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se TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Andropogon. 
. A native of Coromandel, and very much like Panicum 
setigerum. 
Culms scandent, or creeping, emitting roots from the joints, 
seems perennial. Leaves lanceolate, base cordate, and stem- — 
clasping, apex acute, smooth on both sides, but the edges, 
from the middle down, bristle-ciliate... Spikes terminal, two, 
three, or four, peduncled. Rachis and pedicel of the male 
flower somewhat woolly. Calyces lanceolate ; exterior valve, 
_and chiefly that of the hermaphrodite sessile flower with the 
margins minutely and acutely pectinate-serrate, Corol in 
both two-valved, with an arista in the hermaphrodite one. 
10. A. scandens. R. 
Climbing ; spikes from three to six, digitste; calyx ddan: 
late; male corols one-valved, and awnless; hermaphrodite 
ones ieith a one-valved corol and an awn. 
‘Grows commonly in hedges, and on that account scandent; 
appears and flowers during the rains, stevie, 
Culms long, ramous, creeping, or inabings over bushes, 
&c. emitting long roots from the joints; smooth and deeply 
grooved on one side; flower-bearing extremities erect, and — 
about one or two feet long; joints woolly. . Leaves some- 
times a little hairy on the upper side, mouths of the sheaths 
membrane-stipuled, and hairy. | Spikes generally from three 
to six, terminal, short pedicelled, sub-panicled flowers in 
approximate pairs ; one hermaphrodite, and sessile, the other 
_ male, and pedicelled. In both the calyx-is of two lane 
somewhat hairy valyes. In the hermaphrodite one the.corol 
is of one valve, and the place of the second valve is. occupied 
by a long twisted arista, ‘In the male one it is two-valved. 
Obs. It is a coarse grass, Cattle are not fond of it, 
HL A, pertusus. Linn, sp, pl. ed. Willd. iv. 922. — | 7 oe 
Near the root creeping. Spikes from four to eighties 
edic neg exterior’ valye of the. ie awned, hermaphro- 
