Andropogon. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 277 
Obs. This species comes remarkably near to A. Schoenanthus 
both in habit and taste. 
For the virtues of the roots of this plant, see Dr. Blane’s 
account thereof in the second part of the SOth volume of the 
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London ; 
also Asiatic Researches, iv. p. 109. The virtues seem to re- 
side almost entirely in the larger parts of the root, marked 
with annular cicatrices, the taste is agreeably aromatic, with 
some degree of bitterness. 
36. A. Martini. R. 
Perennial, erect. Panicles linear, sub-secund ; spikelets 
paired, three-jointed, with common spathes only ; hermaphro- 
dite corols of one valve, and an awn; male awnless. 
A native of the high lands of Balla-ghat. General Martin 
collected the seeds while there with the army, during the last 
war with Tippoo Sultan, and has reared abundance of it at 
Lucknow. 
It is also now plentiful in the Company’s Botanic garden, 
raised from seed sent from thence by that gentleman, whose 
name I have applied as a specific one for this elegant plant. 
Root perennial, with long wiry fibres. Culms erect, from 
three to six feet high, often ramous, smooth, filled with a 
spongy pith. Leaves very long, tapering to a very fine point, 
smooth in every part and of a soft delicate texture.  Sheaths 
shorter than the joints on full grown plants, with a membra- 
naceous stipulary process at the mouth. Panicles as in A, 
Twarancusa ; spikelets paired, but with only three joints. 
Flowers also paired, &c. as in the former species, only there 
the Wheels pair on the most sessile utes vil 
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