MR. M. P. EDGEWORTH—FLORULA MALLICA. 207 
que simplices vel ramosz ita ut tota planta panicula vasta videtur. 
Flores terni, congesti, bracteis scariose argenteis obtusis subglabris. 
Calyx 5-partitus, laciniis extus longe lanatis, duabus exterioribus 
majoribus scariosis, tribus interioribus herbaceis linea viridi vcl rubra 
notatis angustioribus. 
d Stamina in annulum connexa, staminodiis obtusis 2-dentatis colo- 
ratis, filamentis calyce longioribus purpureis antherisque purpurcis, 
polline luteo. Ovarium minutum, stylo nullo. 
€ Cupula staminifera 10-dentata, dentibus alternis (staminibus abortivis) 
acutis. Stylus ramis stigmatiferis 13 brevior. Ovarium 1-loculum. 
Semen lucidum. 
This species has been confused with Javanica, from which it 
differs in habit, leaves, and the minute character of the style and 
bracts. In Javanica the style is equal to the stigmatic branches, 
and the bracts are lanose, not glabrous. The true Javanica has 
short branches. Javanica has but few and rare gale flowers (as 
remarked by Forskahl, p. 170), whereas suaveolens has as many 
male plants as female; and Javanica also is not sweet-scented. 
They both grow in the same neighbourhood, so that there is plenty 
of opportunity to compare them. I therefore consider Æ. 3. Bovii 
is a distinct species rather than a variety as it has been considered 
by Webb in the Niger Flora, p. 173, and DC. Prod. xiii. p. 299, 
Panicum (Sect. xi. VIRGARIA, Trin. ap. Steud. Gram.) HWypaspicum. 
Foliis planis sparse pilosis, gluma exteriore 3-nervia, superiore 7-nervia. 
Rechnab Bar, 
Culmi subcompressi, geniculati, nodique glabri. Vagina laxa, glabra, 
os versus ciliata, ligula minute ciliato-membranacea. Folia plana, 
sparse pilosa, margine minutissime serrulata, utrinque 3-nervia, spe 
purpurascentia. Panicule laxæ, ovate, pedunculo compressiusculo 
filiformi, ramis ramulisque capillaribus undulatis scabro-setosis. Lo- 
custæ ovoidez, solitariz,, longe pedicellatze. Gluma exterior flosculo 
plus duplo brevior late ovata, acuta, trinervia. Gluma superior 7- 
nervia, breviter mucronata. Flosculi inferioris palea inferne herbacea, 
semi-7-nervia, breviter mucronata; palea superne hyalina, elliptica, 
acutiuscula, integra. 
% Floris superioris pale levissimze, mutice. Lodicule majuscule, 
ovario longiores, biloba, carnose. Ovarium lave. Styli 2, divergen- 
tes. Stigma purpureum. Stamina vix exserta. Antheræ fusca. 
This differs from the cultivated miliare, Lam. (no. 483 in Steud. 
Gram. p. 73) in the glumes. The nerves in the lower are much 
stronger than any in this section that T have observed, and shorter. 
The upper are 7-, not 9-13-nerved. From coloratum, Linn. (no. 478. 
ib.) it differs in the absence of the raised glands from which the 
