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reduced to abruptly acuminated glumes : florets of the lower spike- 

 let bipaleaceous, lower male, upper hermaplirodite : glumes two 

 muticous, lower lanceolate, 2-cleft at the apex, somewhat channelled, 

 base dilated into a blister or short tube, to which is attached the 

 upper one, keeled: palese shorter, lower hermaphrodite, 2-cleft, 

 awned or muticous : stigmas plumose. 



(1) A. AEisTATA. f Linn. J 



Ident Eoxb. 1. c. p. 324. 



8yn. Andropogon glaucus, iBefe. — A. communis, Am. 



Spec. Chae. Culm rooting at the base, ascending, branched, 

 2-feet : nodes and sheaths smooth : leaves lanceolate, acute at the 

 base, revolute at the margin, attenuated into a short petiole : 

 panicle contracted, involucre of the rays ovate : involucel lanceo- 

 late, 2-toothed : hermaphrodite flower cUiated at the back, awned. 



Common in hedges. Bengal. Peninsula. 



(2) A. SENICTJIATA. (Roxh,) 



Ident. Roxb. 1. c. p. 327. 



Spec. Chae. Culms creeping, soandent, slender : nodes tumid : 

 leaves linear-lanceolate, attenuated at both ends : Ugula torn : 

 branchlets of the terminal panicle numerous, slender.: spathes cus- 

 pidate, fascicles 3-flowered, one flower composed of three sessile 

 hermaphrodite ones and a male, remaining 2 pediceUed, one very 

 small abortive, the other polygamous, all muticous. 



Banks of the Ganges. 



GENUS LIII. IMPERATA. 

 Dlandrla Dlg^ynia. Sex: Syst: 



Beriv. Named after Eerrante Imperati, a Neapolitan botanist of 

 the 16th century. 



Gen. Chae. Panicle contracted, spike-shaped, cylindric: ppike- 

 lets twin, one sessile, the other pediceUed, aU fertile, jointed at the 

 base, 2^flowered: glumes 2, nearly equal, muticous, outwardly 

 beset with very long silky hairs : lower, flower 1-vaIved, upper 

 hermaphrodite: valves 2, minute, muticous: stamens 2 : styles 2, 

 elongated : stigmas plumose. 



