Van]* IhTORTUS JAMAICENSIS: H 



5. FASCICUI.ATUM. FASCICLED. 



Spikes panicled, alternate, erect, sub-fastigiate ; spikelets directed one way, 

 roundish. 

 Height two or three feet; culm jointed, erect, round, leafy, smooth; leaves a foot 

 long, rounded at the base, broad-lanceolate, acute, streaked longitudinally, rough at 

 the edge ; sheath ; long, striated, smooth, sub-villo.se at the edge and neck. Spikes 

 terminating, half a foot-long, sub- verticillate ; racfiis sub-rlexuose, stiff, rough. - 

 Florets roundish or ovate, small, brown; pedicels sub-binorous, the upper ones one- 

 flowered, capillary, somewhat hirsute. Outer vaive of the calyx one-third the size o 

 the other; inner ovate, concave, marked with iongituciinal lines, appearing netted 

 when magnified, fen ugin -us brown. Valves ot tiie hermaphrodite corolla ovate, whit- 

 ish, one smaller inciuuk-d ; stigmas whitish ; male corolla empty ; outer valve like the 

 inner valve of the calyx-; inner smaller, whitish, ovate, Native of Jamaica- in low 

 grassy places. Sw. 



6. UNEARE, L1NF.AR, 



Crainen dactylon, panicula longa, spin's plurimis gracilioribus et 

 Ivngis. Sloane, v. 1, p. 113, t. 70, f. 3. 



Spikes digitate, in fours, or thereabouts, linear ; floret* solitary, directed one 



way, awnless. 



Culms a foot and a half long, even, branched ; spikes divided into many spikelets 



towards the top, which are linear, straight, narrow ; flowers alternate below ; outer 



scale of the calyx shorter, spreading, adhering to the rachis. Native of Jamaica ia 



most savannas. 



The following species are panicled. 



7. NEMOROSUM. WOOD. 



Panicle simple ; branches distant, erect ; florets remote, scattered, ovate, acu- 

 minate ; culm decumbent, jointed ; sheaths and neck hairy. 



Height from one to two feet ; roots and radicles very long, filiform i culm creeping 

 at the base, ascending, somewhat branched, rooting at the joints, round, striated, 

 pubescent or smooth, loose. Branches, from the sheaths of the leaves, somewhat hir- 

 sute. Leaves distich, obliquely elliptic at the base, unequal on the sides, terminated 

 by a lanceolate point, quite entire, sontewhat waved, very thin, and very finely streaked, 

 smooth underneath, hairy above. Sheaths at the joints short, open in front, striated^ 

 hirsute, hairy at the neck ; knots rather large,.- villose with white hairs. Panicles 

 small, erect, with terminating and axillary peduncles ; branches short, few-flo.vered ; 

 florets pedicelled, small, green. The two valves. of the -calyx are oblong, nearly equal, 

 a iedatthe tip; the two valves of the corolla, in the hermaphrodite flower, are oblong, 

 b.unt, whitish, one of them smaller and included. Anthers pale; styles rather long; 

 stigmas feathered, whitish. In the male flower the outer vaive is ovate, acute, concave, 

 and includes the inner, which is smaller, ovate-acute, and more tender; anthers pur- 

 ple. Sw. 



8. ACUMINATUM. ACUMINATE. 



Panicles simple, shorter than the leaves; branches capillary, diffused; spikelets 

 remote, ob-ovate ; culm decumbent, jointed, branched ; leaves lanceolate- 

 subulate, erect;, sheaths villose. 



Height 



