Melica. "CTRIANDAIA DIGYNIA. -329: 
its apex ort the écide = Corpuscle, or neuter floret pedicelled, and. 
awned. 
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2. M. refracta. R. 
Perennial, ascending. Leaves lanceolate. Panicle ovate, with the- 
ramifications refracted. Petals bearded, with stiff refracted bristles.. 
A native of the Moluccas, and from thence introduced amongst 
other plants, into the Botanic Garden, where it blossoms daring the. 
cold season. _ . | 
Root perennial.—Culms ascending, from one to three feet long, 
round and smooth.— Leaves lanceolate, smooth; sheaths smooth, 
scarcely bearded at the mouths.— Panicle terminal, ovate; rami üfica- 
tions somewhat compound, aud refracted like the drooping branches. 
of some species of Pinus,— Calyx smooth, two-valved, two-flowered,, 
3 with an abortive third, or the rudiment of one.—Corol, exterior glumes, — 
chiefly of the second flower, bearded with refracted, sharp, stiff bris- 
tles which fix to évery thing that touches them. 
3. M. diandra. R. 
‘Smooth ; culms from two to four feat high. Leaves lanceolate. Pa- 
nicle of Siti simple, expanding racemes ; flowers awnless, diandrous. 
Poa malubarica. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 394. 
' A native of mountains on the Coromandel Coast. 
Culms ascending, from two to four feet high, firm, smooth, about 
as thick as a fine quill.— Leaves bifarious, lanceolate, striated, 
smooth ; margins waved, unequally divided by the nerves, about an 
inch ind half broad, and six inches Jong.; mouth of the sheaths 
Projecting above in a membranaceous process.—Panicles large, 
thin, oblong, bowing a little, composed of sub-alternate, simple, - 
Spreading. racemes.— Flowers awnless.—Calyz two-flowered, with . 
the characteristic corpuscle, which is also here pedicelled, but awn- 
less.—Coro/, exterior valve of the inner one has its margins. and , 
“el elite. Stamens two. : 
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