6o Dr. SwAKTz's Bofatiical Hi/lory 



involute; fubaquales 1. interiore pauUo majore, infimabafi 



exclfa. 

 Valvuic interiores glabrx, mutics. Exterior lato-lanceolata, 



retufa, carinata, carina fubciliata, breviflime acuminata; 



interior minor, acuta, apice emarginata, tenera, alba, nitens. 

 Tubercidum minutiflimum ad bafin inter valvulas interiores 



corolla:, feffile. 

 NeSlarii petala oblonga, bafi carnofa lutea, fuperne latiora, 



retufa, margine crcnulata, albida, radiato-venofa. 

 Filamenta 6, filiformia, brevia. Anihera; lineares, flav^, 



utrinque bifida, bafi obtufs, apice extrorfum polliniferae. 

 Germen ovatum. Styli duo, lati, erecli, contigui. Stigmata 



longa, albida, est. conformia. 



If the preceding defcrved the appellation of longiflora^ this alfo 

 merits the name of giganteay being the largeft known of its genus, 

 and having the ajipearance of a reed. . The flowers are in like man- 

 ner proportionally large, and have, on minute inquiry, a ftridt 

 agreement with the generic charatSter. They can by no means be 

 united with the Melica, though the plant, as to the ramification and 

 fhape of the panicle, has fome refemblance to the M. ciliata. It 

 cannot at all be compared with the Airee^ becaufe it has neither a 

 calyx bijiorus nor the habit of them. The interior corolline valves 

 have probably been miftaken for the fuperfluous floret. The diffe- 

 rent colour and figure of the arljla fuggefts the idea of fuch a floret 

 more than in the other fpecies, notvvithflanding its Ihortnefs. The 

 calycine glumes are ftained with purple or brown, and are two- 

 thii-ds the length of the corolla, which ^abounds with ftiining hairs. 



9. EHRHARTA bulbofa. 



E. glunais coroll. exterioribus obovatis cmarginatis rugofis arifiatis; 

 panjcula firaplici laxa. 



F.. bulbofa^ 



