TRIANDRU DiGYNiAi Anclropogorit 



13. A. Jschamum. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. WiUd. iv. 92!. 



Spikes from six to eight, fascicled, peduncled ; rachishmiy. FloW" 

 ers lanceolate ; hermaphrodite, sessile, and awned ; male pedicelled 

 and awnless ; calyces acute ; exterior valve hairy, 



A native of Coromandel, a stout, erect species^ with a branch 

 from tfie axil of each of the superior smooth short leaves, having 

 much the appearance and habit of Bladfiii and pertusus ; from the 

 former it differs most conspicuously in the valves of the calyces 

 being acute, whereas in Bladhii they are broad and rounded ; and 

 from pertusus in the want of the pit on the back of the exterior 

 valve of the hermapjirodite flower. 



Sect. Qd. With long peduncled, axilla)'}/ spikes, 



14. A. monandrus. R. 



Erect, filiform, with erect, filiform, branches at the top. Spikes 

 solitary flowers hermaphrodite, and female ; exterior valvelet of the 

 calyces and corols of both awned, hermaphrodite, monandrous. 



A native of mountainous countries. 



Culms many, ramous, filiform, straight ; about a foot high, round 

 and smooth — Leaves small, base and mouths of the sheaths hairy. — 

 Spikes generally solitary, terminal, and from the exterior axils, long- 

 peduncled, straight, about an inch long — Peduncles, filiform, joiaU 

 €d, and spathed at the middle. Rachis jointed, winding, hairy .-^ 

 Flozvers numerous, iiiibricated in pairs ; one, the hermaphrodite, ses.- 

 aile and the other, female, pedicelled. 



Hermaphrodite Flowers sessile. Cali/x two-valved, near^ 

 ly equal, exterior valvelet ending in a long slender arista, the inner one 

 ■with its apex obtuse, and bearded. — Carol, exterior valve ending in a 

 long slender awn. — Stamen one.— Stj/les two, &c. as in the genus. 



Female Flowers pedicelled. Calijx and carol as in the her- 

 iT.aphrodite ones ; only the inner valve of the calyx is pointed^ and 

 liearded. 



