Andropogon. triandria digynia. 265 



c/tis and flowers exactly as in A. fascicularis ; except that 

 here the outer valve of the calyx of both flowers has a pit in 

 the middle. The corol of the hermaphrodite flower wants 

 the inner valve ; in its place is a pretty long twisted awn. 



22. A. fascicularis. It. 



Erect, ramous. Panicle composed of fascicled, simple, or 

 divided branches. Flowers paired ; hermaphrodite ones awn- 

 ed ; neuter ones awnless and without a corol. 



Teling. Kwnda-jen. 



A native of mountains. 



Culms erect, jointed, smooth, rather thicker than a crow's 

 quill, from three to five feet high, sulcated, mostly naked, 

 rush-like, not piped. Leaves from three to four, small, re- 

 mote, retrorso-scabrous ; mouths of the sheath hairy; from 

 each sheath springs a short panicle-bearing branch. Panicle 

 terminal, six inches long, erect, fascicled ; Jascicles remote, 

 alternate, composed of several erect, filiform, often ramous, 

 secund spikes, or spiked-racemes. Flowers in pairs ; the 

 hermaphrodite ones sessile; the neuter peduncled. Common 

 rachis round, smooth; partial one undulated, jointed, com- 

 pressed, woolly. 



Hermaphrodite Flower. Calyx, glume one-flowered, 

 two-valved, smooth, awnless, base surrounded with wool. 

 Corol, exterior valve the length of the calyx ; inner short, bi- 

 fid, with a long twisted awn from the fissure. Neuter floret 

 small, its pedicel woolly, length of the hermaphrodite flower. 

 Calyx two-valved. Corol none. 



23. A. muricatus. Retz. Obs. iii. N. 95. and v. 20. 



Erect in all situations. Leaves sub-bifarious, long, nar- 

 row, and rigid. Panicle verticelled; ramifications simple, 

 expanding, hermaphrodite and male flowers awnless, with 

 muricate calyces, and corols of three valves. 



Sans. Veer?/n?/ng, Veer?<t?/r?/ng. 



Beng. Bena, the name of the plant, and Khuskhus the root. 



