328 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Chloris. 
Culms ascending, from two to four feet high, firm, smooth, — 
about as thick asa fine quill. Leaves bifarious, lanceolate, 
striated, smooth; margins waved, unequally divided by the 
nerves, about an inch and a half broad, and six inches long ; 
mouth of the sheaths projecting above in a membranaceous 
process. Panicles Jarge, thin, oblong, bowing a little, com- 
posed of sub-alternate, simple, spreading racemes, Flowers 
awuless. Calya two-flowered, with the characteristic corpus- 
cle, which is also here pedicelled, but awnless. Corol, exte- 
rior. valve of the inner one has its margins and keel ciliate. 
Stamens two, ; 
4. M. latifolia. R. 
- Perennial ; culms erect, simple, from four t to eight feet high. ; 
Leaves Lanse tates Panicles large and _— wile alternate, — 
compound drooping branches, 
A native of the Garrow hills, from thence it was ienia 
to the Botanic garden, by Mr. Robert Kyd, where it blos- ft 
soms 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, — 
and always 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 asa goose- 
quill, and when in flower from six to eight feet high. Leaves — 
sessile on their sheaths, lanceolate, smooth ; from six to twen- 
ty inches long, sid Rech WAS te ea? broad: They aremuch 
like the leaves employed by the Chinese to put between the 
boxes and lead canisters in which their teas are packed. 
Seed ventricose-oval, smooth, both ends rather pointed, 
CHLORIS. 
Polygamous. Calyx two-valved, from two to six-flower- 
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