Melica. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, 327 
A large beautiful species, a native of hedges, thickets, &c. 
Culms. near the base procumbent, but when supported by 
bushes erect and often from four to five feet high. Leaves 
upperside somewhat, hairy; mouths of the sheaths bearded, 
Spikes four to. five, digitate, secund, spreading, filiform, 
from six to nine inches long; hairy at the base, Rachis three- 
sided, Flowers in two rows, sessile, awned. Calyx one-flow- 
ered; glumes unequal, the interior being three or four times 
Jonger than the exterior, and short-awned, Corol, valves un-” 
equal, the largest has a long awn issuing just below its apex 
on the outside. Corpuscle, or neuter floret pedicelled, and 
awned, 
2. M.refracta: RR. 
Perennial, ascending. Leaves lanceolate. Panicle ovate, 
with the ramifications refracted. | Petals bearded, with stiff 
_ refracted bristles, 
A native of the Moluccas, and from. ae stedaoed 
amongst other plants, into the Botanic sii where it blos- 
soms during the cold season. _. 
' Root perennial. , Culms pee a Pry one to iets Sect 
long, round and smooth, Leaves lanceolate, smooth ; sheaths 
~ smooth, scarcely bearded at the mouths, — Panicle terminal, 
ovate ; ramifications somewhat compound, and refracted like 
the drooping branches of some species of Pinus. . Calyx 
smooth, two-valved, two-flowered, with an abortive third, or 
the rudiment of one. Corol, exterior glumes, chiefly of the 
second flower, bearded with. refracted, sharp, stiff bristles 
which ix to cEary sich that touches them, iad 
3. M. np Be R. 
Smooth, Culms from two to four feet high. iste ilicso. 
Jate. Panicle of long, ae tes Paani, racemes ; — 
awnless,. diandrous.. 
- Poa malabarica, / cg Willd. i, 394. 
UA native of mountains on the Coromandel coast, 
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