t76 TRiANDRiA BiGYNiA. Audropogon. 



lets equal, hairy. — Corol three-valved, membranaceous, margins 

 fringed with hairs ; the second one retuse, with a pretty long twist- 

 ed arista ; the inner one very small. — NectarT/ as in the last species. 

 Male Flowers pedicelled. Calj/x as in the hermaphrodite, — 

 Corol two-valved. 



31. A. miliacens. R. 



Erect, from six to ten feet high. Panicle ample, lax ; ramifica- 

 tions verticelled, expanding, or drooping. Corol three-valved, in 

 both hermaphrodite and male flowers. 



The seeds of this most beautiful stately grass were sent me from 

 Lucknow, by the late Gen. Claude Martin, under the name of hill 

 grass. It being a native of the mountains north of Oude- It blos- 

 soms in this garden during the latter part of the rains. 



Culms erect, ramous, smooth, the largest of them nearly as thick 

 as the little tingei-, general height (in the rich soil of the Botanic 

 Garden) about ten feet. — heaves ensiform-lanceolate, soft, and 

 smooth, except the margins, which are armed with minute sharp 

 bristles, pointing forward, general length from two to three feet, and 

 from one to two inches broad near the base, where broadest — 

 Shealhs smooth, except at the mouths, and there bearded on both 

 sides.— Panicle very large, erect, with long, slender, smooth, ele- 

 gantly drooping, verticelled, compound, and decompound ramifica- 

 tion. — Flowers in pairs, as in the genus-; one hermaphrodite, and 

 sessile ; the other male, and pedicelled. — Calyx two-valved, one- 

 flowered, oval, rather obtuse, and hairy, but without the character- 

 istic woolly, or hairy involucre round the base of the flowers. — Co- 

 rol'm both sorts thiee-valved, membranaceous, and fringed, some- 

 times the hermaphrodite flower is awned. — Nectary two, fleshy, 

 broad, truncat<>H, fringed sciles. 



Ohs. In habit this beautiful species comes near my Andropogon 

 tumbucl{ia.MS,kom (he Cape of Good Hope, but is more elegant in 

 the panicle. 



