5V IIOILTUS JAMAICENSIS; PAKI* 



striate;L Corolla pale, outer valve ovate, acute, including the inner, which is smaller 

 and flattisb ; anthers pale, seeming barren ; style bifid ; stigmas longer, pale purple; 

 valve of the male fcorolle.t -larger, acute, green; inner a little less, ovate, acute, 

 whitish ; anthers purple; seel in the hermaphrodite floret inclosed in the valves, which 

 are hardened, yellow, and shining. It is distinguished by the spikelets being much 

 larger tnan in any of the species.. Native of Jamaica, ia mountain woods, in the. 

 southern parts. Ja'. 



15. FALLEN*. TALE. 



Panicle compound, ovate; branches clustered, erect; spikelets ovate, subu* 

 late; culm. sub-divided, jointed ; leaves ovate-lanceolate; sheaths cjdiate on 

 the neck and at the edge. 



Culm from one to two feet high, round, leafy, sub-divided at the joints, grooved, 

 striate i ; knots larger, approximating, brown ; leaves oblique at the base, acuminate,! 

 slightly keeled, entire, longitudinally striated, smooth ; sheaths rather large, often 

 ventricose, striated. Peduncles from the upper sheaths, filiform, long, very loose; 

 branches of the panicle clustered in form of a thyrse ; spikelets pedicelled, approxi- 

 mating, erect, pale green,, smaller; inner valve of the calyx ovate- lanceolate, acu- 

 minate; outer three times smaller, ovate, acute. Valves of the corolla in the herma- 

 phrodite florets. minute, ovate, shining, whitish,., hardish, one a little less, the other 

 included ;. filaments very minute, anthers purple ; style bifid, stigmas purple; seetl 

 oblong, whitish, shining. In the male or neuter floret, the valves of the corolla almost 

 equal, lanceolate; outer greener ; inner more tender, involved in the outer. Native 

 of Jamaica among other grass in woods. S'ztt. 



16. LANATUM. WOOLLY. 



Panicle compound, erect, smooth; spikelets ovate; culm branched; leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate, pubescent; sheaths- Ian uginose, hirsute. 



Culm a fathom in height at most, round, pubescent ; branches divaricating, leafy, 

 hirsute; leaves acuminate, half a foot long, spreading, striated, lanuginose-hirsute, 

 soft ; six-aths open in front, very hirsute ; knots larger. Panicles half a foot-long, with 

 spreading, flexuose, smooth, branches; spikelets smooth, larger, remote, on capil-i 

 lary pedicels. Outer valve of the calyx less by half, ovate, obtuse, villose at top ; 

 inner larger, ovate, striated, concave, slightly keeled, villose at the top. Valves of 

 the corolla in the hermaphrodite floret ovate, paler ; anthers purple ; seed inclosed by 

 the yellow indurated valves of the corolla, ovate on one side, flat on the other. In the 

 corolla of the male, or neuter floret, the outer valve is larger, concave, ovate, acute^ 

 smooth, keeled; inner flat, less, more tender. ore. 



17. ARUNDINACEUM. REEDY. 



Panicle compound, spreading; branches and branchlets stiff, capillary; spike- 

 lets roundish ; culm sub-divided, jointed ; leaves broad-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 rigid. 



Culm a fathom in height, erect, round, leafy, smooth. Leaves ovate at the base, 

 erect, longitudinally nerved, striated, smooth ; sheaths close, with the neck contractej 

 and villose, striated, long ; knots small, with a black ring. Panicle erect, dense ^ 

 branched.-; I "mi lies and branchlets capillary, strict; spikelets small, numerous, pedi- 

 celled, pale green. Valves of the calyx almost equal, convex, ovate, striated, green ; 



