Andropogon. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, 3 261 
Spikes fascicled on their own proper pedicels; exterior valve- 
lets of both calyces pitted ; inner glume of the’ hermaphro- 
dite corolawned. 
A native of mountains, and their vicinity. 
Culms straight, ramous, about two feet high, and as thick 
as a sparrow’s quill, round and smooth; joints bearded. 
Leaves slender, a little hairy, and ciliate near. the base; 
mouths of the sheaths stipuled, Spikes from three to six, 
long-pedicelled, and collected on a common peduncle, one 
of which is terminal, and one or two more from the next one 
or two exterior axills; very slender, perfectly erect, and about 
an inch long. Rachis as in the former species. Pedicels 
most fine, straight, two inches long, jointed near the base, 
where a fine slender spathe begins. Flowers in pairs; one 
hermaphrodite and sessile, the other smalland pedicelled. 
HERMAPHRODITE FLowers sessile. Calyx as in the 
genus, except that the exterior large valvelet has a large pit 
in it, as in A, pertusus, Corol, imer valve ae es in 
a long twisted awn. 
Mate Flower pediccHclt Calyx elisa di pitted 
as in the hacconppiatiey flower. Corol two-valved, awnless, 
* a 16. Resdeapolgettiliyoo: R ° 
Straight; spikes numerous, axillary, simple, each ddesihaee 
on a long jointed, sheathed peduncle. Flowers, inferior pairs 
male and awnless ; one of the superior ones is female and 
amply awned, the rats male and awnless. 
- A native of the Peninsula of India, The flowers me 
resemble those of A. Keeps a but the habit of the; sigramee to 
: PO or gsr hes Sewer tini-thirde of the ibaa all male, 
, and. awnless, and, as usual, one of them sessile, the other 
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