274 triandria digynia. Jjudropogon. 



39. A. parvijlorvs. R. 



Ascending-. Leaven linear. Panicle leafy, thin; spikelels 

 solitary, with proper, jointed, leafy snathes; both flower* 

 awned, »!»<■ pedicelled one a rudiment only. 



A very beautiful most delicate species, a native of pasture 

 land up. amongst the Circar mountains and also of the moun- 

 tains themselves. 



Culms very branchy, ascending-, filiform, about a foot, or a 

 foot and a half high. Leaves numerous, small, linear, rather 

 obtuse, mouths of the sheaths stipuled. Spikes axillary, mi- 

 nute, peduncled, generally one or two, rarely three. Rachis 

 jointed and waved as in the other species, but here it is 

 smooth, except at the insertions of the flowers. Peduncles 

 most slender, jointed at the middle, from whence a small 

 spathe ascends, which generally hides a part of its spike. 

 Flowers in pairs; one hermaphrodite and sessile, the other 

 merely the rudiment of a floret on a long- clubbed pedicel. 



34. A. Schamanthus. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. iv. 915. 



Perennial, erect. Panicle sub-secund, linear, leafy ; spike- 

 lets thereof paired, on a common, spathed pedicel, with pro- 

 per pedicels and spathes ; flowers of both sorts awnless, the 

 male corol one-valved. 



Sans. Malatrarakang, Bhoostrmwng*. 



Seng. G?Midhrt-ben«. 



Ramacciam. Rheed. Hort. Mai. 12. p. 137. i. 72. 



Schoenanthum amboinicum. Rumpli. Amb.b. p. 181. 1. 72. 



Schoenanthus, or Juncus odoratus of the Materia Medica. 

 On the coast I have only found this elegant valuable species 

 in a state of cultivation, few gardens being without it ; I have 

 but twice found it in flower and both times during the rainy 

 season. 



Root perennial, young* propaga ting-shoots issue from the 

 axills of the leaves that surround a short, sub-lio-neous leaf- 

 bearing- culm. Culms from five to seven feet high, erect, sim- 



