Andropogon. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, 273 
minute sharp bristles, pointing forward, general length from 
_two to three feet, and from one to two inches broad near the 
base, where broadest. Sheaths smooth, except at the mouths, 
and there bearded on both sides. Panicle very large, erect, 
with long, slender, smooth, elegantly drooping, verticelled, 
compound and decompound ramification, Flowers in pairs, 
as in the genus; one hermaphrodite, and sessile; the other 
male, and pedicelled. Calya two-valved, one-flowered, oval, 
rather obtuse, and hairy, but without the characteristic wool- 
ly, or hairy involucre round the base of the flowers. Corol 
in both sorts three-valved, membranaceous, and fringed, 
sometimes the hermaphrodite flower is awned. Nectary two, 
fleshy, broad, truncated, fringed scales, 
Obs. In habit this beautiful species comes near my Andro- 
pogon tumbackianus, from the Cape of Good pina but is 
more elegant in the panicle, 
SECT. 1V. Panicles foliaceous. 
32. A, pumilus. R. 
Erect, twelve inches high; panicles composed of numer- 
ous axillary, and terminal, conjugate spikes, on long, joint- 
ed sheathed peduncles. Calyx of the sessile hermaphrodite, 
flower awned, cuspidate. 
A native of Coromandel, and one of the smallest of i 
genus, 
_ Culms ramous, s erect, smooth, Leaves rather small, particu- 
larly the floral ones, which are little more than large sheaths, 
Panicle composed of numerous, axillary, and terminal, con- 
jugate, hirsute,.secund spikes, elevated on slender, jointed 
peduncles, embraced by many delicate, chaffy | bractes at the 
base, and by a sheath from the joint upwards, lo in 
nteinints hairy rachis, one sessile and herma- 
led and male. Calyx two-valved, 
agian censpidates Corol one- 
ite flower. _ 
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