es solitary; lower sessile spikelets very
unlike the pedicelled or upper spikelets which
are cylindric.

Margin of glume 1 of the pedicelled
spikelet unequally winged; ligule
is a broad truncate membrane. 10. A. contortus.

Racemes two, both sessile, or one sessile and
the other pedicelled on a peduncle which is
more or less sheathed by a proper spathe,
divaricate or deflexed.

Leaf base broad and cordate 11. A. Schoenanthus.

_N.B._--This genus is now split into several separate genera,
each subgenus being raised to the rank of a genus. But in this
book the nomenclature adopted in Hooker's Flora of British
India is followed.

[Illustration: Fig. 148.--Andropogon foveolatus.]

=Andropogon foveolatus, _Del._=

The stems are slender at first, slightly decumbent at the base and then
erect, covered at base with silkily villous sheaths, branches freely
above before flowering, the lower portion of stems alone being leafy.

The _leaf-sheath_ is somewhat scaberulous, partly green and partly
purplish, always shorter than the internode. The _ligule_ is short,
truncate, hyaline and ciliate. _Nodes_ are tumid and purplish with a
ring of hairs.

The _leaf-blade_ is linear, narrow, sometimes even filiform, acuminate
slightly cordate at the base, scabrid throughout with a few scattered
long bulbous-based hairs near the base to a distance of less than 1/2
inch about it and varies from 2 to 4 inches in length.

[Illustration: Fig. 149.--Andropogon foveolatus.

1 and 2. Sessile and pedicelled spikelets; 3, 4, 5 and 6. the first,
second, third and the fourth glume, respectively, of the sessile
spikelet; 7. lodicules, anthers and ovary; 8, 9 and 10. the two glumes
and the palea of the pedicelled spikelet.]

The _spikes_ are solitary, 1 to 1-3/4 inch long exserted far above the
small spathiform leaf-sheaths, peduncles are capillary and scaberulous,
pedicels and joints are somewhat flattened, and have along both the
narrow margins long, white, ascending hairs; callus is short with a ring
of short white hairs.

There are two kinds of _spikelets,_ sessile and pedicelled, and both are
oblong-lanceolate and equal. The _sessile spikelet_ consists of _four_
_glumes_. The _first glume_ is lanceolate, flat and smooth, keels
scabrid with usually a deep dorsal pit, 4-nerved. The _second glume_ is
lanceolate, acute, as long as the first, 3-nerve