330 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, . Chloris, 
Grows in large tufts on pasture ground, &c. very common — 
every where. - 
Culms, below creeping, and ramous, the joints perfectly 
smooth, Leaves near thé 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, in two rows on the outside of the spikes. 
Calyx two-flowered, two-valved, membranaceous and awn- 
less. The lower flower is sessile and hermaphrodite, its co- 
rol consists of two unequal ciliate valves, the base of which 
is surrounded with hairs, the exterior one ending in a long, 
coloured awn. The other floret I have always found neuter ; 
it stands on a short pedicel and consists. of two obcordate, 
awned valvelets ; awn and margin of the valvelets coloured. 
Obs. Cattle eat it till in flower; after which I never:saw 
. any animal touch it. nih! began. (span 
A, C, polystachya, R: bid 
Spikes from ten to twenty, fascicled. Exterior glume of 
the hermaphrodite flower with ciliate margins ; neuter florets’ 
two, with single smooth valves. 
A native of the Peninsula of India. 
Culms below procumbent for a little way, then erect, and 
_ about two feet high, Leaves as in other grasses, and smooth. 
_ Spikes about sixteen, in. a terminal, sub-fastigiate umbelli- , 
form fascicle, secund with the alternate spikelets, or flowers 
pointing to opposite sides, from two to three inches long. 
Calyx of two, unequal, lanceolate, boat-shaped, smooth, per- 
manent awnless valves, which contain one two-valved, her- 
maphrodite, awned flower; and two peduncled, one-valved, 
awned, neuter florets. The exterior valvelet of the —_ 
phrodite flower has its margins ciliate, 
