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276 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Andropogon. 
A native of the skirts of the northern mountains of India. 
Dr. Blane found it between the river Raptee and the moun- 
tains, and Dr. Boyd about Hurdwar ; it is therefore probably 
a native of a very extensive tract along the skirts of that 
range of mountains which bounds the plains of Bengal, Ba- 
har, Oude, &c. Flowermg time the rainy season, 
It grows in large tufts, each tuft composed of a pumber of 
plants adhering together by their roots, 
Root perennial, the principal parts thereof are thicker than 
a crow’s quill, and marked with circular cicatrices, from 
these issue many small, firm, aromatic fibres. Culms erect, 
generally simple ; from three to six feet high, smooth in every. 
part, not hollow, but filled with a light spongy substance. 
Leaves, those near the root longer than the joints of the culm, 
margins hispid when the finger is drawn backwards over 
them, otherwise smooth in every part. Panicle axillary, and 
terminal, or the whole may be reckoned a long linear, erect, 
or drooping, intercepted panicle, composed of numerous, (ma- 
ny of them proliferous,) fascicles of slender, pedicelled, thin 
spikes of five joints; each fascicle is furnished with its own — 
proper boat-shaped spathe, besides many chaffy bractes 
within it among the insertions of the pedicels; and a proper 
spathe to each paix of spikes. Flowers on the body of the ra- 
chis paired ; one awned, , hermaphrodite, and sessile ; the other 
awnless, male, and pedicelled, the terminal “ising are three, 
one hermaphrodite, sessile, and awned ; the other ie male, 
pedicelled, and awnless. eect 
HERMAPHRODITE, Calyx one-flowered, Fo teaben 
girt with wool, as is also the rachis, and proper pedicels. 
Corol two-valved, and fringed ; inner valvelets two-parted, — 
with a short arista in the fissure, Nectary two, minute, leaf- 
lets embracing the germ laterally, Stamens, pistil, and seed, 
as in the genus. o- 
Maxe, Calyz as in the hermaphrodite, Corol. prom 
7. and stamens as in the hermaphindiit no Pt | ip 
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