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membranaceis majusculis ovato- lanceolatis carinato - convexis 
acutiusenlis mutieis v. interdum mucronnlatis ferrugineis v. 
brunneis; caryopsi 1?/,—13/, lin. longa obovato-orbiculata len- 
ticuları submarginata trausversim rugulosa castanea v. fus- 
cescente nitidula; rostro caryopse subaeqwilongo conico satis 
compresso oento v. ohtnso viridi-canescente (juventute albido), 
basi vix parum soluto; setis rostro v. parum brevioribns v. 
longiorihus; stylo exserto profunde bifido. 
R. chinensis Nees et Meyen in Herb. Nees. 
China (Meyen.) India orient.: Sikkim, alt, 7--- 10,000 
ped. (forma tenuis); mont. Khasia, alt. 4—6000 ped. (Hook 
et Thoms.) Ceylona (Thvait., coll. ». 677). 
73. BR. cyımosa Nutt. 
Glauco-viridis; radice fihrosa tenui; culmis erectis 3/,- - 2 
ped. alt, pennam corvinam crassis v. filiformibas, triangulis, 
bası multifoliatis; foliis rigidis v. mollioribus acuminatis ea- 
vinato-planis (sieeis margiuibus subundulatis) 11/, — 3/4 lin. 
lat., 12—-2 poll. long., apice marginibus minutissime dentatis, 
illis eulmeis elongatis quam internodia multo longiorihms; 
corymbis 2—4 snbapproximatis: terminali suhdecomposito 
4—5-ramoso quam bractea longiore, pollicem cire. alto, ramis 
setaceis valde inaequalibus, intermedio perbrevi, reliquis3— Yin. 
long.; lateralibus sabcompositis illo terminali multo minorihus, 
subbreviter peduneulatis, foliis suis multo brevioribus; spieulis 
2—-3 in ramulorum apice glomeratim confertis 12/, Kn. longis 
ellipsoideis, maturis sul'glohoso-ovatis obtusis; squamis rigi- 
dis concavis ferrugineis nitidulis, binis inferiorum orbiculato- 
ovatis infra apicem emarginulalum mueronatis, quarta et 
quinta orbienlato-ovatis obtusis mulieis, v. raro late oblongis 
breviterque mucronatis, hermaphroditis, utrague saepius Tertili, 
interioribus imperfectis; caryopsi parva (°/, Tin. longa) 
