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Mmargines versus, et ad os pilosa, oii glabrae, elon 
summa lamina destituta; ligulae ad marginem ciliolat 
redactae; laminae subsetaceae, steradiles evita com sins: 
canaliculatae, ad 20 cm. longae, ad 075 mm. latae, ligulam 
versus pilosae, praeter apicem scaberulum laeves, nervoso- 
striatae. Panicula angustissima, contracta, ad 9 cm. longa; 
rhachis gracilis — rami glabri laevesque, hice ad nodos 
solitarii vel interdum 3—4-tim verticillati, tenuiter filiformes 
5-20 cm. longi, ects, apice paulo incrassato albido-ciliato; 
edicelli filiformes, glabri, ad 4°5 mm. longi. mecula sessilis 
lanesaiiis eolata, acuminata, pallida, labra, 8 mm. longa; 
eallus perbrevis, obtusus, barbatus, pilis antice ad 2 mm. longis. 
umae aequales; inferior mairg ines versus a medio sursum 
aculeolata, dorso praeter apicem asperum laevissima, nervis 
tenuissimis intracarindlibus 5, extracarinalibus utrinque 2; 
superior in carina superne aspera, nervis 6-7, margine ciliata 
Valva vihoeett inferioris 6-7 mm. longa, tota hyalina, 2-nervis, 
reverse ciliata, superioris” ee aaaeoan elliptico-lanceolata, acuta, 
45 mm. longa, mutica, in dorso anger chartacea, caeterum 
hyalina, ultra medium tenuissime rvis, abhinc 1-nervis. 
Valvula phyllis 2 a basi liberis Thearl-ablougss ciliatis, 2-5 mm. 
longis l-nervibus substituta. Lodiculae carnosae, late cuneatae. 
Stamina? Stigmata plumo ulo supro basin lateraliter 
exserta. Spiculae pedtcsllatad 3, pallidae, anguste lanceolatae, 
acutae, 8 mm. longae. umae aequales, glabrae, inferior 
circiter 9-nervis, superior 3—5-nervis. Valva inferior mm. 
superior 5 mm. longa, hacce tota hyalina, 3-nervis. Antherae 2:5 
mm. longae. 
Nort Avstrauia. Port Darwin, Schultz 661. 
The replacement of the valvule by two l-nerved phylla is 
very unusual and suggests some anomaly in the development of 
the spikelets. These appear, however, perfectly healthy in 
every coaseet, and are of the usual gryllus-type, except for the 
absence of an awn in the upper floret whose value is, moreover, 
ceous over a narrow portion of the bac But even if 
these peculiarities of the sessile spikelets should prove to be 
anomalous, the structure of the leaf-blade alone would suffice 
to distinguish this species from all the other — which are 
immediately allied to Chrysopogon Gryllus, Trin 
IV.—THE BOTANIC nents KADUNA. 
been introduced from Dominica and Trinidad and been pro- 
pagated successfully by grafting and budding. 
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