31§ THIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Milium. 



PHLEUM. Schreh. Gen. N. 128. 



Cali/x two-valved, sessile, linear, truncaled, with a bi-cuspid tip. 

 Corol inclosed. 



1. P. ciinitam. 



Grows ill tufts ; Culms ascending. Panicle linear, crowded vv tli 

 innumerable soft, bearded ramifications ; both glumes of the calj/v 

 awned and ciliate, and the large glume of the corol awned. 



A native of Nepala, and of the northern part of India- 



From tlie fornier counjr}' it was introduced into the Botanic Gar- 

 den by Dr. Buchanan ; ana from the latter by Col, Hardfticke. 



Culms numerous from a single root, ascending, length from six 

 to twelve inches, round, smooth, and involved in the sheaths of the 

 leaves, whicii are longer than its joints. — Leaves ensiform, from 

 three to six inches long, smooth. — Panicle linear, oblong, dense, 

 exceedingly soft from the immense niunber of most delicate, pale- 

 coloured awns. — Fiuwers minute and numerous. — Calj/jc, glume 

 one-ilowered, two-valved ; vakes nearly equal, with a most deli- 

 cate, long, soft arista irom the apex; hairy, chiefly on the back, 

 and membranaceous ciliale margins. — Cnro/ two-valved ; valves ob- 

 tuse, much shorter than the calyx, as in general a very minute awn 

 issues from the apex of the larger valve.— Scet/ smooth, oblong, 

 but obtuse. 



Obs. In the cold season of 1802 -3, 1 reared the same grass from 

 seed sent from England by A. B. Lambert, Esq. 



MILIUM. Schreb. Gen. N. 10. 



Calyx, glume one-flowered, two-valved. Corol two-valved, less 

 than the calyx. 



1 . 'M.Jiliformc. R. 



Creeping, smooth. Leaves short, with a stipulary process at 



