264 triandria digynia. Andropogon. 



composed of simple, alternate, filiform, short-pedicelled, erect, 

 patent branches ; neuter florets two-valved and pedicelled. 



A large, leafy, sub-erect species; a native of the moun- 

 tainous parts of the Northern Circars. 



I am not possessed of any other description of Swartz's A. 

 saccharoides than the specific character, as it stands in Will- 

 denow's edition of the species, which agrees with my plant; 

 I therefore conclude they are they same. 



20. Ischtemum. Linn. ftp. pi. cd. Willd. iv. 921. 

 Spikes from six to eight, fascicled, peduncled ; rachis hairy. 



Flowers lanceolate, hermaphrodite, sessile and awned; male 

 pedicelled and awnless ; calyces acute, exterior valve hairy. 

 A native of Coroinandel. It is a stout erect species, with 

 a branch from the axill of each of the superior smooth short 

 leaves; it has much the appearance and habit of liladhii, and 

 pertusus ; from the former it differs most conspicuously in the 

 valves of the calyces being acute, whereas in Bladhii they 

 are broad and rounded ; and from pertusus in the want of the 

 pit on the back of the exterior valve of the hermaphrodite 

 flowers. 



21. A. punctatus. R. 



Erect, simple. Leaves large, long, and numerous. Panicle 

 of numerous, simple, second ramifications. Exterior valves 

 of the calyces of both hermaphrodite and neuter flowers pit- 

 ted. 



This is a mountain jjrass. 



Culms from two to four feet high, without branches, below 

 bent towards the earth for half a foot, often erect, entirely 

 surrounded with the sheaths of the leaves; not piped, but re- 

 plete with spongy pith. Leaves numerous, large, with some 

 long white hairs scattered over them near the base ; mouths 

 of the sheaths stipuled, bearded, and woolly. Panicle erect, 

 oblong, from four to five inches high, composed of many, 

 erect, short-peduncled, filiform, secund, spiked racemes; ra- 



