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bidentate ; hermaphrodite flower ciUated on the back and awned. 

 Common in hedges, climbing and supporting itself on other plants. 

 Grows also in the Isle of France and South Africa. Syn. Andropo- 

 gon glaucus, Retz. Obs. v, 20. 



28. SACCHARUM, Linn. 



1. S Spontaneum. — Culm, according to soil and situation, 

 1 foot to 12 feet high, smooth, full of pith ; leaves narrow-convolute, 

 much-acuminated to a very fine point, 2 feet long, 2 to 3 Unes 

 broad; panicle elongated, close or spreading; branches semiverticel- 

 late and spiked, joints and pedicels clothed with long, white, silky 

 hairs ; glumes acuminated, half the length of the hairs at the base, 

 the upper one finely fringed ; spikelets 1 -flowered, twin ; one sessile, 

 neuter, the other pedicelled and hermaphrodite ; neuter spikelets 

 without paleee ; palea of hermaphrodite flower fringed, mutic. At 

 Doraus, scarcely 2 feet high ; on the banks of the Deccan rivers 

 6 feet. In Sind plentiful, where it is called " Kahn." Makes 

 excellent thatch, and the culms are made into native pens. We 

 know of no other native species, 



29. ANTHISTIRIA, Linn. 



L A Cymbaria, Roxb. Fl. Ind. p 251. — Cespitose; culms 

 many, erect, 3 to 6 feet high, much-branched, smooth and solid ; 

 joints smooth ; leaves lanceolate-elongated, smooth, 1 foot long, 

 3 lines broad ; panicle thyrsoid, linear, leafy, erect, composed of 

 innumerable bracted fascicles ; bracts boat-shaped, ending in a long 

 subulate point, sometimes coloured, and generally fringed with many 

 long rigid hairs ; flowers 7 in each fascicle, 4 male flowers sur- 

 rounding the base of the common pedicel, sessile. Syn. Andropo- 

 gon cymbarius, Linn. Mant. 303 ; Cymbopogon elegans, Spr. 



2. A CiLiATA, Linn. Diss. nov. Gram. Gen. 35. — Annual ; 

 culms erect, about 2 feet high, slender, smooth, and often coloured ; 

 leaves few, ensifarm-, very narrow, broadest at the base, and there 

 more cihated, particularly the small floral leaves ; panicles some- 

 times drooping, though in general erect and composed of a few 

 rather remote axillary branches ; involucres longer than the flowers, 

 smooth cuspidate ; hermaphrodite florets bearded at the base ; 

 glumes hard, obtuse, a little hairy, changing by age from straw 

 colour to dark-brown ; accessory florets 6, all neuter. This and 

 the preceding are generally found together in the same field ; they 

 form the greater part of the best specimens of Hay in the country. 

 This latter differs scarcely, if at all, from the famous Kangaroo 

 Grass of New Holland. It grows also in South Africa. 



