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330 YRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Chloris, 
4. M. latifolia. R. 
Perennial; culms erect, simples from bar to eight feet M 
Leaves lanceolate. Panicles large and open, with alternate, compound 
drooping branches. 
A native of the Garrow hills, from thence it was Beoinght to the T 
Botanic Garden, by Mr. Robert Kyd, where it blossoms in March, 
at which period and indeed at all times it is one of the most elegant 
plants in the whole order. 
Stems very numerous from the same root, erect, straight, ani al- 
ways without branches, more or less invested in the sheaths of the 
leaves ; very smooth, texture. remarkably hard, and filled with firm. 
pith, generally about as thick as a goose quill, and when i m flower 
from six to eight feet high. — Leaves sessile on their sheaths, 
olate, smooth ; from six to twenty inches long, and from one to four 
broad. They are much like the leaves employed by the | nn 
3 put between the boxes and lead canisters in which their bas are 
packed.— Seed ventricose-oval, smooth, both ends 1 rather p 
CHLORIS. 
Polygamous. Dai two-valved, from two to six-flowered; ; herma- 
phrodite flowers sessile ; male, or neuter ones pedicelled. Corol of 
the hermaphrodite flower two- valved; of the male, or neuter one- 
valved, all of them awned. 
3. C. tenella. R. cix 
. Spikes solitary ; Spikelets with three or four t hermaphrodite awn- : 
ed-florets, and a neuter rudiment. : 
A native of the Peninsula of India. oe 
Culms delicate, erect, smooth, about a foot high.— Leaves rather: d | 
large in proportion to the rest of the- ‘plant, smooth, and soft:— nds 
Spikes solitary, secund, scarcely two inches long. — Spikelets alter- 
nate, and alternately pointing two ways .— Flowers of the spikelets, 
or to each calyx, three, four, or five, all hermaphrodite, (at least in 
the rather vind state in which 1i have found this rare species) € a 
