Andropogon. triandria digynia. 253 



SECT. I. With terminal Spikes. 



1. A. serratus. Rets. Obs. v. 21. Linn, sp.pl. ed. Willd. 

 iv. 903. 



Spikes solitary, or paired, imbricated with -sessile, herma- 

 phrodite, awned flowers on the outside, and two rows of awn- 

 less pedicelled male ones on the inside. 



Sans. Venee, Khwra, Gwree, Uguree, Khnragui'ee, Guragu- 

 ree, Dev?(tara, Jeemoota. 



Bent/. Detara, or Dettn. 



A native of pasture ground. Flowers during the cold sea- 

 son. 



Culms at and near the base creeping, branchy, with only 

 about a foot of their flower-bearing extremities erect, and as 

 thick as a sparrow's quill, round, smooth, joints slightly vil- 

 lous. Leaves small, inside a little hairy, mouth of the sheaths 

 hairy. Spike terminal, generally solitary, though sometimes 

 there are two or even three; when single, long-peduncled, 

 when two, each has a very short, erect pedicel ; the spike or 

 spikes are about an inch and a half long. JFlowers in pairs, 

 numerous, imbricated, on one side are two rows of sessile, her- 

 maprodite ones, and in the other two rows of pedicelled ones ; 

 male rachis waved, jointed and hairy. Hermaphrodite flow- 

 ers sessile. Calyces two-valved, the exterior one broad, com- 

 pressed, striated, a little hairy, rounded at the apex ; mar- 

 gins fringed with hairs ; involucre smooth, glossy, keeled, 

 pointed. Corol of the hermaphrodite flower one-valved ; the 

 arista which is pretty long and twisted, occupies the place of 

 a second ; that of the male two-valved, the inner one slender 

 and bifid. 



Obs. Cattle will eat it, but not greedily. 



2. A. contortus. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. iv. .904. 



Monoicous. Spikes solitary ; inferior flowers male or neu- 

 ter and awnless ; superior flowers one female and awned, the 

 other male and awnless. 



