264 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Andropogon... 
composed of simple, alternate, filiform, short-pedicelled, erect, 
patent branches ; neuter florets two-valved and pedicelled. 
A large, leafy, sub-erect species; a native of the moun- 
tainous parts of the Northern Cirears. | 
lam not possessed of any other description of Swartz’s fe 
saccharoides than the specific character, as it stands in Will- 
denow’s edition of the species, which agrees with my plant; 
1 therefore conclude they are they same. 
20. Ischemum. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. iv. 921, eek 
Spikes from six to eight, fascicled, peduncled ; rachis hairy, 
Flowers lanceolate, hermaphrodite, sessile and awned ;. male 
pedicelled and awnless ; calyces acute, exterior valve hairy. | 
A native of Coromandel. _ It is a stout erect species, with 
a branch from the axill of each of the superior smooth short _ 
leaves; it has much the appearance and habit of Bladhii, and 
pertusus ; from the former it differs most conspicuously in the 
valves of the calyces being acute, whereas in Bladhiithey ~ 
are broad and rounded; and from pertusus in the want of the. 
pit on the back of the exterior valve of the hermaphrodite — 
flowers. 
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21. A, punctatus, R. 
Erect, simple. Leaves large, Jong, and numerous. Desinle at 
) of numerous, simple, second ramifications, Exterior valves 
of the gat of both Rennes and neniar graces (pit. 
This is is ‘3 Mountain grasa. ai seman} 
_ Culms from two to four feet high, ‘Ssithont beantca, diel 
bent towards the earth for half a foot, often erect, entirely” 
surrounded with the sheaths of the leaves; not piped, but re-- 
plete with spongy pith. Leaves numerous, large, with some 
long white hairs scattered over them near the base; omaha 
of ‘the sheaths stipuled, bearded, and woolly. Pasig erect, — 
or ne from four to five inches hah ceengeds of ay, oe 
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