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spathulatis dorso obtuse carinatis seapo multo longioribus trinerviis, 
nervis 2 marginalibus, intermedio penninervio, petiolis teretibus basi 
vaginantibus folio duplo longioribus, scapo erecto simplici tereti, 
apice obtuse trigono florifero, floribus verticillatis breve pedicellatis 
inconspicuis inferioribus feemineis superioribus masculis 3-andris. 
Radix fibrosa. Folia glabra, cum petiolo 9-12 poll. longa, lamina 4—5 
lin. lata. Scapus 5—6 poll. altus, apice floriferus, bracteatus, dracteis 
connatis, vaginantibus, obtusis. ores feminei in verticillo unico 
inferiore, masculi supra pluri verticillati, omnes plerumque in verti- 
cillo terni. Masc. Perigonium 6-partitum duplici serie, foliola 3, ex- 
teriora ovato-rotundata, interiora non petaloidea, minora linearia, 
truncata, omnia sub anthesi patentia. Stamina 3, sepalis exteriori- 
bus opposita, axthere subextrorse, Jilamenta brevia, basi valde in- 
crassata, in disco glandule ires rotundate. Fam. Perigonium om- 
nino masculino simile, in disco ovaria 3, libera, obovata, sessilia, 
cum glandulis 3 subulatis bractezeformibus alternantia. Stigmata 
magna, reniformia.—Crescit in aquosis prov. Malwan ; ff. Aug. 
(To be continued.) 
Extracts from the private Letters of Dr. J. D. Hooker, written during a 
3 Botanical Mission to INDIA. 
DaRJEELING TO ToNGLO. 
(Continued from p. 91.) 
Among shrubby plants, the dwarf Bamboo was the most abundant, 
forming little groves, or cane-jungles, of great elegance and beauty. 
The tribe (for there are several), with which I almost tire you, would 
seem, by its bulk and abundance, to make up for the strange paucity 
of other Grasses on these mountains. This is about their upper limit, 
and they are succeeded in the alpine, or upper, region of the Himalaya 
by other and more northern Gzaminez. The culms of the present 
species are scarcely broader than the thumb, stiff and erect ; they — = 
stand about a span apart, and are 6-8 feet high. Amongst them — ox 
grew a standard Dog-rose, of scanty dull green foliage, but flowering _ ee 
copiously, white and inodorous, 8-10 feet high with. si ee >a 
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