This plant flowered in November last, with Mr. Bull, who 
kindly sent: me the specimen here figured; its anthers stain 
paper of a lilac colour; it has been called B. Fortunet, which 
I take to be a very different plant. 
Descr. A graceful tufted very glabrous slender species, 
six to twenty feet high. Culms as thick as the thumb; | 
internodes four to six inches long, shining, striped yellow 
and green; walls thick, tube slender. Leaves six to eight 
inches by three-quarters to one inch long and broad, linear- 
oblong or oblong-lanceolate from an obtuse unequal base, 
glabrous, finely ciliolate on the margin, rather glaucous 
beneath ; sheath slender, smooth, glabrous ; ligula short, 
truncate, ciliate. Panicle slender, sparingly branched; 
branches long, with distant fascicles of about three sessile 
spikelets, which are three-quarters inch long, narrowly elliptic- 
lanceolate, 3-5-flowered. Glumes and lower palee similar, 
acuminate, with many obscure nerves, smooth ; upper palea 
slender, 2-nerved, nerves ciliate. Scales 3, oblong, pilose. 
Stamens 6; anthers almost as long as the glumes, linear, 
apiculate, red purple, lilac when old. Ovary hairy, as is the 
very slender style; stigmas two—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Spikelet; 2, flower ; 3, scales, base of filaments, and pistil :—all 
magnified, 
