96 VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE. 
æquales, oblongo-lanceolatæ, glaberrimæ, apice angustatæ, truncatæ, 
trinerviæ vel subbinerviæ, nervo medio glumæ inferioris sub apice eva- 
-nescente. FLoscuzr duo:1Nrerior neuter, univalvis, paleà lanceolatà, 
integrá, glumis paululàm breviore, uninerviá; superior bivalvis, herma- 
phroditus; Parr EXTERIOR lanceolata, uninervia, longè aristata , aristá 
rectà, rigidà, glumis dupló longiore; PALEA INTERIOR brevior, lanceolata, 
plana, subbidentata. SrAwiNA tria, antheris oblongis, inclusis. SQUAMULÆ 
duæ truncatæ (ex clar. Neés; in speciminibus meis frustrà quaesivi). Ova- 
Run oblongum. Sryrı basi approximati. Sricmara elongata, cylindrica, 
undique papillosa. 
Loc. : L'ile Sainte-Catherine, au Brésil. 
2. ERIANTHUS FLORIDULUS. 
E. culmo vaginis foliisque glaberrimis , ligulà tantüm pilosà; 
foliis planis, linearibus, latis, margine asperis; paniculà effusà, 
flexuosà, spicis elongatis, simplicibus , semi-verticillatis, rachi- 
bus pedicellisque glabris; spiculis acutis, distantibus, gla- 
berrimis, pilis raris involucelli vix superatis; aristà subgeni- 
culatà, spiculis dupló longiore. 
Saccharum floridulum, Lai, Sert. austro-caled., p. 13, 
tab. 18. 
Curaus erectus, glaberrimus, etiam ad nodos, crassitudine pennæ an- 
serinæ æqualis. Vacınæ glaberrimæ, striatæ, 8-12 pollicares; ligula bre- 
vis, membranacea , truncata, pilisque externé vestita. Forra plana, ner- 
vosa, pollice lata, basi vix angustata, ad ligulam cartilaginea margineque 
undulata aspera, nervo medio crasso albido. PanicuLA ovata, laxa, rachi 
glabro, ramis primariis é basi divisis in ramulis simplicibus subsemi- 
verticillatis, elongatis, gracilibus, flexuosis, spicatis, articulatis; spiculis 
distantibus, ad articulos geminatis vel inferiüs ternis, alterá sessili, al- 
terá vel duobus pedicellatis, pedicello articulis racheos breviore, articu- 
lis difficilé solubilibus; rachis pedicellique glabri; trigoni, angulis vix pu- 
bescentibus. INvoLucELLUM, pilis tenuissimis spiculà pauld longioribus, 
