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Mr. D. Don’s Descriptions of Nine new Species 
Radix fibrosa. Culmi erecti, sesquipedales, acutè triquetri, 
striati, ferè omni parte læves, glauci. Folia linearia, plana, 
glauca, spithamza aut ultra, lineam lata, levia, ad apicem 
cariná margineque spinuloso-scabra. Bracteæ foliaceæ, 
culmi apicem longè excedentes: vagine nulle. Pedun- 
culi capillares, teretiusculi, parce spinulosi, pollicem v. 
sesquipollicem longi. Spice feminee 4, patulæ, filiformes, 
pedunculis longiores ; mascule solitariæ, filiformes, erecto, 
pedunculatæ, sesqui- v. 21 pollices longe. Glume fœmi- 
nee cuneatæ, scariosæ, fuscæ, dorso virides, apice acumine 
longo spinuloso terminate ; masculine cuneato-oblonge, 
scariosæ, fusca, apice truncate, nervo medio ultra ipsius 
squam: apicem in mucronem brevem scabrum producto. 
Arilli cuneato-orbiculati, compressi, mitissimi, papilloso- 
micantes, fuscescentes, adpresse imbricati, ore virente ob- 
tuso marginati, glumis breviores. 
9. C. alopecuroides, trigyna; vaginis nullis, spicis foemineis erec- 
tis cylindraceis subsessilibus: masculis solitariis, glumis 
ellipticis acuminatis superne scabris, arillis lanceolatis 
compressis lævibus apice truncatis emarginatis. 
Habitat in Nepali: alpibus. Wallich. y. 
Radix fibrosa. Culmi stricti, pedales v. sesquipedales, acute 
triquetri, striati: angulis alatis, lævibus, apicem versus 
scabris. Folia linearia, mucronata, erecta, lætè viridia, 
culmos fere longitudine æquantia, lineam v. sæpiùs ses- 
quilineam lata, striata, carinata, infernè inermia, versus 
apicem exasperata. Bractea foliaceæ, longissimæ, mucro- 
nate: vagine nulle. Spice feminee, Alopecuri v. Phlei 
quibusdam non parüm absimiles, erectæ, crassiusculæ, 
teretes, æquales, obtusæ, glauco-virentes, unciam sive 
nunc 
