268 TRIANDRIA DIGYN1A. Andropofjon. 



on the upper side near the base only ; mouths of the sheaths 

 bearded. Panicle terminal, conical, from four to eight 

 inches long, composed of many, ramous, sub-verticelled 

 spikes, or rather spiked-racemes; rachis winding, jointed, a 

 little hairy. Flowers as usual, in pairs, an hermaphrodite 

 one sessile ; and a neuter one pedicelled. 



Hermaphrodite Flowers. Calyx two-valved, the ex- 

 terior one a little hairy. Corol one-valved, a twisted awn 

 two or three times the length of the corol supplies the place 

 of the other. Neuter flowers like the hermaphrodite ones, 

 but without arista. 



26. A. bicolor. R. 



Erect. Panicle diffuse, with expanding, decompound and 

 super-decompound branches ; hermaphrodite calyces with 

 smooth backs, and fringed margins; corol three-valved, and 

 awned; calyx of the neuter flower hairy, with a two-valved 

 corol. 



Holcus bicolor. Linn, sp.pl. eel. Willd. iv. 929. 



Beng. Kala-deodhan. 



Hind. Kala-jooar. 



Telinrj. M?/ka-janoo, and M?/ka-janoolar the grain. 



I have only found it in a cultivated state. 



Culms generally single, straight, round, smooth, from four 

 to ten feet high, and as thick as the finger or thumb, mostly 

 covered by the sheath of the leaves. Leaves from one to 

 three feet long, and from one to three inches broad, smooth ; 

 mouths of the sheaths bearded. Panicle erect, oval, dense, 

 composed of many ramous, expanding, sub-verticelled 

 branches, the various ramifications angular and very hispid 

 when the finger is drawn backwards over them, their flower- 

 bearing- extremities hairy. Flowers paired, and, as in the 

 genus, the sessile one is hermaphrodite and the pedicelled 

 one neuter. 



Hermaphrodite Flowers sessile. Calyx; valvelets near- 

 ly equal, with the back smooth, and as they ripen becoming- 



