Chloris. -  ‘'TRIANDRIA DIGYNTA, 329 
dieidlesk Corol of the hermaphrodite flower ey of 
the male, or neuter one-valved, all of them awned, aia 
1. C. tenella. R. 4 
Spikes solitary ; spikelets with diner: or four wrtiagecaidel 
dite awned florets, and a neuter rudiment, 
_ A native of the Peninsula of India. 
Culms delicate, erect, smooth, about a foot high. Leaves 
rather large in proportion to the rest of the plant, smooth, 
and soft. Spikes solitary, secund, scarcely two inches long. 
Spikelets alternate, and alternately pointing two ways. Flow- 
ers of the spikelets, or to each calyx, three, four, or five, all 
hermaphrodite, (at least in the rather imperfect state in which 
I have found this rare species) except the innermost one 
which is a one-valved corpuscle or rudiment, as in Melica, 
Calyx from three to five-flowered, two-valved ; valvelets un- 
equal, broad lanceolate, smooth, acute, permanent. Corol of. 
the hermaphrodite two-valved; exterior valvelets obcordate, 
cucullate, awned; margins smooth, but with three hairy 
nerves on the balk and sides ; interior phdonsie with meee ci- 
eae i and esi awnless, — 
2. C. montana, R. 
Spikes digitate, secund, united at the base; hermaphrodite — 
flower ciliate, and awned ; neuter of three awnless valves, 
This is‘ native of mountainous tracts only, It differs from 
C. barbata only in the following respects. 1st, The spikes 
are in number from four to six, and united into a common — 
flower-bearing rachis near the base, 2d. The neuter floret we a 
a third awned valve and the awns areal tremesentnitle pe 
“B.C. barbata, Linn. op. ple eds Wille it. 926. pees 
Spikes digitate, secund ; J be corel Gilinte, and 
awned, neuter of two. jawied-vilven’: °° 
Andropogon barbatum, Linn. Mant. 302. 588. 
Konda-pulla. Rheed, Mal, 12, p, 95. t. 51. 
