316 | TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. E Milium, 
PHLEUM. Schreb. Gen. N. 128. 
-~ Calyx two-valved, sessile, linear, truncated, with a bi-cuspid tip. 
Corol inclosed. 
1. P. crinitum. ndm é 
Grows in tufts; Culms ascending. Panicle linear, crowded with 
innumerable soft, bearded ramifications ; both glumes of the calyx 
awned and ciliate, and the large glume of the corol awned. 
A native of Nepala, and of the northern part of India. 
From the former country it was introduced into the Botanic Gar- 
den by Dr. Buchanan ; and from the latter by Col, Hardwicke. 
Culms numerous from a single root, ascending, length from six 
to twelve inches, round, smooth, and involved in the sheaths of the 
leaves, which are longer than its joints.—Leaves ensiform, from 
three to six inches long, smooth.—- Panicle linear, oblong, dense, 
exceedingly soft from the immense number of most delicate, pale- 
coloured awns.—Flowers minute and numerous.— Caly«; glume 
one-flowered, two-valved; valves nearly equal, with a most deli- 
cate, long, soft arista from the apex; hairy, chiefly on the back, 
and methbranaceous ciliate mar gins.— Coro! two-valved ; valves ob- 
tuse, much shorter than the calyx, as in general a very minute awn 
issues from the apex of the larger valve.—Seed smooth, oblong, 
but obtuse. 
; Obs. In the cold season of 1802.-3, I reared the same grass from 
seed sent from England by A. B. Lambert, no 
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MILIUM. Schreb. Gen. N. 10. 
Calyx, poen one-flowered, two-valved. Coral evo p 
than the calyx. ` Es 
& i 
1. M. filiforme. R. T T 
Creeping, smooth. Leaves short, with a stipulary process » 
