill 
grass. It being a native of the mountains. north of Oude. ‘It blós- i 
soms iņ this garden during the latter part of the rains. — 
Culms exect, ramous, smooth, the largest of them nearly as-thick 
as the little finger, general height (in the rich soil of the’ Botanic é 
Garden) about ten fcet.-- Leaves ensiform-lanceolate, soft, and. 
smooth, except the margins, which are armed with minute sharp 
bristles, pointing forward, general length trom two to three feet, and - 
"from one to two inches broad near the base, where.  broadest.— 
Sheaths smooth, except at the mouths, and there bearded on both 
sides.— Panicle very large, erect, with long, slender, smooth, ele- 
gantly drooping, verticelled, compound, and decani ramifica- 
tion.— Flowers in pairs, as in the genus; one hermaphrodite, and - 
sessile ; the other male, and pedicelled.—Calyr two-valved, one- 
dred, oval, rather obtuse, and hairy, but without the charactet- — — 
istic woolly, or hairy involucre round the base of the Bowers.— Co- 
`- rolin both sorts three-valyed, membranaceous, and fringed, soms- 
times the hermaphrodite flower is awned. Nm two, foris | 
broad, truncated, fringed scales. ^b os 
Obs. ln habit this beautiful species comes: near my Andropogon 
tumbuckianus, from the Gape of Good Hope, but is more eleganti 
the panicle. : ts 
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