57t TRrANDUiA BiGTrNiA. Andropogon. 



one a little hairy. — Carol one-valved, a twisted awn two or three 

 times the length of the corol supplies the place of the other. — Neu-' 

 ter flowers like the hermaphrodite ones, but without arista. 



26. A. bkolor. R. 



Erect. Pank/e diffuse, with expanding, decompound and super- 

 decompound branches ; hermaphrodile calyces with smooth backs, 

 and fringed niarguis ; corol three-valved, and awned, calyx of the 

 neuter Jiowcr hairy with a two-valved corol. 



Holcus bicolor. Lhui. Sp. PI. ed. IViUd. iv. 929. 



Beno-. Kala-deodhan. 



Hind. Kalrt-jooar. 



Te/iiig. Mifka-janoo, and INIakajanoolar the grain. 



I have only found it in a cultivated state. 



Culms generally single, straight, round, smooth, from four to ten 

 feet high, and as thick as the finger or thumb, mostly covered by the 

 sheath of the leaves. — Lea res from one to three feet long, and from 

 one to three inches broad, smooth ; mouths of the sheaths bearded. 

 — Pankle erect, oval, dense, composed of many ramous, expanding, 

 sub-verticelled branches, the various ramifications angular and very 

 hispid when the finger is drawn backwards over them, their flow- 

 er-bearing extremities hairy. — F/oaers paired, and, as in the genus, 

 the sessile one is hermaphrodite and the pedicelled one neuter. 



Hermaphrodite Flowers sessile. Calyx, talvelets nearly 

 equal, with the back smooth, and as they ripen becoming of a shining 

 black, with many white hairs round the margins (ciliated.) — Corol 

 three-valved^ fringed, the second or solitary valve ending in a short 

 twisted arista. — Seeds oval, brown, smooth, free, with an impression 

 on the back near the base. 



Neuter Flowers pedicelled. Calyx striated, hairy. — Corol 

 two-valved, awnless. — Stamens none. 



Obs. This and the following .species A. Sorghum seem to me to 

 possess more of the character of Andropogon than of Holcus. 1 have 

 therefore changed their places from the latter to the former. 



