.-CtjcuMBER HORTUS JAarAICENSIS. 2S3 



2. C!L!ATA, CIUATE, 



Spikes digitate, about five ; glumes ciliate on the edge. S'^. This is the an- 

 di'opoi^on pubcscens, 



3. PETRCr.A. ROCKY, 



"Spikes about four, stiff, nearly erect ; s'pikelets crovvtled, -glubrous, av.-nless ; 

 cf.im compressed. -"ia'. 



4. POLYDACTVLA. MANY-SPIKED. 



Gramen clactylon cla/ius spicts plurimis tomcntosis. Sloane, v. ]j 

 p.. Ill, t. 6.5, J'. 2, Andropon \. Browne, p. 364. 



Spikes numerous, fascicled, lax ; glumes cijiate-villous on the margin. 



This has a strong fibrous root, broad leaves of a pale yellowisli green colour, like 

 Ttbose of oats. The stem is knotted, rising three feet high, at the uppermost joint 

 sometimes divided into two tops, the one llovvered the other not. Several spikes, from 

 four to eleven shoot from the same centre, hanging downwards, each about four inches 

 long, and very hairy, downy, or woolly. It grew plentifully in the savanna byTtto 

 !Mile Wood. Slocuie. This is the andropagon polydadijion of Linneus. 



5. RADIATA. RADIATE. 



Grayncn ilactylon spins gracilioribus phrumque qiiafuor crucJformifcr 

 dispositis. Sloane, v. I, p. IM, t. 68, f. 3. Cruciattnn assurgens, 

 spiels subhirsul is Icnuioribus et loiigioribus deorsinn Jrugifevis. 

 Browne, p. 137. 



Spikes numerous, fascicled, nearly erect ; florets subulate, glabrous. 



This has a deep fibrous root, short and narrow leaves, a jointed, crooked., slenden, 

 white stem, about a foot and a half long, tearing generally four white slendei'- spikes, 

 standing crosswise, though sometimes they are three, six, or five, in number. On 

 them stand the seeds in two-eared husks. This is the most ordinary grass in the savan^ 

 jias, its stalks, remaining dry most part of the year, and the andropogunfasciculatiDH of 

 Linneus. 



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CUCUMBER. CUCUMIS. 



Cl. 21, OR. 10. Monoecia syngracsia. Nat. or. Cuairhilaceee. 



'Gen. CHAR, Male calyx a one-leafed perianth, bell-shaped, the margin terminated 

 by five subulate teeth; corolla five-parteti, growiug to the calyx, bell-shaped; 

 divisions ovate, veiny-wrinkled : stamens three filaments, very short, inserted 

 into the calyx, converging, two-bifid at the tip ; the anthers are lines creeping 

 upwards and downwards, outwardly adnate ; receptacle three-cornered, truncated, 

 in the centre of the flower. Female calyx, as in the n>ale, superior, deciduous; 

 corolla as in the male; no stamens; filaments three, .acuminate, very small, with- 

 out anthers ; the pistil has an inferior large germ ; style cylindric, very shorty 

 etigmas three, thick, gibbous, two-parted, turned outwards ; the pericarp a three 

 or four-celled pome, cells membranaceous, soft, separate ; seeds numerous, ovate- 

 acute, compressed, placed in a double order. Only one species of this genus is 



