^EXand. MONOG. 712. Bambufa, DIGYNIA. 713. 5S3 
Culms flexuous; panicles compound, fpiked, rigid, moftly 
folitary, 
Otaheite. Forji. prodr. 1 59 * 2. f. 244. 
712. B AMBUS A. Scales 3, covering the fpikelets 
which are about 5 -flowered: calyx o-. coral a 2- 
valved glume: fiyU bifid : Jeed i. Bamhoo. 
Panicle branched, divaricate. 
Arundo Bambos. Sp-pl. 120. Rheed. MaL i»/. 25. r* 16, 
Indies. Culm 40 feet high, finiple, Ihining, hollow: haws fmall, 
lanceolate, on round petioles : fpikelets oblong, imbricate. 
Spike terminal, fimple, whorled. 
Indies, Rumph.atnb. 4./. l. f. i. Arundo, 
Leaves not rounded at the bafe, as in the laft, 
ORDER II. DIGYNIA: i fiy^es. 
713. EHRHARTA. Calyx-, glume 2-valved, i- 
flowered : corol ; glume double, each of them 2- 
valved, the outer-one with a femilunar cavity 
each fide at the bafe for the reception of the inner- 
one. 
Ohf. Since the firll part of this volume was printed oft, this 
Genus has been completely elucidated by Dr, Swartz in the 
6th volume of the Linnean Tranfadlions, and is found to 
contain 4 fpecies which are already deferibed (p. 146, * 47 ) 
under the Genus Mclica ; viz. gigantea, genic-ulata, ra~ 
mofa, capenfes. They are therefore to be erafed. 
A. Aivnhfs. 
Outer-glumes of the corol wrinkled, obtufe, awnlefs : pa- 
nicle ftmple, lax ; culm undivided ; leaves with a car- 
tilaginous curled margin. 
Eh. cartilaginea. Smith ic.iued. z. t. Willd. 
Eh. capenfis. All. Holm. 1779. 216. f. 8. Linn, fuppl. 
The Cape, Svsartx Linn- Tran/, vi. p. 44. t, 3. t. 
Ca/nj ereft, leafy : fion.iiers large, drooping, feiraitar-fhaped. 
Outer-glumes of the corols glabrous, fomewhat wrinkled, 
obtufe: panicle fomewhat branched, leaning one way: 
culm nightly divided. 
The Cape. Smith ic i t. g. Linn. Tran/ vi. t. 3./. 2, 
, Culms tufted, decumbent below, leafy : leaves linear-lanceolate, 
\ig roughifti at the edge : panicles terminal, las. 
Outer-glumes of the corols rough, retufe: panicle contrac- 
ted : culm very much branched and rigid. 
Mclica 
