318 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, - Holeus, » 
two inches broad at the base, tapering 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 branches. Calyx, valves equal, four times shorter 
than the corol. Corol, exterior valve fringed: round. the 
margins, with long, soft, white hairs. Stamens two. 
Obs. The leaves of this plant are much more like those 
employed by the Chinese to pack up various articles with, | 
than any other I have yet seen. ’ 
HOLCUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1565. 
Polygamous. Calyx, glume two-valved, one to three-flow- 
ered. Corol; glume two-valved, the hermaphrodite awned. 
Siamina three. Styles two. 
1. H. nervosus. R. ; 
Erect, hairy. Panicle oblong... Glumes three, and five- 
nerved, cuspidate, two-flowered. Flowers both sessile, one 
hermaphrodite and awned ; the other male and awnless, » 
A native of Coromandel, ot 
Culms erect, ramous ; long, wiry roots issuing from the low: 
er joints, Leaves and their sheaths papillose, hairy. Pani-— 
cles oblong; smooth. Ramifications alternate, simple. Flow-— 
ers paired; one sessile, the other pedicelled.  Calyces two- — 
flowered, three to five-nerved, smooth, straight, cuspidate, — 
longer than the flowers. Corol in both two-valved, the oe 
terior floret male, large, and awnless, the inner minute, her-_ 
maphrodite, and awned. Stamens caine eee souk, inthe 
hermaphrodite. yarn 
2. H. ciliatus. R. aan 
Erect, hairy; panicle linear, hirsute, : Ghana: papillose, ci- — 
Nate two-flowered, both’ flowers eee one hone 
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