Ischemum. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, . 319. 
Whole plant about a foot high, erect. The eudms with 
bearded joints. Leaves rather large, hirsutely papillose,as 
- are also their sheaths, . Panicles linear, shaggy with the nu-) 
merous hairs of the ealyces, . Calyx two-valved, two flower- 
ed ; valves nearly equal, considerably longer than the flower, 
backs covered with little warts, from each of which arises a 
very conspicuous hair ; apices cuspidate, and recurvate,. Co-. 
rol two-valved in both. Exterior floret rather larger, male or 
male hermaphrodite, and awnless; immer hermaphrodite and 
awned. Stamina three. , Styles two in the hermaphrodite, in 
the male hermaphrodite the rudiments of two, but no germ. 
ISCHEMUM. Schreb. gen. N. 1569. 
Polygamous. Calyx two-valved, two-flowered, ConolaSiess 
valved. 
1. Laristatum. Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd. iv. 939. : 
Annual, Leaves sword-shaped, ciliate and hairy, with 
coloured margins, Spikes paired, secund. All the calyces 
two-flowered ; valves striated; exterior of the sessile flower 
with a bifid. Jasganvadasbouis hors round the anterior mar- 
gin; an awned hermaphrodite floret in each flower. 
A native of newly formed pasture land, in various parts of — 
India, appearing about the close of the rains. It isa searce 
grass, and does not appear to be fit for cattle. 
_ Culms at the base resting on the ground and there rooting, 
ramous; erect portions from one to two feet long, slender, | 
with woolly joints, Leaves length of the spikes, ensiform, 
broadest at the base and there cordate phairy, ciliate, with 
pid, coloured ‘margins, — Spikes two, terminal, secund, | m 
one to two inches long. Rachis flexuose, jointed, three-sided, 
with the. eagles nary: hairy, Flowers in pairs, one sessile, the 
edicelled. Pedicel three-sided, and ciliate. Calyx of 
the sessile flowers two-valved, two-flowered ; one floret her- . . 
maphrodite, the other male.. Exterior vinlias striated, with: 
