272 triandria digynia. Andropogon. 



Grows in hedges, on banks of water courses, and on land 

 that has lately been in cultivation. 



Root somewhat woody, perennial. Culm near the base 

 bending- to the earth, and there rooting at the joints, the rest 

 erect; the whole isof a firm ligneous texture, inwardly spongy, 

 jointed, round and smooth ; below nuked, above covered by 

 the sheaths of the leaves. In hedges on the banks of the ri- 

 vers, &c. where the soil is good, it is often from ten to fifteen 

 feet high; while on a barren dry soil, not more than one or 

 two. Leaves long, smooth, except the margins, which are 

 scabrous. Panicle very large, oval, often bowing, rather thin, 

 composed of sub-verticelled, ramous, spreading branches, 

 with woolly insertions ; the branchlets of the branches are 

 composed of four or six pedicelled, spiked racemes. Rack/is 

 of the spikes jointed, &c. Flowers paired, &c. as in the other 

 species. 



Hermaphrodite Flowers sessile. Calyx two-valved ; 

 valvelets equal, hairy. Corol three valved, membranaceous, 

 margins fringed with hairs ; the second one retuse, with a 

 pretty long twisted arista ; the inner one very small. Nec- 

 tary as in the last species. Male Flowers pedicelled. 

 Calyx as in the hermaphrodite. Corol two-valved. 



31. A. miliaceus. R. 



Erect, from six to ten feet high. Panicle ample, lax ; ra- 

 mifications verticelled, expanding, or drooping. Corol three- 

 valved, in both hermaphrodite and male flowers. 



The seeds of this most beautiful stately grass were sent me 

 from Lucknow, by the late Gen. Claude Martin, under the 

 name of hill grass. It being a native of the mountains north 

 of Oude. It blossoms in this garden during the latter part of 

 the rains. 



Culms erect, ramous, smooth, the largest of them nearly as 

 thick as the little finger, general height (in the rich soil of the 

 Botanic garden) about ten feet. Leaves eiwform-lanceolate, 

 soft, and smooth, except the margins, which are armed with 



