352 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Manisuris. 



ed by a lacerated membranaceous border or stipule. Spikes 

 solitary, terminal, and from the exterior arils ped uncled, se- 

 cund, jointed, smooth, a little compressed, from one to two 

 inches long 1 . Peduncles articulated, and bi acted at the mid- 

 dle. Flowers, the hermaphrodite ones occupy a waved row 

 of pits on the four sides of the spike, while the male ones pos- 

 sess two sides, the back is naked. 



Hermaphrodite flowers. Calyx two- valved, one-flow- 

 ered; the exterior valvelet has a broad coloured margin, 

 which is emarginate, and deeply indented at the sides, like a 

 fiddle; inner valvelet oblong", lodged in a pit of the rachis. 

 Corol two valved, membranaceous. Nectary two obcor- 

 date, crenulated scales embrace the germ. Stamens three. 

 Styles two. 



Male flowers. Calyx two-flowered, two-valved, valve- 

 lets nearly equal, boat-shaped. Corol with two membranace- 

 ous valves. Stamens three. Pistil none. 



2. M. grannlaris. Linn, sp, pi. ed. Willd. iv. 945. Corom. 

 pl2.JST.WS. 



Ramous, sub-erect, hairy, from one to two feet high ; spikes 

 fascicled. Hermaphrodite calyx oval, and rugose ; male or 

 neuter one-flowered. 



Grows among bushes. 



Culms very ramous, nearly erect, filiform, hairy, from one 

 to two feet high. Leaves numerous, very hairy, stiff and sharp. 

 Spikes terminal, and axillary, peduncled, several tog-ether, 

 small, compressed, from half an inch to an inch long'. Pani- 

 cles as in the former. Rachis jointed, much waved and ex- 

 cavated as in Rottboellia. Flowers from four to ten of each 

 sort, their situation exactly as in the last species, viz. the her- 

 maphrodite occupy the forepart, while the male, or neuter 

 are placed on the sides, the former are globular, and the latter 

 lanceolate. 



Hermaphrodite flowers. Calyx one-flowered, two- 

 rsdved, exterior valvo round or rigid, and very rugose; inner 



