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Badix fibrosa. Culmi solitarii, aut ope progemmationis basalis 

 2-3ni, longi 3-5 dm., apice trigoni. Folia plura cum § parte 

 culmi subsequilonga, in marginibus scabra. Involucri bractese 

 (in umbellis majoribus) usque ad 3-4 dm. longse, validae, in mar- 

 ginibus scabrae ; in umbellis interdum contractis vix 1 dm. longse, 

 debiliores. Umbella 1 dm. in diam. contracta, spicis densa, aut 

 usque ad 5-6 dm. in diam., radiis longis 2 dm., validis ; ochrese 

 usque ad 5 cm. longse, in altero latere foliaceo-appendiculatse. 

 Umbellulae divaricato-corymbosse ; bracteolse cum § parte umbel- 

 lulse ssepse sequilongse. Umbellula specie simplex sed revera 

 ssepius iterum divisa, i. e. radioli plus minus elongati, conspicue 

 ochreati, apice 1-paucispicigeri. Spiculse longse 5-25 mm., in 

 diam. 1-2 mm., 5-15-florse ; gluma ima lanceolata, setaceo-caudata. 

 Glumse distantes, parum imbricatse, arete adpressse; rbachilla 

 suberosa alternatim excavata; articulus unusquisque e nuce in 

 rhachilla abscondita cum gluma Boris superioris exstructus. 

 Glumse late ovatse, obtusse, minute (aut non) apiculatse, in dorso 

 rotundatse, rubro-striatse. Stamina 3 ; antherae muticse. Stylus 

 brevissimus ; rami 3, e gluma breviter exserti. Nux anguste 

 oblonga, cum § parte glumse sequilonga, utrinque breviter angus- 

 tata, nigra ; cellulse extimse quadratae, tenues, byalinse. 



Mr. Bentham in berb. Kew has treated this as a composite 

 species, widely spread in the tropics of both hemispheres, and I 

 followed him in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. p. 295. I made no notes 

 on this species at Kew, and therefore here at Calcutta can only 

 refer to that place for the synonymy and geography. The 

 description above is from the following : — 



Bengal: Furidpore {C. B. Clarice n. 7511, h. Calcutta). 



Pegu {Kurz n.2686, h. Calcutta). 



Borneo {Barber, h. Calcutta). 



150. C. MicHAUxiANirs {Torrey in Ann. Lyceum New York, iii. 

 p. 259) ; robusta, foliata ; umbella composita ; spicis cylindricis, 

 densis; spiculis rectangulatim patentibus, linearibus, subtereti- 

 bus, 6-floris ; glumis remotis, ovatis, obtusis. — Boeck. in Linncea, 

 xxxvi. p. 400. 



Eadix fibrosa. Culmus 4 dm. Folia lata 5 mm. cum culmo 

 fere sequilonga. Umbella 7-radiata, 8 dm. in diam. Nux cum § 

 parte glumse sequilonga, oblonga, subtrigona, curvata, luteo- 

 brunnea. 



Florida {Chapman, h. Calcutta), 



