252 TRiANDRiA DiGYNiA. Anthisliria. 



Culms erect, about two feet high, in our rich soil of Bengal, more 

 slender than a crow quill, smooth, and often coloured. — heaves few, 

 ensiform ; broadest at the ba /e and there more ciliate, particularly 

 the small floral leaves. — Sheaths much shorter than the joints, smooth, 

 and carinated on the back. — Ligiila short and chaffy. — Panicles 

 sometimes drooping, though in general erect and composed of a 

 few, rather remote, axillary branches.- — Involucres longer than the 

 liowersj smooth, cuspidate. 



Hermaphrodite Flowers bearded at the base. — Cali/x two 

 valved ; valves hard, obtuse, and somewhat hairy, by age changing 

 from straw colour to dark brown.— Co;oZ one small, pellucid valve, 

 and a very strong, long, thick, brown, hairy awn on the opposite side. 

 ■ — Stigma three. — Sl^/es two, with ocluaceous plumose stigmas, 

 \vhich become brown by age. — ?veci!flm/, scales large, with creuate, 

 truncate apices. 



Accessary Florets six, all neuter. — Calyces two-valved, tho?( 

 of the sessile four, papillose, ciliate near the apex ; ihose of the upper 

 pedicelled two, smaller and smooth.— Coi/o/s none, or of one, small, 

 hyaline valve. — Stamiim none. 



2. A. polijslachya. R- 



Culms numerous, sub-erect. Leaves taper from their sub-ciliate 

 base. Accessary Jiorets three-valved, male, exterior valves of the 

 sessile four, papillose, ciliate near the apex. 



A native of Bengal, and with the other species which are natives 

 of the same country, appears at ihe close of the rains, in October 

 and November. 



Culms many, annual, erect, or ascending, smooth, from one to 



two feet high— Lc«rc'.s about the length of the joints of the culm, 



taper from the base, and there sometimes sub-ciliate. — Panicles 



slender, erect, or nearly so, composed of a iew alternate, axillary 



. branches. — Involucres longer than the flowers, smooth, sub-aristate. 



Hermaphrodite Flowers bearded at the base.— Ca/yxtwo- 

 valved, both hard, a little hairy awn on the opposite side.— CoroZone- 

 valved with a long, strong, hairy awn on the opposite side. 



