PLATE XVIII. 



A and B, the largest and the smallest plants respectively of Fimbristylis (Oncost yl is) 

 neglecta, in the Kew Herbarium, collected by Dr. Burchell ; both natural size. 



Figure 1. — A section of a leaf. 



2. — A cluster of spikelets. 



3. — A single spikelet. 



4. — A glume. 



5. — A very young flower. 



6. — A flower further advanced. 



7. — A nut : all enlarged. 



In Burchell's manuscript notes the spikelets of this plant are described as about 

 6-flowered, which was doubtless correct, for some of his specimens, from which the lower 

 flowers have mostly fallen away, probably bore quite as many as six flowers in each 

 spikelet. 



