274 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Andropogon, 
93. A. parviflorus, R i 
Ascending. Leaves linear. Panicle eakys thin; cable : 
solitary, with proper, jointed, leafy spathes; both flowers 
awned, the pedicelled one a rudiment only. 
A very beautiful most delicate species, a native of pe 
land up amongst the Circar mountains and also of the moun- — 
tains themselves. $ that 
Culms very branchy, ascending Alien iis a foot, ora 
foot anda halfhigh. Leaves numerous, stuall, linear, rather 
- obtuse, mouths of the sheaths stipuled. Spikes axillary, mi- 
nute, peduncled; generally one or two, rarely three. Rachis 
jointed and waved as in the other species, but here it is 
smooth, except at the insertions of the flowers. Peduncles 
most slender, jointed at the middle, from whence a small 
spathe ascends, which generally hides a part. of its spike. — 
Flowers in pairs; one hermaphrodite and sessile, the other 
merely the rudiment of a floret on a long clubbed pedicel. _ 
34, A. Schenanthus. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. iv. 915. ~~ 
Perennial, erect. Panicle sub-secund, linear, leafy ; spike- 
lets thereof paired, on a common, spathed pedicel, with pro~ 
per pedicels and spathes ; flowers of both sorts neniewys = 
male corol one-valved. adsl 
Sans, Malatrinuking, ee ' 
Beng. Gundha-bena, : 
Rameccion. Rheed. Hort. Mal, 12,. p 137. ty: Rp 
- Schenanthum amboinicum. Aomey Amb. ne pase 2. 
Je 2. Bice eer to Domeerrang'y alpen}; 
Schcenanthus, or of oy aden of ‘he Materia Mediogt 
On the coast I have only found this elegant valuable species: 
__ inastate of cultivation, few gardens being without it; Lhave 
but twice found it in flower and both times during tern 
Root perennial, young propagating-shoots issue: deci, the 
axills of the leaves that surround a short, sub-ligneous | ee a 
a a Colne from fyot to seven feet bakes Te o% E : j 
