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Tas. 5331. 
ANOMOCHLOA. maranrtorpEa. 
Maranta-like Anomochloa. 
Nat. Ord. GRAMINEZ.—TETRANDRIA MonoGyniIa. 
Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi. Spicule uniflore, in axillis bractearum 
spice composite ternatim fasciculatee (cymis scorpioideis abbreviate). Glume 
nulle. Palee due, carinate, imparinervie, alterne, florem terminalem invol- 
ventes ; inferior membranacea, nervosa; superior crassior, subcrustacea, margi- 
nibus ante adpressis, in appendice lineari canaliculato obtuso desinente. Sgua- 
mule nulle ; discus aut annulus piloso-fimbriatus staminum basi cingens. Sfa- 
mina 4, equalia et zque distantia. Ovarium oblongum, obliquum ; stylus graci- 
lis ; stigma indivisum, filiforme, exsertum, breve, papillosum. Caryopsis oblonga, 
palea superiori indurata, inclusa ; perispermo farinoso ; embryone parvo, basilari 
oblique scutelliformi.—Gramen (Brasiliense) humile, foliis petiolatis, vagina laxa 
truncata, limbo distincto lato, nervis parallelis. Brongn. 
ANOMOCHLOA marantoidea. 
ANOMOCHLOA marantoidea. Brongn. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3. v. 16. p. 368. tab, 23. 
In the 5831 figures of plants given in this Magazine, it must 
be confessed the Grasses are not fairly represented. They are 
too uniform in aspect to be generally favourites with cultivators 
in ornamental gardens. Briza maxima, however, 18 an excep- 
tion, and it finds a place at our Tab. 337; and Coix Lachryma, 
or “ Job’s Tears,” Tab. 479, on account of the curious structure 
of its flowers. The Grass we now figure may surely come under 
the latter category. In its habit it resembles some Maranta- 
ceous plant rather than a Grass, and in the number of its sta- 
mens (four) it departs from the ternary arrangement so prevalent 
among Grasses, and these fovr are so regularly arranged as to 
indicate no abortive reduction, as in the well-known instance 
of our Sweet-scented Vernal Grass (Authovanthum odoratum), 
where the number is reduced to two, as is evident by the va- 
cant space where the third should be. M. Brongniart has given. 
a full and admirable description of this plant in the ‘ Annales, 
AuGUST Ist, 1862. 
