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29. A. saccharatus. R. 



Erect. Panicles verticelled, with ramifications drooping. 

 Calyx hairy ; corols awnless ; hermaphrodite three-valved, 

 neuter one-vavled. 



Holcus saccharatus. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. iv. 930. 



Hind, and Beng. Deo-dhan. 



Is much cultivated over various parts of India during- the 

 rainy and cold seasons upon land which is too high for rice. 



Root ramous. Culms erect, round, jointed, sometimes ra- 

 mous, lower joints radicating from eight to twelve feet high, 

 three or four inches in circumference near the base. Leaves 

 bifarious, sheathing, sword-shaped, margins hispid, the rest 

 smooth, with a white nerve on the upper side, three feet long, 

 and three or four inches broad. Sheath as long as the pani- 

 cle is when young, afterwards the whole is completely bent 

 down from the weight of the seed. Flowers paired, one her- 

 maphrodite, sessile; the other neuter, and pedicelled. 



Hermaphrodite Flowers sessile. Calyx one-flowered, 

 two-valved, both valves hairy. Corol three-valved, the soli- 

 tary valve daggered ; dagger, shorter than the calyx. Seed 

 oval, white. 



Neuter Flowers pedicelled. Calyx two-valved, hairy. 

 Corol one-valved, awnless. Stamens none. 



Obs. The only circumstance that renders me uncertain 

 whether this is Holcus saccharatus of Linnaeus is the total 

 want of the arista in the hermaphrodite flowers ; in other re- 

 spects they agree. 



30. A. laxus. Linn, sp.pl.ed. Willd. iv. 907. 



Erect, from one to fifteen feet high. Panicle ovate, lax ; 

 ramifications sub-verticelled, compound and decompound. 

 Calyx hairy; corols fringed, those of the hermaphrodite 

 three-valved, and awned. 



Beng. Knla-woocha. 



Teling. Gadd?-janoo, 



