978 E TRIANDRTA DIGYNIA. - | Andropogon. 
34. A. SONS. Linn. sy. PI. ed. Willd. i iv. 915. : 
Perennial, erect. Panicle sub-secund, linear, leafy ; spikelets 
thereof paired, on a common, spathed pedicel, with proper pedicels . 
and spathes ; flowers of both sorts awnless, the male corol one-valv- 
ed. 5 . 3 
Sans. qium Malatrinukung, waa, gman 
Beng. Gundha-bena. um 
. Ramacciam. Rheed. Hort. mal. 19. p, 137. t. 79. 
Scheenanthum amboinicum. Rumph. amb. 5. p. 181.¢. 72 of By 
Scheenanthus, or Juncus odoratus of the Materia Medica. 
On the Coast I have only found this elegant valuable species in 
a state of cultivation, few gardens being without it; I have but 
twice found it in flower and both times during the rainy season." - 
Roof per ennial, young propagating-shoots i issue from tlie axils of 
the leaves that’ surround a short, sub-ligueous leaf-bearing culm.— 
_ Culms from five to seven feet high, erect, simple, smooth, about as 
_ thick as a goose quill.— Leaves many, near the root bifarious, few. 
on the upper part of the culm, of a soft texture, pale green CO7 
lour, slightly. scabrous, on the margins when drawn backward 
against the fingers, otherwise smooth ; from three to four feet long 
including their sheaths, and about three-quarters of an inch broad. 
Floral leaves small.— Panicle linear, a little bent to one side, com- ` 
posed of many fascicles of spikes that are both terminal, and from 
the exterior axils.— Spikes generally paired on a common pedun- 
cle, with a common boat-like spathe, or involucre at the division ; 
each has also its proper pedicel, and both spathe-shaped. Rachis 
articulated, much waved, hairy.— Flowers in pairs, one hermaphro- 
dite and sessile, the other male and pedicelled ; the last hermaphro- - 
dite flower of each spike has two males ; below, only one male, 35. 
, the rachis occupies the place of the other ; this is the case with most 
of the species of the genus. ; j ; 
HERMAPHRODITE FLowrnms sessile. Glume girt at the base 
with wool, &c. as in the family.—Coro/ two-valved, awnless. Nec- 
* In the Norih of Bengal large tracts of waste land are covered with it. Ed - 
