17 



18 



131. 



POMMEREULLA CORNUCOPIA 



Linn . suppl. 105. 



Spike compound, one-rank'd: Spikelets two-rank'd; each has an in- 

 volucre of two lanceolate, acute, membranous valves: within 

 these two valves is a short, club'd, downy pedicel, supporting 

 the spikelet of four flowers with their common calyx ; it is 

 joined to the involucre by an articulation, and drops off most 

 readily, particularly when dry, leaving the involucre attached 

 to the rachis. 



Germ inverse-hearted. Styles two, with feathery, recurved stigmas. 



Grows under bushes, on dry uncultivated grounds. 



133. 



AMMANNIA OCTANDRA 



Linn, suppl. 127. 



Root fibrous. 



Stem upright, four-sided, smooth, from one to three feet high. 



Branches numerous, cross-armed, stem-like. 



Leaves opposite, sessile, linear-arrow'd, smooth, margins a little 



revolute ; 



dab 



broad 



Peduncle axillary, very short, from two to three-flower'd 

 Flowers small, of a beautiful bright red colour. 

 Bractes minute. 



Filaments as long as the corol. Anthers incumbent. 



132. 



ROTTBOELLIA SETACEA. 



Nardus indica. Linn, suppl. 105. 



Culms many, erect, ramous, filiform, smooth, from two to six inches 



high. 

 Leaves, inside a little hairy, in size proportioned to that of the plants. 

 Spike terminal, solitary, awl'd, one-rank'd, about an inch, or an inch 



and a half long. Rachis excavated on one side, but not jointed. 

 Flowers all hermaphrodite, imbricate on the excavated side of the 



r 



rachis. 



Ca/jyx one-flower'd, two-valved: Valvelets equal, membrane-margin'd. 

 Corol two-valved, membranous, hairy. 

 Stamens three. 



Styles two. 



Grows on old walls. 



ROTTBOELLIA THOMiEA. 



Linn. spec, plant, edit. Willdenow, I. p. 46 4. 

 Rottboellia pilosa. Linn. spec, plant, edit. Willdenow, I. p. 465 

 Nardus Thomasa. Linn, suppl. 105. 



Culms minute, erect, compress'd, about an inch high without the 



spike, and two within it. 

 Leaves two-faced, numerous. 



Spike terminal, solitary, erect, awl'd, two-rank'd, compress'd. Rachis 



waved, excavated on the sides, not articulated, [a is a portion 

 magnified, with the flowers of one side in their places.) 



Flowers all hermaphrodite, disposed alternately in the excavations 



of the rachis (b). 



Calyx one-flower'd, two-valved: exterior valvelet rigid, linear; 



interior boat-shape, and less rigid. 



memb 



Stamen three. 

 Styles two/' 



and cold seasons. 



y 



134. 



GARDENIA LATIFOLIA. 



Ait. hort. Kew. 1 . p. 2 9 4 . Linn. spec, plant, edit. Willdenow, I. p. 1226 



Caaringua of the Telingas. 



■ 



A small tree, with suberect Branches, covered with a smooth ash- 



colour'd Bark. 



Leaves either opposite or three-fold, (in a good soil always three-fold) 



nearly sessile, inserted into the stipules, obovate, entire, a little 

 bubbled ; above of a deep shining green, below whitish ; veins 

 many and large, running parallel, from six to twelve inches 

 long ; in their axils hollow glands, with hairy margins. 



Stipules annular, within the leaves, splitting irregularly when old. 



Flowers one, two, three, or four, at the extremities of the branch- 

 lets; very large, and fragrant; when first open in the morn- 

 ing, white ; but gradually grow yellow towards night. 



Peduncle short, one-flower'd. 



Calyx small, irregularly divided. 



Corol: tube long, cylindric ; throat smooth ; border large, spread- 



^ 



ing, from seven to eleven-cleft: divisions obliquely oblong, 



l 



the lengtl 

 Filaments none. 



b 



umb 

 at be 



immersed in the tube, the other half above its mouth. 

 Berry, size of a pullet's egg ; colour at all times a cineraceous green- 

 ish-yellow; a little scabrous; generally one-cell'd, or the par- 



Seeds 



titions are so trifling as hardly to be observed, 

 very numerous. 



Is a native of barren, rocky hills, both in the Circars and Car- 

 natic. Like the other species, it flowers about the beginning of the 

 hot season. 



This species is deserving of notice. Its large glossy green leaves, 

 as well as the size and beauty of its flowers, rendering it very or- 



namen 



tal. 



Grows with the last on old walls. 



* Description by Dr. Koenigw 



Culmi foliosi, geniculis duobus, raro pluribus, vix pollicares. 



Folia alterna, patentia, angusta, pilis raris longis ciliata : membrana oris vaginarum erecta, 

 lacero-ciliata. 



Spica subulata, compresso-plana. Rachis albicans, utrinque nervis duobus prominulis, 

 flexuosis, viridibus. 



* 



VOL. II. 



Flores marginibus racheos immersi. 



Calyx bivalvis : valvula exterior lanceolata, acuta, glabra, striata, marginata, concava, vi- 



ridis; interior ovata, obtusa, alba, exteriori multo brevior. 

 Corolla bivalvis, basi pilis raris flore parum brevioribus albis vestita : valvube ovatae, acuti- 



usculae, albae, subaequales. 

 Stamina duo vel tria. Anthera utrinque apice bifidae, albas. 

 Styh duo. Stigmata barbata, purpurea. 

 Semen globosum, glabrum, magnum. 



