260 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Andropogon, 
A native of Coromandel, a stout, erect species, with a 
branch from the axill of each of the superior smooth short 
leaves, having much the appearance and habit of Bladhii 
and perivsus ; from the former it differs most conspicuously 
in the valves of the calyces being acute, whereas in Bladhii 
they are broad and rounded ; and from pertusus in the want 
of the pit on the back of the exterior valve of the —— 
dite flower. 
: we SECT. Il. With long Bauheids axillary pie - 
14, A, monandrus, R. 
Erect, filiform, with erect, filiform, branches at, the a, 
Spikes solitary, flowers hermaphrodite, and female ; exterior 
valvelet of the calyces and corols of both awned ; ; hermaphro- 
dite, monandrous, . 
A native ot mountainous countries. | . ” 
¢ Culms many, ramous, filiform, straight; about a foot high, 
round and smooth, Leaves small, base and mouths of the 
sheaths hairy. Spikes generally solitary, terminal, and from 
the exterior axills, long-peduncled, straight, about an inch 
long. Peduneles filiform, jointed, and spathed at the mid- 
dle. Rachis jointed, winding, hairy. Flowers numerous, — 
imbricated in pairs; one, the hermaphrodite, parle. and the 
other, female, pedicelled. 
; _ Hermarnropite FLowERS gle Chae tet 
neat y equal, exterior valvelet ending in a long slender 
arista, ‘the inner one with its apex obtuse, and bearded, 
Corol, exterior valve ending in a Jong slender awn, Stamen 
one. Styles two, &e. as in the genus, f 
Fema.e Frowers pedicelled. Calyx and corol as ine 
hermaphrodite ones; only the inner valve of the bani is 
— and beardad: 
TAs inestoissith : 
_ Straight ramous at the top base ofthe leaves ciate, 
me. * 
