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Sect. 4th. Panicles foliaceous. 
39. A. pumilus: R. = ; $ i 
Frect; twelve inches high; pauielés composed of numerous 
axillary, and terminal, conjugate spikes, on loig, jointed, sheathed - 
peduucles. Calyz of, the sees hermaphrodite, flower awned, 
cuspidate. ` i : 
A native of Coromandel, and one of the RM of the genus. 
Culms ramous; erect, smiooth.— Leaves rather small, particularly 
the tloral ones, which are little. more than. lar rye sheaths. — Panicle 
: composed of numerous, axillary, and terminal, conjugate, hirsute, 
'secund spikes, *elevated on slender, jointed peduncles, embraced 
Ry. many delicate, chaffy bractes at the base, and bya sheath from | 
the joint upw ards. — Flowers i in pairs on the joints of the hairy rachis, 
one sessile and hermaphrodite, the other peduncled and male.—Ca- — 
dye two-valved, that of the hermaphrodite flower cuspidate.—Co- 
S "tol. one-valved, an arista occupies the place of a second in the her- 
die flower. : 
$3. A. parviftorus. R. 
Ascending. Leaves linear, | Panicle leafy, thin ; eels soli- 
Bc. with proper, Jointed, leafy spathes ; borh «end awned, ‘the 
pedicelled one a rudiment only. a 
A very beautiful most delicate species, a native of pasture land — 
up amongst the Circar mountains and dio of the mountains them-. 
selves, 
Culms very doen Se ascending, filiform, bod a foot, or a foot 
“anda half. high — — Leaves numerous, small, linear, rather obtuse, _ 
mouths of the shtaths stipuled. -— Spikes axillary, minute, peduncled, ; 
^ generally one or two, rarely three. Rachis jointed and waved as in — 
the other species, but here it is smooth, except at the insertions of 
the: flowers,— Peduncles most slender, jointed at the middle, from - 
Whence a small spathe ascends, which generally hides a part f its 
Spike.— Flowers in pairs ; one hermaphrodite and sessile, es other 
PY the rudiment « of a floret on a long clubbed Neen S 
