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nata, basi parum attenuate, subcoriacea, integerrima, glabra, subtus 

 pallidiora, venis secundariis transversis parallelis, numerosis, superne 

 incurvantibus. Pedunculi axillares vel foliorum abortione extra-axil- 

 lares et terminates, sub-ternatim verticillati, petiolis longiores superne 

 di-tri-chotomi. Flores breviter pedicellati bracteis blnis suffulti, dense 

 corymbosimque dispositi. Calyx parvus 5-partitus. Corolla semiun- 

 cialis fauce parum inflata, limbo quinquifido. Stamina o, antheris 

 acuto-ovatis, nlamentis brevibus. Pistillum e carpellis duobus in ova- 

 rium biloculare primum accretis, subito in drupellas duas sex ovulatas 

 segregans ; ovulis 2 — 4 solummodo maturascentibus ? 



16. Panicum sanguinale, var. ?. — I quote this species with 

 doubt, because the only specimen has the spikes half starved 

 and the spikelets not fully matured. It has much the habit 

 of P. pruriens of Trinius Gram. I cones, with a trailing stem 

 of four feet, but the glumes have the relative proportions 

 ascribed to P. sanguinale, and the margins of the superior one 

 are very hirsute. There are thirteen spikelets, but three or 

 four towards the summit are quite abortive. They are ar- 

 ranged in two whorls of four in each ; one is below the lowest 

 whorl, and the other four are scattered between the two 

 whorls. As Decaisne gives P. sanguinale as a Timor plant, 

 the present may the more probably be only a form of this. 



17. Stenotaphrum lepturoide. Plate XII. 



Spiculis subduabus alternatim dispositis,- una rachi sessili, altera" pedun- 



culata, foliis lanceolatis lineari-lanceolatisque. 

 Mr. Brown showed me a single specimen of this grass among 

 Forster's specimens of Lepturus repens in the British Mu- 

 seum, and the general resemblance which it may be consi- 

 dered to bear to that plant has induced me to give it the spe- 

 cific name of lepturoide. It departs from the generic charac- 

 ter of Stenotaphrum, given in Kunth's Agrostographia, in not 

 having the spikelets arranged unilaterally, and in the rachis 

 of the spike being terete or very nearly so ; but in all essen- 

 tial points it is truly a Stenotaphrum, as the following detailed 

 description will be sufficient to show. 



Culmi pedales et ultra, ramosi, procumbentes vel superne solummodo 

 ascendentes, plerumque fertiles, glabri, compressi, nodis brunneis. 

 Folia lanceolata vel lineari-lanceolata, acuta, plana, nervis 9 subpromi- 

 nulioribus, intermedio subtus validiore, membranaceo-rigida, utrinque 

 glabra, marginibus obsolete scabriusculis, 1 — 2 poll, longa, l^ — 3 lin. 

 lata. Vaginae ad basiin fissas, marginibus primum ciliato-pilosis, ore 

 pilosiore, unipollicarcs, plerumque solutao. Ligulre obsoletse, vel in 

 lacinias breves resolutie. Spicoe in apice ramorum solitaria?, basi e 



