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as is distinctly shown by its well preserved pollen masses. 
It is equally certain that no Asiatic genus of that part of the 
Orchidaceous order will contain it. The only doubt that I 
entertain respecting it is, whether to place it in Barkeria 
or Broughtonia. The habit is more that of the former than 
of the latter; but it has the adnate spur belonging to the 
labellum of Broughtonia, and it has not, as far as I can dis- 
cover, the peculiarly deflexed dorsal sepal of Barkeria. Its 
lip too is distictly cucullate after the manner of a Lelia. 
(Lindley.) 
Smilax glabra Roxb. The younger leaves are glaucous 
underneath, the lower older leaves are broader and not 
glaucous. 
Smilax sp. in leaf only. 
Dianella ensifolia Ait. Schult. Syst. 7. 349 
Asparagus falcatus Linn. 
Eriocaulon Cantoniensis Hook. et Arn. My specimens are 
young, but are evidently very near to E. Wailichianum, 
Mart. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. 3. 26. t. 249. The E. Cantonien- 
sis is not taken up by Künth either asa species or a synonym. 
Lepidosperma Chinense Nees. These specimens agree 
better with the character piven by Hooker and Arnott, (Bot. 
Beech. 228) within brackets, than with Nees’s decription. 
The whole spike is from 14 to 2 inches long. The lower 
partial spikes, which are sessile or very shortly peduncled, 
consist of several smaller spikes, and each of these again of 
one, two, or three spikelets. In each spikelet I find one, 
two, or three flowers, the upper one always abortive, the 
next one hermaphrodite, and there is often a third male 
. flower below it, with three stamens like the hermaphrodite 
one. The hypogynous scales are connected into a white, 
almost bony, perigynium, unequally and very sharply 5-6 
toothed. 
Seleria Chinensis Künth. Enum. 2. 357. S. ciliaris, Nees, 
non Mich. 
Carex ramosa Nees. 
Rottboelliæ ? sp., in an imperfect state. 
Bambusa sp. not in flower. 
