Andropogon. triandria digynta. 269 



of a shining black, with many white hairs round the margins 

 (ciliated.) Corol three-valved, fringed, the second or solita- 

 ry valve ending in a short twisted arista. Seeds oval, brown, 

 smooth, free, with an impression on the back near the base. 

 Neuter Flowers pedicelled. Calyx striated, hairy. 



Corol two-valved, awnless. Stamens none. 

 Obs. This and the following species A. Sorghum seem to 



me to possess more of the character of Andropogon than of 

 Holcus. I have therefore changed their places from the 

 latter to the former. 



27. A. Sorghum. R. 



Erect. Panicle contracted, dense ; hermaphrodite calyces 

 hairy. Corols three-valved, awned. 



Holcus Sorghum. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. iv. 929. 



Beng. and Hind. Jooar. 



Teling. Telia, or Konda (white) janoo the name of the 

 plant, and Tclla-janoolar the grain. 



Obs. This also I have only found in a cultivated state. It 

 differs from the former. 



1st. In having the panicle contracted, very dense, and 

 less regularly verticelled. 



2d. In having the glumes of the calyx of a whitish green 

 colour and very woolly. 



3d. In having three valves to the neuter flowers. 



There are two other sorts, which I take to be only varieties 

 of the last ; their names in Telinga are Pacha (green) Janoo 

 and Yerra (red) Janoo. 



These last two with their varieties are much cultivated on 

 a rather elevated, good soil. Seed time October; and har- 

 vest time, January. The produce in good soil is often up- 

 wards of an hundred-fold. The grain is much used for food. 

 It is probable that through the whole of Southern Asia as 

 many of the inhabitants live on the various kinds of dry or 

 small grain, as upon rice, and they are reckoned fully as 

 wholesome as that is. 



