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Chloris, TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 331 
cept the innermost one which is a one-valved corpuscle or rudi- 
ment, as in Melica.— Calyx from three to five- flowered, two-valved ; 
valvelets unequal, broad lanceolate, smooth, acute, permanent.— 
Corol of the hermaphrodite two-valved ; exterior valvelets obcordate, 
cucullate, awned ; margins smooth, bi with three hairy nerves on 
the back and ides; ; interior oblong, with edges ciliate and always 
awnless, 
2. C. montana. R. 
Spikes digitate, secund, united at the bie: hermaphrodite flow- 
er ciliate, and awned ; neuter of three awnless (NE TU E E 
__ This a native of mountainous tracts only. It differs fidit Chl. bar- 
“Vata only i in the following respects. 1st. ‘The spikes are in tiámibét- 
from four to six, and united into a common flower-bearing rachis 
- near the base. 2d. The neuter floret has a tbird awned valve and 
the awns are all straw-coloured. 
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3. C. barbata. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. iv. 926. 
Spikes digitate, secund ; hermaphrodite corol ciliate, and awned, 
neuter of two awned valves. 
Andropogon barbatum. Linn. Mant. 302. 588. 
Konda-pulla. Rheed. mal. 12. p. 95. t. 51. | 
Grows in large tufts on pasture ground, &c. very common every 
where, DENS | 
Culms, below creeping, and ramous, the joints perfectly smooth. 
— Leazes near the base bifarious ; margins near the base and mouths - 
of the sheaths ciliate.— Spikes terminal, from six to twelve, sessile, 
secund, expanding , from one to two inches long. Rachis striated, 
not hairy, nor jointed. — Flowers pedicelled, alternate, i in two rows 
on the outside of the spikes.—Calyr two-flowered, two-valved, 
Tüembranaceous and awnless. The lower flower is sessile and her- 
maphrodite, its corol consists of two unequal ciliate valves, the 
base of which is ‘surrounded with hairs, the exterior one ending in 
à long, coloured awn. The other floret I have — found neuter ; 
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