glass. The plant figured was raised from seed communicated 

 by Dr. de Regel from the Imperial Botanical Gardens of 

 St. Petersburg. 



Descr. A tall annual. Leaves all radical, six to eight 

 inches long, membranous, pale green, oblanceolate, obtuse, 

 mucronate by the excurrent nerve, narrowed into a winged 

 or naked petiole, midrib broad, nerves very slender. Scape 

 three to five feet high, stout, obtusely angled and grooved, 

 green, glabrous below, hairy above, bearing one very long 

 terminal drooping spike a foot long or less, and several 

 distant lateral ones four to six inches long. Splices sessile or 

 nearly so, cylindric, obtuse, one-third to nearly one-half of an 

 inch in diameter; rachis pubescent; flowers subsessile, one- 

 sixth of an inch long, most densely crowded, rose-coloured, 

 disposed in two- to three-flowered sessile bracteate spikelets, 

 bracts and bracteoles scarious with excurrent nerves, 

 shorter than the calyx. Calyx-tube narrow, hairy at the 

 base ; lobes triangular, awned. Corolla-tube twice as long 

 as the calyx, lobes rounded or very broadly oblong. 

 Stamens exserted. Styles capillary. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Reduced sketch of the whole plant ; 2, leaves, and 3, portions of inflores- 

 cence cf the natural size; 4, flower and bracts; 5 and 6, stamens; 7, pistil: 

 all enlarged. 



