84 HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. wilb- 



WILD-OATS. PHARUS. 



Cl. 21, or. 6. Mcnaeeia nexandria. Nat. or. Gramma. 

 Gex char. Male flowers pedtincled, calyx a two-valved, one-flowered, glume ; co= 

 roha two- rah i ' iger ; .stamens six filaments with linear anthers: Female 

 flowers longer^ sessile, in the sanie paniede ; calyx a two- flowered, one-vaired, 

 glume ; corolla a two-ralved glume, a little longer; the pistil has a linear germ, a 

 simple style, and three stigmas ; no peril arp ; the outer glume of the corolla in- 

 vests die seed, now larger, muricated all round with soft adhering little hooks ; 

 seed oblong, grooved oa one side, large. One species :s a native ot Jamaica. 



I.ATIFOLllN. BROAD-LE VED. 



Gramen avenaceum syhaticum, foliis latissitnislocustis longisnon arti- 

 tatis, gluims spudiceis. Sloaue, v. l.p. 116, t 73, f. 2. Foliis ner- 

 vosis, oblong is, oblusr, peliolis i/.t contortis, ut adversa pagaia. jolio 

 simper caium resp'icia.'it. Browne, p. 344, t. c6, i'. 3. 

 Panicle branched, cah xe.> apetalous, naked, awnless. 



This grass has many ihree or four inches long filaments, with lateral fibrils, uniting in 

 a roundish root. Root-leaves several, encompassing tne stalk and one another by tneir 

 footstalks, which arc striated, of alight brown colour, and ab nit nine inches long; leaves 

 obionij ovate, six inches Ions; and two broad, acuminate, striated, thin, hard, and rough, 

 with tlie mid -rib prominent at the back. Sialk a foot and a half high, having below 

 two very short joints, dividing at a foot from the groaud into several branches, on which 

 are naked Bowers half an inch in length, sessile; alternate, outer flumes blackish, and 

 within that a long rolled up membrane. It grows every where in the inland hig.li 

 sliadj woods, and thought to be a most nourishing grass for cattle. Sloan?. 



WILD-OCHRA. MALACHRA. 



Cl. 16, or. 6. Moncdelph'a polyandria. Nat. or. Columnifera, 

 This generic name is derived from the Greek word for soft, on account of the soft- 

 ness of the leaves. 



Gen. char. Calyx a common perianth mostly five- flowered, three or five leaved^, 

 large ; leaflets cordate, acute, permanent ; chaffs bristle-shaped, set round the pro- 

 per perianths ; proper perianth one- leafed, bellshaped, small, five-cleft perma- 

 nent ; the proper corolla five obovate petals, entire, fastened at th i bottom to i e 

 tube of the stamens ; stamens many filaments, conjoined btelbw into a tube, above 

 loose, gaping along the whole surface of the cylinder ; anthers kidney-form ; the 

 pistil has an orbicular germ, a cvhndric ten-cleft style, and globular stigm;:> ; the 

 pericarp a roundish capsule, divisible into five cells, compressed on one side, gib- 

 bous on the other ; seeds solitary, roundish, angular. One species a a native of 

 Jamaica. 



CAP1TATA. HEADED. 



Malva aspera major aquatka, ex hortensium tea rosearum genere, 

 fare miiwre lutco, semine acuitato. Sluane, v. 1, p. 217, t. 137, f. 1. 



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