Andropogon. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, 253 
SECT. I. With terminal Seibel 
1. A. serratus, Retz, Obs. v. mi Linn, sp, pl. ed, Willd, 
iv. 903. 
Spikes solitary, or paired, imbricated with sessile, herma- 
phrodite, awned flowers on the outside, and two rows of awn- 
less pedicelled male ones on the inside. v1 
Sans. Venee, Khura, Guree, Uguree, Khuraguree, Cutiggil 
ree, Devutara, Jeemoota, 
Beng. Detara, or Detta. 
. Anative of pasture ground. Flowers during the cold sea- 
son. ' 
Culms at and near the base creeping, branchy, with only 
about a foot of their flower-bearing extremities erect, and as 
thick as a sparrow’s quill, round, smooth, joints slightly vil- 
lous. Leaves small, inside a little hairy, mouth of the sheaths 
hairy. Spike terminal, generally solitary, though sometimes 
there are two or even three; when single, long-peduncled, 
when two, each has a very short, erect pedicel ; the spike or 
spikes are about an inch and a half long. Flowers in pairs, 
numerous, imbricated, on one side are two rows of sessile, her- 
maprodite ones, and in the other two rows of pedicelled ones; 
male rachis waved, jointed and hairy. “Hermaphrodite flow- 
ers sessile. Calyces two-valved, the exterior one broad, com- 
pressed, striated, a little hairy, rounded at the apex; mar- 
gins fringed with hairs; involucre smooth, glossy, keeled, 
pointed. Corol of the hermaphrodite flower one-valved ; the 
arista which is pretty long and twisted, occupies the place of 
a second ; that of the male twe.valved; thei inner one e slender 
