254 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Andropogon, 
Teling. Yeddi. : 
Grows in tufts on rich pasture ground, 
- Culms near the base spreading a little, there compressed _ 
and ramous, the rest from one to two feet high, erect, round, 
and smooth ; joints smooth. Leaves below bifarious, middle- 
sized, upper side scattered with a few hairs, margins and 
mouths of the sheaths hairy. Spikes always single, terminal, 
bowing, cylindric; rachis jointed, waved, round, below 
where it is occupied by the male and neuter flowers smooth; 
above’ where the female flowers are, it is covered with much 
short, brown hair. Flowers numerous, imbricated in pairs; 
on the lower half of the spike they are all neuter, or male, 
and awnless, one sessile, one pedicelled; on the upper half 
the sessile flower is female, and the pedicelled one male, .- 
MALE or neuter FLowers, Calyx two-valved, one-flower- 
ed ; exterior valyelet green, and covered with stiff white hair; 
inner valve membranaceous, and smooth, except the margins, 
which are slightly ciliate. | Corol two-valved, membranace- 
ous, margins slightly ciliate. Stamens three or none. 
Femaue Fuowers.  Caly2 one-valved, one-flowered, ti- 
gid, embracing the corol on all sides, brown, a little hairy. 
Corol one-valved, small, the place of the other is mention se 
a very long, twisted. arista, | 
3. A. tenellus. R. 
_ Filiform, spikes paired, Fuses aa Paces. ones 
hermaphrodite, and awned ; the pedicelled ones neuter, and — 
awnless ; exterior valves of both. calyces. oblong, strinte,’ se 
hairy, and three-toothed ; neuter corol of.one minute valve. 
A most delicate tall grass, a native of Bengal, where it tape 
pears in hedges, &c. during the cool season, 
Culms from two to three feet long ; at the base nesting on 
the ground, ramous, scarcely so thick asa pack thread ; pe 
villous, Leaves slender, a few hairs toward the base. Spike 
aired, erect, short-pedicelled ; outside imbricated with we 
rows of sessile, awned, nacelle flower, insid earth ee 
