a OA 02 CARTTRIANDRIA-DIGYNIA. Andropoge i 
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long, Sear rect) or Siig PRENA VUE composed of 
numerous, (many. of them proliferous,) fascicles. of slender, pedic&l- . | 
Jed, thin spikes of five joints; each fascicle is furnished with, its 
| own proper, boat-shaped-spathe, besides many chatfy bractes with- 
ja i among the imsertions. of the. pedicels; and -a proper. e 
to each pair of spikes.— Fi lowers on the body of the rachis paired; | 
one awned, hermaphrodite, and sessile ; the other awnless, male, and 
pedicelled, the terminal florets are three, one hermaphrodite, sessile, 
and awned ; the other two male, pedicelled, and awnless. 4. — 
- HERMAPHRODITE. Calyx one-flowered, two-valved, base git 2 
with wool, as is also the rachis, and proper pedicels.—Corel t two- = 
: valved, and fringed ; inner valvelets two-parted, with a short arista 
in the fissure. Mike: y two, minute, leaflets embracing the e 
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laterally.— Stamens, pistil, and seed, as in the genus. 
Marr. Calyx asin the hermaphrodite. Coro? 2d 
tary aud.stamens as in the hermaphrodite, no pistil. 
_ Obs. This species comes remarkably, near to A. - Schænanthus both 
in habit and tastes =. PEEL] 
For the virtues of the roots of this xg see Dr. Blane’ ‘s account 
| thereof i in the second part of the 80 volume of the Philosophical 
‘Transactions of the Royal. Society. of- London ; also Asiatic Re- 
searches iv. p. 109. The virtues seem to reside almost entirely. in. 
the larger parts of the root, marked with áanular cicatrices, the taste 
is bira aromatic, with some degree of bitterness, 
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36. A. Martin. R. 
- Perennial, erect, Pani: "les linear, sub-secund ; spikelets pot es 
three-jointed, with common’ spathes only ; Jeeps: carols 
of one vaive, and an awn; male awnless: | ; 
A native of the high lands of Balla-ghat, Genet M artin collee 
ed the seeds while there with the army, during the last war wil = 
Tippoo Suitan, and has reared abundance of it at Lucknow. 
It is also now plentiful iu the Company's Botanic Garden, rais- 
ed from seed sent from thence by that gentleman, Ww hose name have 
et asa specific one for this elegant quas 
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