Melica. triandrta digynia. 32© 



Us apex on the outside Corpuscle, or neuter floret pedicelled, and 



awned. 



2. M. refract a. R. 



Perennial, ascending. Leaves^ lanceolate, rankle ovate, with ths 

 ramifications refracted. Petals bearded, with stitif refracted bristles.. 



A native of the Moluccas, and from thence introduced amongst 

 otlier plants; into the Botanic Garden, where it blossoms during the 

 cold season. 



Root perennial. — Culms ascending, from one to three feet long, 

 round and smooth. — Leaves lanceolate, smooth; sjieaihs smooth, 

 scarcely bearded at the mouths. — Panicle terminal, ovate; ramifica- 

 tions somewhat compound, and refracted like t!ie drooping branches 

 of some species of Piuiis.— Ca/j/r smooth, two-valved, two-flowered,, 

 with an abortive thud, or ihe rudniient of one. — Carol, exterior glumes, 

 chiefly of the second flower, bearded with refracted, sharp, sliti bris- 

 tles Vvhich fix to everv thing that touches them. 



3. M. diandra. R. 



Smooth ; culms from two to four feet high, heaves lanceolate. Pa-^ 

 nicle of long, simple, expanding racemes \ flowers awnless, diandrous. 



Poa mahibarica. Linn. Sp. PI- ed. IVilld. i. 394. 



A native of mountains on the Coromandel Coast. 



Culms ascending, from two to four feet high, firm, smooth, about 

 as thick as a fine quill. — Leaves bifarious, lanceolate, striated, 

 smooth ; m^trgins waved, unequally divided by the nerves, about an 

 inch and half broad, and six inches long; mouth of the sheaths 

 projecting above in a membranaceous process. — Panicles large, 

 thin, oblong, bowing a little, composed of sub-alternate, simple, 

 spreading racemes. — luozcers awnless. — Calj/x two-flowered, with 

 the characteristic corpuscle, which is also here pedicelled, but awn- 

 less. — Corol, exterior valve of the inner one has its margins and 

 Ueel ciliate. — Stamens two. 



