;ggQl rtRtANDRIA BlGYKIAr lAndrOpOgOJll 



of two veiy unequal hyaline valves.— %/es two ; stigmas purple, \iU 

 lous.— Seed oblong, smooth. 



5. A. conjugatus. R. 



Straight, very ramous, filiform. Spikes conjugate, both flowers 

 hermaphrodite, and both awned ; exterior valves of the calyces iaa- 

 ceolar, and copiously ciliate. 



A native of Bengal, and the smallest of the genus 1 have yet met 

 with. Flowers during the cool season. 



Root a few very sleader, brown hbics. — Culms in tufts, and very 

 ramoiis, ti!if..rm, erect, smuoth, even the joints ; from six to twelve 

 inches high, — heaves minute, a few hairs near tlie base, — Spikes al- 

 ways exactly paired as in most species ot hchccmum, erect, flat on 

 the inside, where they touch each other. Rachis winding, and cloth- 

 ed ^with long, silver-coloured hairs, length about an inch tlozO' 



er&m pairs, one sessile, one pedicelleci, both hermaphrodite, and both 

 awned. — Calyces two-valved, one flowered ; exterior valve in both 

 lanceolate, with the margins copiously ciliate.— Co ;o/ two-valved; 

 Z'ahes transparent, and brown, that (the inner) which gives support 

 to the arista, bitid. — Stamens three. Styles two. Stigmas long and 

 plumose. 



6. A.fJiformis. R. 



Filiform, annual, erect. Spikes paired. Flowers all sessile, soli- 

 tary ; hermaphrodite, diandrous, with a corol of one valve, which ends 

 in a long awn. 



This is the most delicate species I have yet met with ; appears 

 in small tufts, on pasture land near Calcutta, in the months of Octo- 

 ber, November, and December. 



Culms numerous, filiform, smooth, erect, from nine to twelve inches 

 high. — Leaves smoW, slender, and mooth. — Spikes two, terminal, fili- 

 form, scarcely two inches long. — Flozcers all hermaphrodite, solitary, 

 sessile, no pedicelled flower being found, no pubescence about the 

 calyx^ 110 rachis. --Ca/y.T two-valved, oiic-flowercd. — Corol of cue 



