262 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Andropogon. 
short-pedicelled ; swperior pairs, the sessile one of each of 
these is a slender female, amply bearded at the base with 
much dark brown hair, which is the more conspicuous as 
every other part of the spike is smooth; the other short-pedi- 
celled, male, and awnless, like the inferior pairs. 3 
Mate Fiowers, Calyx two-valved: Corol two-valveds 
Stamina three. 
Femate Fiowers. Calyx of one linear, striated, hard, 
dark brown valve, Corol one-valved, with a very long, twist- 
ed awn on the other side, Stamina none. Styles two. 
SECT. Ill. Panicles naked, and terminal. 
17. A. aciculatus. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. iv. 906. ; 
Creeping. Leaves shorter than their sheaths. Panicle linear- 
oblong, erect ; ramifications three-flowered, one hermaphro- 
dite, sessile, acs two male, peduncled. 
Gramen aciculatum, Rumph. Amb. 6. t. 5. fi 1. good. 
Raphis trivalvis. Lour. Cochin Ch, 676. 
‘Kadira-pullu. Rheed. Mal, 12. p. 97. t. 43. 
~ Sans. Shunkhinee, Chora-pooshpee, Keshinee. 
Beng. Chora-kanta. ‘ 
Grows on barren, moist, pasture ground ; its seeds are ex- 
ceedingly troublesome to those who walk where it grows, 
as they stick in the stockings, and Seige aa 
ehingscc: et 
/dbasintinitjuiciaieclitighion: sont i feet high, jaiee 
and smooth, Leaves small, waved, with the margins prickle-_ 
ciliate. Panicle terminal, erect, linear-oblong, from two to — 
three inches long. Ramifications (or rather peduncles) ver 
ticelled, simple, three-flowered, nearly erect; apex armed 
with short stiff hairs. Flowers, one sessile, hermaphrodite, 
and two pedicelled male ones on each peduncle, 
_ Hermarnropite Frower. Calyx two-valyed, nearly — 
equal; the inner one ends in a short arista, and has the keel _ 
scabrous ; ‘base:involvet in brown short hair. Corel two- : 
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