320 (CFRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. — -Holeus. 
— “This is the largest species I laid ; itis a native of hedges, &e. 
amongst the mountains. 
Root ligneous, perennial.—Cu/ms erect, from four to tweli feet 
high, often as thick as the little finger, round, and smooth, inside rê- 
plete with a fibrous spongy substance.— Leaves smooth, from one to 
two feet long; and:from one to two inches broad at the base, taper- 
ing from thence to a fine point.— Panicles erect, oval, or oblong, 
from one to two feet long, composed of alternate, ramous, filiform, : 
expanding or bowing bitches: —Calyz, valves equal, four times short- 
er than the corol.—Corol, exterior valve fringed round the ty 
with long, soft, white hairs.—Stamens two. 
Obs. The leaves of this plant are much more like those employ: 
ed by the Chinese to neck up various articles with, than any other 
I have yale, Bob NA D x eL udi 
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-HOLcUs. delia: Gen. N. 1565. | 
vei : Calyr, glume two- valved, one to three-flowered. 
Corol, glume two-valved, the hermaphrodite awned — Stamina three. 
Styles two. 
|. 3. H. nercosus. R. 
Erect, hairy. Panicle oblong, obo three, and. EN i cus- 
pidate, two-flowered; flowers both sessile, one hermaphrodite and. 
awned; the other EE and awnless. 
A native of Coromandel, 
‘Culms erect, ramous; long, wiry roots issuing from the lower 
- joints.— Leaves and their sheaths papillose, hairy .— Panicles oblong, . 
smooth. Ramifications alternate, simple. — Flowers paired ; one ses- 
sile, the other pedicelled.— Calyces two-flowered, three to five-nerv- 
ed, smooth, straight, cuspidate, longer than the flowers. — Corol in 
both two-valved, the exterior floret male, large, and awnless, the in- 
per minute, hermaphrodite, and awned. — Stamens three. —Styles : 
two, in the hermaphrodite. 
