114 The Natural Hiftory of ‘Jamaica. 
feveral very fmall, long, comprefsd Spikes, by fmall Stalks or Strings, after 
the manner of Gramen tremulum, only the Perioli are {tronger, fo as not te 
quake. Each of them are made up of very many finall Glame, Scales, or 
Chaff fer in a double row, being fometimes white, and {ometimes purple. 
J found it in the inland parts of the Hland. 
By the Figure of that Graf mentioned by Dr. Plukemct Alm. p.176. and 
called Gramen amoris India orientalis, panicula fparfa, Ge. figured Phyt. Tab. 
190. Fig. 3. compared with the Defcription and Figure of this, ‘tis plain 
this, and that mentioned by him are two Plants contrary to what he con- 
jectures in his Mantiff.p. 95. | 
XXX. Gramini tremulo affine, paniculatum elegans minimum. Cat. p. 34. Tab. 
a1. Fig. 2. An Gramen paniculatum ex oris Malabaricis panicula delicatiore 
Plukenet. Phyt. Tab. 300. Fig.2u? Gramen Famaicenfe noftrati pratenfi Hole pa- 
nicula compactiore. Bjufd. Alm. p..176. Gramini pratenft minori fimile Curaffa- 
vicum panicula {peciofa. D. Sherard. ib? Gramen paniculis elegantifimis minimum. 
Tonrnef. Inft.p. xi? : 
This has a great many white thready Roods, and many very {mall, 
narrow, pale green, alittle rough Leaves, a Calamus or Stalk about three or 
four Inches long, having fo many Joints, and at every Joint.a Leaf, inclofing 
the Stalk. Near the top the Stalk is divided into feveral Foot-Stalks ftand- 
ing {parfe on every hand, and fuftaining feveral {mall, white, chafhte Spikes, 
made up of very fimall, white, fcaly Chaff, comprefs’d, lying on one ano- 
ther in a double.row, very elegantly, after the manner of Gramen tremulum, 
but having its Petfol? foftrong as not to quake. td ie 
‘Tt grows very plentifully in the Savanna, by the Town of St. Fago de la 
Veea. Dyan ot HOE | 
This only feems lefler than the 7/ampallu, 7. M. but differs from the Gra- 
men amoris alterum paniculis ftrigoferibus magifque Sparfis. Raii Cat. pl. exter. 
not being the fame with it, as Dr. Plukemet conjectures in his Mantiffz, 
P: 95: 
XXXE. Gramen miliacenm, [ylvaticum, maximum, femine albe. Cat. p.34. Tab. 
M1. Fig, 2. 
This has a Culmus or Stalk, feveral Feet long, flender and weak, not able 
to fupport its felf withour being fuftained by leaning on neighbouring 
Trees and Shrubs, amongft which it grows. It is hollow, jointed, and 
branched at the Joints, every Joint having a Leaf about three Inches long, 
and three quarters of an Inch broad in the middle where broadeft being ftri- 
ated, and of a yellowifh green colour. At the top of the Branches is a 
Panicle, made up of feveral Branches which have crooked Peticli, on the 
ends of which is a white, fhining, roundifh Seed, on one fide flat, ‘on the 
other roundith as big as a large Pins Head, lying in a purplifh naked Husk, 
opening like the other Millets. | 
It grows in moft of the Woods of this Ifland, and thofe of the Cu- 
vibes. | 
By the Defcription and Figure of this, “tis plainly different from the Gra- 
men Miliacenm latiori folio Madera{patanum, Plukenct. Alm. p.176- Phyt. Tab. 
189. Fig. 4. which is contrary to the conjecture of that Author in his Mantiff 
ae aes 
XXXII. Gramen miliaceam majus, panicula minus (para, locuftis minimis. Cat. 
2°34. Tab. 72. Fig. | 
The Panicle of this Grafs was about fix Inches long, made up of feveral 
Spikes, which lay fo clofe to the Cu/mus, and were, efpecially at top, fo fhort 
that 
