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alter eo plus triplo excedens. Gluma i. lanceolata acuminata, 
cum nervis tribus validis, quorum mediano scabridulo, et tribus 
incompletis instructa, 3 lin. longa; gl. ii. primo æquans et ei 
similis, 5-nervis; gl. iii. ovata, 9-nervis cum nervulis 4 debilus 
superadditis, 12 lin. longa, florem d celans; gl. iv. oblonga, 
llin. longa, apiee in setam debilem imperfectam 3 lin. longam 
cum setulis lateralibus duabus prolongata. 
KwawaruNa (Ford, 201, 212 !), Lofaushan (Ford, 125 !). 
Herb. Kew. 
Approaches .4. setosa, from which it is distinguished by its 
larger panicle and subequal multinerved barren glumes. 
Tribe ZovsrE x. 
1. Tragus racemosus, Scop. Introd. p. 73; Franchet, Pl. 
David. i. p. 827; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. p. 97. 
Tragus tcheliensis, Debeaux, FI. Tientsin, p. 48. 
Lappago racemosa, Honck. Syn. i. p. 440; Trin, in Bunge, Enum. 
Pl. Chin. Bor. p. 10. 
Cenchrus racemosus, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1049; Staunton, Embass. Chin. 
ii. p. 346. 
Cum: Pechili (Staunton!), Jehol (David, 2069!), Peking 
(Williams, in herb. Hance, 10522! Bushell!) ; Suessi: Kaolin- 
sien (Hugh!). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
Warmer parts of both hemispheres. 
1. Perotis latifolia, Ait. Hort. Kew. i. p. 85; Nees, in Nov. 
Act. Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. i. (1843) p. 202; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. và. p. 98; A. Henry, in Trans. Asiat. Soc. Jap. xxiv. Suppl. 
(1896) p. 107. 
Perotis longiflora, Nees, in Hook. $ Arn. Bot. Beechey's Voy. p. 247 ; 
Hance, in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xii. (1873) p. 133. 
Perotis patula, Nees, ex Steud. Nom. ed. 2, ii. p. 306. 
Saccharum spicatum, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 54. 
Alopecurus hordeiformis, Zour. FI. Cochinch. p. 60. 
Foxten: Amoy (Hance, 1384 in part!); Formosa: Takow 
spit (A. Henry, 1043, 1110!); Kwanetuna: Macao (Hance, 
1384 in part! Fachell, 38!), Pakhoi (Playfair, 151!); Hoxe- 
KONG (Hance, 1384 in part! Wright!); Curxa: without locality 
(Fortune, 89! Meyen!). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. ` 
Tropical Asia and Africa. 
