Jschcemum. triandria digynia. 521 



2. H. cUiatus. R. 



Erect, hairv, panicle linear, hnsute. Glumes papillose, ciliate, two- 

 flowered, bolli flowers sessile, one hermaphrodite and awned, the 

 other male and awnless. 



A native of Coromandel. 



Whole plant about a foot high, erect. The culnis'w'iih bearded 

 joints.— jLeares rather large, hirsutely papillose, as are also their 

 sheaths. — Panicles linear, shaggy with the numerous hairs of the ca- 

 li/ces. — Cali/x two-valved, two-flowered; valves nearly equal, con- 

 siderably longer than the flower, backs covered with little warts, from 

 each of which arises a very conspicuous hair ; apices cuspidate, and 

 recurvate. — Corol two-valved in both. — £.r^enor floret ratlier larger, 

 male, or male hermaphrodite, and awnless; f«/zgr hermaphrodite and 

 awned. — Stamina three. — Styles two in the hermaphrodite, in the 

 male hermaphrodite the rudiments of two, but no germ. 



ISCHJEMVM. Schreb. Gen. N. 1569. 

 Polygamous. Calyx two-valved, two-flowered. Carols two-valved. 



1. I. ariitatum. Linn. Sp. PL ed. Willd. iv. 939. 



Annual. Leaves sword-shaped, ciliate and hairy, with coloured 

 margins. Spikes paired, secund. All the calyces two-flowered ; 

 valves striated; exterior of the sessile flower with a bifid membrana- 

 ceous border round the anterior margin ; an awned hermaphrodite 

 floret in" each flower. 



A native of new ly formed pasture land, in various parts of India, 

 appearing about the close of the rains. It is a scarce grass, and does 

 not anpear to be flt for cattle. 



Culms at the base resting on the ground and there rooting, ramous ; 

 erect portions from one to two feet long, slender, with w^oolly joints — 

 Leaves length of the spikes, ensiform, broadest at the base .'.nd there 

 cordate, hairy, ciliate, with hispid, coloured margins. — Spikes two, 

 terminal; secund, from one to two inches long. Rachis flexuose Joinl- 



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