



258 triandria digynia. Androporfon. 



A native of Coromandel, and very much like Panicum 

 setigerum. 



Culms scandent, or creeping, emitting roots from the joints, 

 seems perennial. Leaves lanceolate, base cordate, and stem- 

 clasping, apex acute, smooth on both sides, but the edges, 

 from the middle down, bristle-ciliate. Spikes terminal, two, 

 three, or four, peduncled. Rachis and pedicel of the male 

 flower somewhat woolly. Calyces lanceolate ; exterior valve, 

 and chiefly that of the hermaphrodite sessile flower with the 

 margins minutely and acutely pectinate-serrate. Corol in 

 both two-valved, with* an arista in the hermaphrodite one. 



10. A. scandens. R. 



Climbing ; spikes from three to six, digitate ; calyx lanceo- 

 late ; male corols one-valved, and awnless ; hermaphrodite 

 ones with a one-valved corol and an awn. 



Grows commonly in hedges, and on that account scandent; 

 appears and flowers during the rains. 



Culms long, ramous, creeping, or climbing over bushes, 

 &c. emitting long roots from the joints; smooth and deeply 

 grooved on one side ; flower-bearing extremities erect, and 

 about one or two feet long ; joints woolly. Leaves some- 

 times a little hairy on the upper side, mouths of the sheaths 

 membrane-stipuled, and hairy. Spikes generally from three 

 to six, terminal, short pedicelled, sub-panicled flowers in 

 approximate pairs ; one hermaphrodite, and sessile, the other 

 male, and pedicelled. In both the calyx is of two lanceolate, 

 somewhat hairy valves. In the hermaphrodite one the corol 

 is of one valve, and the place of the second valve is occupied 

 by a long twisted arista. In the male one it is two-valved. 

 Obs. It is a coarse grass. Cattle are not fond of it. 



11. A. pertusus. Linn. sp. pi ed. Willd. iv. 922. 



Near the root creeping. Spikes from four to eight, digitate, 

 pedicelled, exterior valve of the sessile, awned, hermaphro- 



