26t IRIANDRIA DiGYNiA. Androfiogoft. 



I am not possessed of any other description of Swartz's A. sac- 

 charoides than the specific character, as it stands in Willdenow's 

 edition of the species, which agrees with my plant ; I iheiefore con- 

 clude they are the same. 



£0. A. Tschamiim. Linn. Sp. PL ed. IVilld. iv. 921. 



Spikes frpm six to eight, fascicled, peduncled ; racAis hairy, FIqW" 

 ers lanceolate, hermaphrodite, sessile and awned ; male pedicelled 

 and awnless ; calyces acute, exterior valve hairy. 



A native of Coromandel. It is a stout erect species, with a branch 

 from the axil of each of the superior smooth short leaves ; it has 

 muqh the appearance and habit of Blad/iii, and pertusus ; from 

 the former it differs most conspicuously in the valves of the caly-i 

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

 and from pertusus in the want of the pit on the back of the exte-^ 

 rior valve of the hermaphrodite flowers, 



21. A. punctatus. R- 



Erect, sijnple. Leaves large, long, and numerous. Panicle of 

 numerous, s-imple, secund ramifications. Exterior valves of the 

 calyces of both hermaphrodite and neuter flowers pitted. 



This is a mountain grass. 



Culms from two to four feet high, without branches, below bent 

 towards the earth for half a foot, often erect, entirely surrounded 

 with the sheaths of the leaves ; not piped, but replete with spongy 

 pith. — Leaves numerous, large, with some long white iiairs scatteied 

 over them near the base ; mouths of the sheaths stipuled, bearded, 

 and yvooWy.— Panicle erect, oblong, from four to five inches high, 

 composed of many, erect, short-peduncled, filiform, secund, spiked 

 racemes ; rachis and flowers exactly as in A. fascicularis ; except 

 that here the outer valve of the calyx of both flowers has a pit in the 

 middle.— The corol of the hermaphrodite flower wants the inner 

 Vjilye, in its place is a pretty long twisted awn. 



