it'G^ TKIANCRIA DIGYNIA. Andivpogon. 



the exterior, ending in a prettj? long arista, margins amply fringed with 

 long fulvous hairs. — Corol in both flowers four-valved ; the exterior 

 one on the inside bifid^ and awned. 



9. A. lanceolatus. R. 



Leates lanceolate, \viih cordate stem-clasping base, bristle-ciliate. 

 Spikes tern, peduncled. Sesaile or hermaphrodite tlower awned, 

 with the margin of tlie exterior valve of the calyx acutely pectinate, 

 serrate. * 



A native of Coromandel, and very much like Fanicnm setigerum. 



Culms scandent, or creeping, emitting roots from the joints, seems 



perennial. — Leaves lanceolate, base cordate, and stem-clasping, apex 



acute, smooth on both sides, but the edges from the middle down, 



bristle-ciliate. S/»eAes terminal, two, three, or four, peduncled. Ea- 



chis and pedicel of the male tlower somewhat woolly. — Ca/i/ces lan- 

 ceolate ; exterior take, and chiefly that of the hermaphrodite sessile 

 flower with the margins minutely and acutely pectinate-serrate. — 

 Co;o/ in both two-valved, with an arista in live hermaphrodite cue. 



10. A. scandens. R. 



Chmbing, spikes from three to six, digitate ; calj/r lanceolate, 

 male corols one-valved, and awnless, hermaphrodite ones with an 

 one-valved corol and an awn. 



Grows commonly in hedges, and on that account scandent ; ap- 

 pears and flowers duri^ig the rains. 



0///ns long, ramous, creeping, or cUmbing over bushes, Sec. emit- 

 / ting long roots from the joints ; smooth and deeply grooved on one 

 side ; flower-bearing extremities erect, and about one or two feet 

 long; joints woolly. — Leaves sometimes a little haiiy on the upper 

 side, mouths of the sheaths membrane-stipuled, and haivy.— Spikes 

 generally from three to ah, terminal, short pedicelled, sub-panicled 

 flowers in approximate pairs ; one hermnphrodite, and sessde, the 

 other male, and pedicclied. In both the calyx is of two lanceolate, 

 nomewhat hairy valves. In the hermaphrodite one the corol is of 



