Andropogon. ■ triandbia diqtnia. 969 



-22. A.fascicularis. R. 



Erect, 1 amous. Pamcle composed of fascicled, simple, or divided 

 brandies. Flozcers paired; hermaphrodite ones awned ; neuter ones 

 awnless and without a corol. 



l^eling. K?/n(ia-jeri. 



A native of mountains. 



Cuhn^ erect, jointed, smooth, rather thicker than a crow's quill, 

 from tliree to five feet high, sulcated, mostly naked, rush-like, not pip- 

 ed. — heaves from three to four, small, remote, retrGrso-?;cabrous; 

 mouths of the sheath hairy ; from each sheath spiings a short panicle- 

 bearing branch. — Panicle terminal, six inches long, erect, fascicled ; 

 fascicles remote, alternate, composed of several erect, tiUform, often 

 ramous, secund spikes, or spiked-rattmes. — Flozcers in pairs ; the 

 hermaphrodite ones sessile ; the neuter peduncled. Common raclis 

 round, smooth ; partial one undulated, jointed, compressed, woolly. 



Hermaphrodite Flower. Cali/x, glume one-flowered, two- 

 valved, smooth, awnless, base surrounded with wool. — Corol, exm 

 terior valve the length of the calyx ; inner short, bi6d, with a long 

 twisted aw'n from the fissure. Neuter Jloret small, its pedicel wool- 

 ly, length of the hermaphrodite tiower. — Calyx tvvo-valved. — Co- 

 rol none. 



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 23. A. muricatus. Retz. Obs. iii. N. 95. and v. 20. 



Erect in all situations. Leaves sub-bifarious, long, narrow, and 

 rigid. Panicle verticelled, ramifications simple, expanding, herma- 

 phrodite and male flowers awnless, with muricate calyces, and co- 

 rols of three valves. 



Sans. -^TM, VeerwnMng, ^:nft*» Veer«tMrMng. 



Bentr. Bena, the name of the plant, and Khuskhus the root. ^ 



Tarn. Woetiwear. 



Virana. Asiat- Res. vol. iv. p. 306. 



It is very common in every part of the Coast and Bengal where it 

 meets with a low, moist, rich soil, especially on the banks of wat«r 

 eourses, &,c. 



