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6. A. cymbaria. R. 



Erect, ramous. Leaves many times longer than their 

 sheaths. Involucres smooth. Accessary florets male, with 

 a two-valved, ciliate calyx, and a one-valved, awnless corol. 



Andropogon cymbarius. Linn. mant. 303. sp. pl.ed. Willd. 

 iv. 909. 



Tel'mg. Pedda Ghella. 



This is a large species. I have generally found it amongst 

 bushes on mountains. 



Culms many, erect, from three to six feet high, very ra- 

 mous, smooth, solid, ligneous, joints smooth. Leaves large in 

 proportion to the size of the plant. Panicles linear, leafy, 

 erect, composed of innumerable bracted fascicles like those 

 of the last described. Bractes boat-shaped, ending in a 

 very long, subulate point, sometimes coloured, and in luxu- 

 riant plants fringed with many long rigid hairs. Flowers 

 seven in each fascicle or umbellet as in the last, and dispos- 

 ed exactly in the same manner, only here the four male 

 flowers that surround the base of the common pedicel are 

 sessile. 



Hermaphrodite Flowers. Calyx two-valved. Valve- 

 lets nearly equal, obtuse, smooth, of a firm texture. Corol 

 one-valved, the place of the second is occupied by a long 

 twisted awn. Stamens three, &c. as in the genus. 



Male Flowers. Calyx two-valved, the exterior valve 

 fringed with many strong hairs about the apex. Corol one- 

 valved. Stamens three. 



7. A. amndhiacea. R. 



Perennial, straight, from six to twelve feet high; leaves 

 from four to eight feet long; accessary Jlorets male, with both 

 calyces and corols two-valved ; the exterior valvelet of the 

 former shaggy. 



A native of Bengal. Flowering time the beginning of the 

 cool season. 



Root perennial. Culms straight, jointed, glaucous, between 



