Ischemun. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. _ \ 821 
5€. H. ethatus. R. 
Erect, hairy, panicle linear, hirsute. Glumes papillose, ciliate, two- 
flowered, both flowers sessile, one hermaphrodite and awned, the 
other male and awnless. 
A native of Coromandel. i 
Whole plant about a foot high, erect. The culms with bearded 
joints.— Leaves rather large, hirsutely papillose, as are also their 
sheaths.— Panicles linear, shaggy with the numerous hairs of the ca- 
lyces.— Calyx two-valved, two-flowered; valves- nearly equal, con- 
siderably longer than the flower, backs covered with little warts, from 
each of which arises a very conspicuous hair ; apices cuspidate, and 
recurvate.—Corol two-valved in both.— Exterior floret rather larger, 
male, or male hermaphrodite, and awnless ; inner hermaphrodite and _ 
awned.— Stamina three.—Styles two in the hermaphrodite, in the 
male hermaphrodite the rudiments of two, but no germ. 
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ISCHÆMUM. Schreb. Gen. N. 1569. 
Polygamous. Calyx two-valved, two-flowered. Corols two-valved. 
1. I. aristatum. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. iv. 939. 
. Annual. Leaves sword-shaped, ciliate and hairy, with coloured 
margins, Spikes paired, secund. All the calyces two-flowered ; 
valves striated ; exterior of the sessile flower with a bifid membrana- 
 €eous border round the anterior margin ; an awned hermaphrodite 
floret in each flower. 
A native of newly formed pasture land, in various parts of India, 
appearing about the close of the rains. Iti is a scarce grass, and does 
not appear to be fit for cattle. s 
Culms at the base resting on the ground and there rooting, ramous ; 
erect portions from one to two feet long, slender, with woolly joints.— 
Leaves length of the spikes, ensiform, broadest at the base and there 
cordate, hairy, ciliate, with hispid, coloured margins. — Spikes two, 
terminal, secund, from one to two inches long. Rachis flexuose, joint- 
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