^OtJ HOTITUS JAMAICENSI-S. muc 



3. CILIAUIS. ClUATKD. 



Gramen praicnse panieula ei /oliis anguslisshnis, spicts oreviius 

 wuticis locustis miftimis. Sloane, v. I, p. 115, t. 73, t'. 1. Briza. 

 Tcnuissima, paniculis quasi lanusinosis pedtowulis brevibus et U- 

 nuissimis inciikntibus. Browne, p. 135. 

 Panicle conttutcted ; inuer valves of the glumes hairj-, ciliate., 



Gulm from two inches to half a foot in height, simple, slender, erect, smooth ; 

 leaves linear, short, even. Panicle or compound spike contracted, with short hrancii- 

 lets pressed close ; florets ovate, of a cinereous rust colour, minute, shming, villose ; 

 calycine glvime from two to four- valved, from six to eight-fl/)\verecl ; valves equal, ovate, , 

 acute, keeled, awnless, beardless. Upper valve of the corolla ovate, obtuse, not 

 keeled, cihate at the edge ; lower valve keeled, entire at the edge, the keel appearing 

 serrate when magnilied,. inclosing the upper one at- the base ; anthers purple ; stigmas 

 villose, pale ; seed oblong. This is a middle species between /^/';'ra and poi?. Browne 

 calls it sv^ali trevibling grass, and observes that this little plant seldom rises aboae si>: 

 or seven inche.'!, and is sustained by a very slender weakly stalk ; it is easily distin- 

 guished by its dehca,te braoches,fine leaves, and downy head.- 



]fo,English Name. MELAMPODIUM. 



Cl. 19, .or. 4. Syngencsia polyganiianecessoina. Nat. on. Composit^e^-. 

 This name is derived from two Greek words signifying black and a foot. 



GeN- CH.\R. Calyx five-leaved; corolla compound, radiate ; the pericarp an tm-^ 

 changed calyx ; seeds in the females solitary, oh-ovate, compressed, four-cor- 

 nered, prickly at the sides, crowned with a heart-shaped, involuted, converging, 

 calycle ; the receptacle chaffy, conical ; chaffs lanceolate, coloured, the length 

 of the florets ; down one- leafed, involuted, converging. Swartz found one species 

 of.this genus in Jamaica, 



HUAIII.E. HUMBLE. 



Sttjn upright ; leaves lyrate-tootlied, sessile. 



MELTC GRASS;^^^ MELICA. 



Cl. 3, OR. 2. Triandria digynia. Nat. or. Gramitia. 

 FN. CHAR. Calyx two-valved, two-flowered ; corolla two-valved ; nectan' ofle=- 

 leafed; there is no. pericarp, the corolla incloses and drops the seed; which i^ 

 single, ovate, and grooved on one side. One species is -a uative of Jamaica, 



PAPILIONACEA, PEA-FLOWhRED. 



Gramen spica brizis singidari, locust is viajoribus, villosis,.puppura- 

 scenlibus. bioane, v. 1, p. 106, t. 6+, f. 1. . 



lower 'valve, of thecaljx very large, coloured ; outer petal sub- ciliate* 



Culm 



