32 APPENDIX. 



acuta ; superiore obovata, obtusissima, inferiore duplo latiore, paulo longiore. Perianthia 

 akerna, distincta. Valvida inferior olx)vato-oblonga, obtusissima, concava, quinquinervis, 

 extu<? pube brevissima appressa conspersa, apice marginibusque ab apice ad medium albis, 

 scariosis, nervis omnibus infra apicem desinentibus, medio in mucronulum brevissimum, niar- 

 gf&fd valvulie vix attingentem producto. Valvida superior longitudine fere inferioris, ma- 

 j'ii-ste Bttustior, eliiptii'o-lanceolata, apice profunde emarginato, lateribus induplicatis, 

 dinervis, nervis brevissime ciliat.is, singulis bisctis, -Wi-v lateralibus, per paria oppositis, du& 

 inferiores infra medium valvule orte, subulato-hTiformes, stricte, modice patentes, den- 

 ticulate, longitudine eirciter dimidii totius valvulae ; due SUperiores paulo supra medium 

 valvute ortum diiccntcs, brevissima.', denticulate, mucroniformes, altera quandoque obsoleta. 

 Lodiculee 2, collaterals, approximate, brevissimse, truncate, basi leviter cobserentes, sed 

 absque laesione separandae. Stamina 3, filamentis capillaribus, antberis linearibus ntrinque 

 .seniibi/idis. Ovarium ovatum, imberbc. Styli 2, glabri. Stigmata laxe plumosa, hyalina, 

 rami-; deiiticulatis, siiperioribn.s vix brevioribus. Caryopsis libera, lateraliter compressa, 

 ventre aiifrtisto-lineari, lev iter canaliculato, axi longituclinaliter saturatiore. Embryo cary- 

 opeide Iriplo brevior. 



Qbt. Duphx varietas. 



a. .-laiiot, subspithamea, anther strannneis. Tab. D. f. 1—7. 



(i. 3-4-uneialis, anthcris purpuras. Tab. D. f. 8—10. 



The specific- name is given in honour of Captain Edward Sabine, in whose- herbarium, the 

 most extensive formed in the voyage, 



EXPLICATIO Tabul.e 1). 

 viiikii. 1. Varietatis *. planta magnitudmc naturali. 2. ejusd. locusta 



purti.me rachcos nuijris aucta. !i. perianthimn elausiun articulo racheos 

 t, pariter auetum. 5. valvula superior periantliii facie visa 

 pollen. 7. hWnliis pmanthio orbatus exhibens stamina pistill um et 

 it 5. 8. Vur. 0. plants mag. natur. {). ejusd. locusta cum pedunculo 

 10. perianthimn expansion genitalia et lodiculanim alter exhibens ad 



1. id. 



DFPONTIA. 



<!1VI! - ( ; lv '"'"'"" s »'»»M|uivnlvis, scariosa, concava, mutioa, locustam 2-3-floram sub- 

 ivqiians. Vrrutnthi.i mutica, scariosa, (basi barbata,) altero pedicellato ; valvule integris, 

 inlenore concava. Lo<liad<r<>. Or.iriu,,, imberbe. Stigmata subsessilia. Caryopsis- - - . 



(..amen »M,rmn, return. Folia linmria, plana, vaginis semijissis, basi Integra 

 Pamela .nnph-r, ronrctata, fas,;, ,; pwpurascenti varia, pedicellis cum locustis continvis, 

 Vriantfitis separatim solubilibus. 



