Rotibeellia, _ ERIANDRIA DIGYNIA, a 
GR, setacea, Corom., pl. ii. N. 132. ‘ah 
Erect, setaceous, smooth, from two to six inichlig high, 
Spikes solitary, termjnal, unilateral ; rachis not joined, Caly- 
ces one-tlowered,. Corols two-valved, — Hey 
Grows on old walls. _ : 
- Culms many, erect, ramous, filiform, smooth, fron two.to 
six inches high. Leaves, inside a little hairy, in size propor- 
tioned to the plant. Spikes terminal, solitary, awled, secund, 
about aninch, or an inch and a halflong. Rachis excavated 
on ote side, but uot joined, Flowers, they are all hermaphro- 
dite, imbricated transversely on the excavated side of the ra- 
-chis, Calyx one-flowered, two-valved ; valvelets equal, ment 
branaceous margined, Corol two-valved, membranaceous, 
seaaebi Stamens three, Styles two, ses animes 
7. R. Thomea, Linn. sp. pl. ed. ie i. “464, Coram. yi 
N, 132. af 
_. Erect, compressed, we two. sitched hich, Spikes solitary 
terminal, two ranked, Rachis not joilited, sings one-flow- 
ered.  Corol two-valved. 
_ R. Thomwa and pleas Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd, i. 464.5. 
are, I suspect this very species, : 
_ Grows, with the last species, on old walla, a 
. Culms minute, erect, compressed, about an denon 
dears of the spike, and two with it, Leaves bifarioiis, nu 
merous, Spikes terminal, solitary, subulate, distichous, com- 
pressed, Rachis waved, excavated on the opposite side, not 
articulated, Flowers all hermaphrodite, disposed anahilily 
in the excavations of the rachis. Calyx one Rips od, two- 
valved; exterior valvelet rigid, lined nterior b at-sha 
and less rigid. Corol Ciao es 
Setaccous Spikes simple, pile ee not grit 
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