272 TRIANDRIA DIGYNTA, - Andropogon. 
Grows in hedges, on banks of water courses, and on ap 
that has lately been in cultivation. 
Root somewhat woody, perennial. Culm near the base 
bending to the earth, and there rooting at the joints, the rest 
” erect; the whole isofa firm ligneous texture, inwardly spongy, 
jointed, round and smooth ; below naked, above covered by 
‘the sheaths of the leaves. In hedges on the banks of the ri- 
vers, &c, where the soil is good, it is often from ten to fifteen 
feet high; while on a barren dry soil, not more than one or 
two. Leaves long, smooth, except the margins, which are’ 
scabrous. Panicle very large, oval, often bowing, rather thin, 
composed of sub-verticelled, ramous, spreading branches, 
with woolly insertions; the branchlets of the branches are 
composed of four or six pedicelled, spiked racemes. Rachis 
of the spikes jointed, &c. Flowers paired, &e. as in the _— 
species, 
HERMAPHRODITE FLowers sessile. Calyx SS tactiedl 
valvelets equal, hairy, . Corol three-valved, membranaceous, 
margins fringed with hairs; the second one retuse, with a 
pretty long twisted arista; the inner one very small. Nee- 
tary as in the last species. Mate Frowers pedicelled. 
Calyx as in the =a Corol two-valved. 
31. A, milaceus. R. Hherh | 
Erect, from six to ten feet hig ‘Panicle ample, lax ; : ra- 
: mifications verticelled, expanding, or drooping. — the: 
valved, in both hermaphrodite and male flowers, 
~The seeds of this most beautiful stately grass were 7 Wieade | 
from Lucknow, by the late Gen. Claude Martin, under the 
name of hill grass, It being a native of the mountains north 
of Oude. It blossoms in this ‘garden during the latter = of : 
the rains, 
Culms erect, ramous, smooth, the largest of then wines as 
thick as the little finger, general height (in the rich soil of the 
anic garden) about ten feet, Leaves ensiform- ancet 
sof, and smooth, except the margins, which are a ee a 
