268 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Andropogon, 
on the upper side near the base only ; mouths of the sheaths 
bearded. Panicle terminal, conical, from four. to eight 
inches Jong, composed of many, ramous, sub-verticelled 
spikes, or rather spiked-racemes; rachis winding, jointed, a 
little hairy. lowers as usual, in pairs, an tales oe 
one sessile ; and a neuter one pedicelled, 
Fisk manga FLowers. Calyx.two-valved, en 
terior one a little hairy. Corol one-valved, a twisted awn 
two or three times.the length of the corol supplies the place 
of the other. Veuter flowers like the hermaphrodite ones, 
but without arista, 
26. A. bicolor, R. Rast 
Erect. Panicle diffuse, with useing saeabaip wl 
super-decompound. branches ; hewiophodite calyces. with 
smooth backs, and fringed nsbpiciay corol three-valved, and 
awned ; calyx of the neuter flower hairy, with a two-valved 
corol. 
Holcus bicolor. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. iv. 929, ; 
Beng. Kala-deodhan, ee ted 
» Hind. Kala-jooar. nef 
~ Teling. Muka-janoo, and Muka-janoolar the grain, - 
L have only found it in a cultivated state. ' 
— Culms generally single, straight, round, rp 
to ten feet high, and as thick as the finger or thumb, mostly 
covered by the sheath of the leaves. Leaves from one to 
mouths of the sheaths bearded. Panicle erect, oyal, dense, 
composed: of many ramous, expanding, sub-verticelled 
branches, the various ramifications angular and very. hispid 
when the finger is drawn backwards over them, their flower- _ 
bearing extremities hairy. Flowers paired, and, as) in wee 
_genus, the sessile one is ee and the pedicelled 
“one neuter, iy Hage | 
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