Jiidropogon. thiandria digynia. 277 



Sect. Uh. Panicles fuliaceoifs. 



32. A. piimilus. R. 



Erect ; twelve inches high ; panicles couiposed of numerous 

 axillary, and terminal, conjugate spikes, on long, jointed, sheathed 

 pedimcles. Calj/x of the sessile hermaphrodite, Hower awned, 

 cuspidate. 



A native of Coromandel, and one of the smallest of the genus. 



Culms ramous, erect, smooth. — Leaves rather small, particularly 

 the iloral ones, which are liltle tnore than large sheaths. — Panicle 

 coniposed of numerous, axillary, and terminal, conjugate, hirsute, 

 secund spikes, elevated on slender, jointed peduncles, embraced 

 by many delicate, chaffy bractes at the base, and by a sheath from 

 the joint upwards. — F/ouers in pairs on the joints of the hairy rachis, 

 one sessile and hermaphrodite, the other peduncled and male. — Ca- 

 hjx two-valved, that of the hermaphrodite dower cuspidate — Ca- 

 rol one-valvetl, an arista occupies the place of a second iu the her- 

 maphrodite flower. V 



33. A. parri/lorus. R. 



Ascending. Leaves linear. Panicle leafy, thin ; spikelels soli- 

 tarv, with proper, jointed, leafy spathes ; both tlowers awned, the 

 pedicelled one a rudiment only. 



A very beautiful most delicate species, a native of pasture land 

 up amongst the Circar mounlains and also of the mountains them- 

 selves. 



Cidins very branchy, ascending, filiform, about a foot, or a foot 

 and a half \\v^\.— Leaves numerous, small, linear, rather obtuse, 

 mouths of the sheaths stipulcd.—S/ji/.es axillary, minute, peduncled, 

 generally one or two, rarely three. J{f/t7izs jointed and waved as in 

 the other species, but here it is smooth, except at the insertions of 

 the flowers.— Pf(//o/c/e5 most slender, jointed at the middle, from 

 whence a small spathe ascends, which generally hides a part of ita 

 spike. — rioxcers in pairs; one hermaphrodite and sessile, the other 

 merely the rudiment of a floret on a long clubbed pedicel. 



