Andropogon, _ TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, | 265 
chis and flowers exactly asin A. Jascicularis ; except that 
here the outer valve of the calyx of both flowers has a pit | in - 
the middle. The corol of the hermaphrodite flower wants 
the inner valve ; in its place is a pretty long twisted awn. 
22. A. fascicularis. R, | 
Erect, ramous. Panicle composed of fascicled, simple, or 
divided branches. Flowers paired ; hermaphrodite ones awn- 
ed ; neuter ones awnless and without a corol. 
Teling, Kunda-jeri. 
A native of mountains, 
Culms erect, jointed, smooth, rather thicker than a crow’s 
quill, from ‘thrée to five feet high, sulcated, mostly naked, 
rush-like, not piped. Leaves from three to four, small, re- 
mote, retrorso-scabrous ; mouths of the sheath hairy; from 
each sheath springs a ahiire panicle-bearing branch, Panicle 
terminal, six inches long, erect, fascicled ; fascicles remote, 
alienate; composed of several erect, filiform, often ramous, — 
secund spikes, or spiked-racemes. Flowers in pairs; the 
hermaphrodite ones sessile; the neuter peduncled. Common 
rachis round, smooth; partial one undulated, jointed, com- 
pressed, woolly. | 
_ HermMapuropitEe FLower. Caly yt, glume one-flowered, 
two-valved, smooth, awnless, base surrounded with wool, 
Corol, exterior valve the length of the calyx ; inner short, bi-- 
fid, with a long twisted awn from the fissure. Neuter floret 
small, its pedicel woolly, length of the hermaphrodite flower, 
— frevalved, Corol none, ~ipnatey 
93. hitehdmanak Rete. Obs. iti. N. 95, and v. 
. Erect-in all situations. Leaves sail ‘iov 
row}: neg is 7 Pantale ve ti cel : m 
ianety anil the name of the last; and Khuskhus the root. 
