TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 146 
HOL/CUS, Pl. IL. f. 30. 
Flermaphrodite florets, sitting. . 
Car. Husk of 2 valves, nearly e e-shaped, blunt, leather- 
like, awnless, containing 1 floret. Valves, outer one 
large, concave, with about 3 teeth at the point, embrac- 
ing the inner valve, which is oblong, the edges rolled ‘in. 
Boss. Husk 2 valves, delicate, woolly, smaller than the 
calyx. Outer valve smaller, placed within the inner 
valve of the calyx, mostly cloven, awned. _Awn 
growing out of the cleft, longer or shorter, jointed, 
twisted ; sometimes absent. 
Nectary of 3 leafits, 2 of them gristly lopped ; the 
~ third opposite, egg or spear-shaped, woolly. 
Stam... Filaments 3, hair-like, very delicate. Anthers 
oblong, cloven. feue 
Pista, Germen egg-shaped. Styles 2, hair-like, diverging. 
= bea Summits testes 5 i down: * ; igs % 
S. Vess. none. The husks of the blossom and of the 
calyx inclose the seed. 
Szep solitary, egg-shaped, covered, easily shedding, armed 
with the awn of the blossom. 
Male florets smaller, on foot-stalks, solitary or in 
_. pairs, standing by each hermaphrodite floret. 
Cat. Husk 2 valves. Valves egg-spear-shaped, rather 
acute, chaff-like, awnless. Outer valve concave, em- 
bracing the immer, which is narrower. 
Buoss. Hush 2. valves, smaller, delicate. Outer valve 
within the inner valve of the calyx, shorter, with 2 
- teeth, awnless. Inner valve with its edges turned in. 
_ Nectary as above. . fit 
Stam. Filaments 3, as above. 
Pisr. Germen small, angular, barren. Styles 2, like 
_ bristles... Swmmits none. ) 
_ Obs. In the Holeus lanatus, the blossom of the male flower 
‘only is awned, and in the H. mollis, both flotets are herma- 
Phrodite, the upper one only awned. 
ATTRA. PIII. fig. 15..Gertn. 1. 
Car. Husk 2 valves, containing 2 florets. Valves egg- 
‘p. SPear-shaped, equal, acute. . 5 At a 
BLOSS Guapdses-remmaiitne tore of the calyx. No rudi- 
Ment.of a flower betwixt the florets. 
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