20« GRAM!NEi£. 



MICROCHLOA. 



Spica unrWteraU*, inarticulata. Gluma uniflora, bivalvis sub- 



aequalis, acuta, membranacea. Perianthium inclusum, mu- 



ticum, villosum, bivalve, inversum. Stamina'2 — 3. £/y- 



li2. Stigmata plumosa. 



Gramen pusillum. Spica unica, falcata, fiorihus imlricatis. 



Obs. Perianthium intra glumam mversum indicat Microchloae 

 nexum cum Rottboelliis generibusque affinibus : accedit 

 quoque Knappiae Smith. cujus Periantbium certe bivalve, 

 sed non inversum. Rottboellia Thomaea Linti. suppl. quae 

 sui generis planta inter Microchloam et Hemarthriam lo- 

 canda, ob spicam bifariam, inarticulatam, flosculis ex- 

 cavationibus racheos immersis'; glumam univalvem, unt- 

 floram : et perianthium inversum, 



M. setacea. (T.) v. v. 



Nardus indica. L. 



Rottboellia setacea. v Roxb. corom. 2. p. 18. /. 132. 



ZOYSIA. Willd. in nov. act. nat. cur. beroU 3. 



G/tt*wauniflora, univalvis, complicata, cartilaginea, infra clausa, 

 dpice hinc genitalia exserens. Perianthium bivalve, inver- 

 §um, muticum, membranaceum. SquamulsE nullao hy- 

 pogynae. Stamina 3. Styli 2. Stigntata plumosa, 

 Gramen littmvle. Folia disticha, stricta, canaliculata, cdfln 

 vagince barlato. Spica racemosa, cequalis, Jiorilus im- 

 bricatis. 



Obs. Prope Rottboellias posui ob glumam univalvem, pe- 

 rianthium inversum et.inflorescentiam spicatam. 



Zoysia pungens. Willa\ in nov. act. nat. cur. lerol. 3. 



p. 440. (J.) v. v. 

 Agrostis Matrella. Linn. mant. 185. JVdld. sp. pl. l.p. 366. 



(fide speciminis in Herbario Linnaei.) 

 Matrella juncea. Pers. syn. 1 . p. 73. 



HIEROCHLOE. Gmel. sib. l. p. 101. 

 Disarrenum. Labill. nov. holt. 2. p. 83. t. 332. 



Gluma bivalvis, trifiora. Perianthia bivalvia : lateralia mas- 

 oula, triandra ; terminale hermaphroditum, diandrum. 



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