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in which other parts of the apparatus are supplied in order to render 

 it available for its important uses, and the various modifications in 

 its construction occurring among the different tribes. He adds also 

 9. particular description of the arrows and quivers in use among 

 several of the native tribes. 



To this paper was appended the following note by John Joseph 

 Bennett, Esq. F.L.S. 



" Mr. Schomburgk having placed in my hands specimens of the 

 grass which forms the subject of his communication, with a request 

 that (if I should find it to be unpublished) I would describe it, I 

 consulted the publications of Nees von Esenbeck and Kunth, and 

 was at first strongly inclined to suspect that it was identical 

 with the Arundinaria verticillata of those authors ; but a subsequent 

 examination has satisfied me that it is a distinct species of that 

 genus. I have had no opportunity of comparing it with specimens 

 oi A. verticillata, but it differs from the descriptions of that species, 

 given by the two eminent botanists above named, in the following 

 particulars. Its leaves are linear, instead of lanceolate, and smooth 

 on both surfaces, instead of scabrous ; the mouth of their sheaths 

 is furnished on either side of the articulation of the leaf with a fringe 

 of long rigid setae, which are not mentioned as occurring in A. verti- 

 cillata ; its locustse are sessile, instead of being pedicelled ; and the 

 hypogynous scales are lanceolate and acute, instead of obovate and 

 obtuse. The following character will therefore serve to distinguish 



the species : — 



Arundinaria Sckomburgkii. 



A . foliis linearibus acuminatis Isevibus ; vaginarum ore utrinque longS 

 setoso, spica simplici pauciflora, locustis sessilibus, squamulis hypogynis 

 lanceolatis acutis." 



January 21, 1840. 



Mr. Forster, V.P., in the Chair. 



Mr. Hyde Clarke, of Great Ormond Street, and James Rankine, 

 M.D., of Ayr, were elected Fellows. 



Mr. Hewett Cottrell Watson, F.L.S. , exhibited specimens of Ca- 

 rum Bulbocastanum discovered by Mr. W. H. Coleman, near Cherry 

 Hinton, Cambridgeshire, and of Seseli Libanotis gathered by the 

 same in a Dean west of the river Cuckmere, near Seaford, Sussex, 

 being the first time it has been observed in that county. 



