352 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Manisuris. - 
"ed by a lacerated membranaceous border or stipule. Spikes 
solitary, terminal, and from the exterior arils peduncled, se- 
cund, jointed, smooth, a little compressed, from one to two 
inches long. Peduncles articulated, and bracted at the mid- 
dle. Flowers, the hermaphrodite ones occupy a waved row 
of pits on the four sides of the spike, while the male ones pos- 
sess two sides, the back is naked. . 
HERMAPHRODITE FLOWERS, Calyx two-valved, one-flow- 
ered; the exterior valvelet has a broad ‘coloured margin, 
which is emarginate, and deeply indented at the sides, like a 
fiddle; inner valvelet oblong, lodged in a pit of the rachis, 
Corel two-valved, membranaceous. Nectary two obcor- 
date, crenulated scales embrace the germ. Stamens three. 
si deg two. 
MALE FLowERS. Calyx two-flowered, two-valved, vabvbs 
lets nearly equal, boat-shaped. Coroé with two membranace- 
ous valves. Stamens three. Pistil none. 
2. M. granularis, Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. iv. 945, Corom. 
pl. 2. N. 118, 
Ramous, sub-erect, hairy, from one to two feet high ; spikes 
fascicled. Hermaphrodite calyx oval, and Eugor?> male or 
neuter one-flowered. : 
Grows among bushes. = 
| Culms very ramous, nearly erect, filiform, hairy, from one 
totwo feet high, Leaves numerous, very hairy, stiff and sharp. 
_ Spikes terminal, and axillary, peduncled, several together, 
small, compressed, from half an inch to an inch long. Pani- 
cles as in the former. Rachis jointed, much waved and ex- 
cavated as in Rottbeellia, Flowers from four to ten of each 
sort, their situation exactly as in the last species, viz. the her- 
maphrodite occupy the forepart, while the male, or neuter 
aare Placed on the sides, the former are globular, — the latter 
_ Hermapnropite rrowers. Calyx one-flowere ; he o- 
raved setae saloorene hye sashes rugose ; it 
