Anthistiria, TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, 251 
6. A. eymbaria, R. 
. Erect, ramous. eaves many times longer than ‘their 
sheaths. Involucres smooth. Accessary florets male, with — 
a two-valved, ciliate calyx, and a one-valved, awnless corol. 
Andropogon cymbarius. Linn. mant. 303. sp. pl.ed. Willd. 
iv. 909. ; 
-Teling. Pedda Ghella. 
This is a large species, I have —_— found it — 
bushes on mountains, 
Culms many, erect, ‘from ddiiee to six feet high, very ra- 
mous, smooth, solid, ligneous, joints smooth. Leaves large in 
proportion to the size of the plant. Pamnicles linear, leafy, 
erect, composed of innumerable bracted fascicles like those 
of the last described. Bractes boat-shaped, ending ina 
very long, subulate point, sometimes coloured, and in luxu- 
riant plants fringed with many long rigid hairs, Flowers 
seven in each fascicle or umbellet as in the last, and dispos- 
ed exactly in the same manner, only here the four male 
flowers that surround the base of the —— 
sessile, 
HERMAPHRODITE Pesca? hile Geetuived, Vales 
lets nearly equal, obtuse, smooth, of a firm texture. Corol 
one-valved, the place of the second is occupied by ee 
twisted awn. Stamens three, &c, as in the genus, 
Maze Fiowers, Calyx two-valved, the exterior vile 
fringed with many strong hairs about the apex. Corol one- 
valved. Stamens —s é 
7. A. arundinacea, R, epee a Tae 
Perennial, straight, from six to twelve feet thigh aaa S 
from four to eight feet long; accessary florets male, with both 
pp seaman! sooo the exterior valvelet of the . 
: ng time the Béprining of the 
cool ate | 
~ Root pec Culms sinight, jointed, glaucous, between 
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