3S0 7RIANDRIA BIGYNIA. ChlortS, 



4. M. latifoUa. li. 



Perennial ; culms erect, simple, from four to eight feet high. 

 Leaver lanceolate, rankles large and open, with alternate, compound 

 drooping branches. 



A native of the Garrow hills, from thence it was brought to the 

 Botanic Garden, by ]Mr. Robert Kyd, where it blossoms in March, 

 at wliich period and indeed at all times it is one of the most elegant 

 plants in the whole order. 



Stems very numerous from the same root, erect, straight, and al- 

 ways without branches, more or less invested in the sheaths of the 

 leaves ; very smooth, texture remarkably hard, and filled with firm 

 pith, generally about as thick as a goose quill, and when in flower 

 from six to eight feet high. — Leaves sessile on their sheaths, lance- 

 olate, smooth ; from six to twenty inches long, and from one to four 

 broad. They are much like the leaves employed by the Chinese to 

 put between the boxes and lead canisters in which their Teas are 

 packed. — Seed ventricose-oval, smooth, both ends rather pointed. 



CHLORIS. 



Polygamous. Crt/j/r two-valved, from two to six-flowered ; herma- 

 phrodite flowers sessile ; male, or neuter ones pedicelled. Carol ot 

 the hermaphrodite flower two-valved ; of the male^ or neuter one- 

 valved, all of them awned. 



I.e. tenelia. R. 



Spikes solitary ; Spikelets with three or four hermaphrodite awn- 

 ed florets, and a neuter rudiment. 



A native of the Peninsula of India. 



Culms delicate, erect, smooth, about a foot high. — Leaves rather 

 large in proportion to the rest of the plant, smooth, and soft. — 

 Spikes solitary, secund, scarcely two inches long. — Spikelets alter- 

 aiate, and alternately pointing two ways. — Flowers of the spikelets, 

 or to each calyx, three, four, or five, all hermaphrodite, (at least iu 

 the rather imperft'ct state in which 1 have found this rare species) tx- 



