Chloris, TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 33 1 



cept the innermost one which is a one-valved corpuscle or rudi- 

 ment, as in Melica. — Cah/x liom tliree to five- floweredj two-valved • 

 valvelets unequal, broad lanceolate, smooth, acute, permanent. — 

 Corol of the hermaphrodite two-valved ; exterior ra/re/t'/'s obcordate, 

 cucullate, awned ; margins smooth, but with three hairy nerves on 

 the back and sides ; interior oblong, with edges ciliate and always 

 awnless. 



2. C. montana. 7?. 



Spikes digitate, secund, united at the base ; hermaphrodite flow- 

 er ciliate, and awned ; neuter of three awnless valves. 



This a native of mountainous tracts only. It differs from Chi. bar- 

 hata only in the following respects. \it. The spikes are in number 

 from four to six, and united into a common flower-bearing rachis 

 near the base. id. Tytneuter floret has a third awned valve and 

 tiie awns are all straw-coioured. 



3. C. harhata. linn. Sp. PL ed. IViUd. iv. 926. 



Spikes digitate, secund ; hermaphrodite corol ciliate, and awned, 

 neuter of two awned valves. 



Andropogon barbatuin. Linn. Mant. 302. 588. 



Konda.pulla. Rheed. mal. 12. p. 95. t. 51. 



Grows in large tufts on pasture ground, 8tc. very common every 

 where. 



Culms, below creeping, and ramous, the joints perfectly smooth. 

 ■ — heaves near the base bifarious ; margins near the base and mouths 

 of the sheaths ciliate, — Spikes terminal, from six to twelve, sessile, 

 secund, expanding, from one to two inches long. Rachis striated, 

 not hairy, nor jointed. — F/oroers pedicelled, alternate, in two rows 

 on the outside of the spikes —Calyx two^fl?^wered, two-valved, 

 membranaceous and awnless. The lower flower is sessile and her- 

 maphrodite, its corol consists of two unequal ciliate valves^ the 

 base of which is surrounded with hairs, the exterior one ending m 

 a long, coloured awn. The other floret I have always found iaeuter ; 



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