ISCHZMUM. 91 
 scabraque, interior carinata l-venia, secus carina scabra, 
acuta. 
Palea interior ad basin fere usqueve bipartita, sinu aris- 
tam longissimam, medium supra scabra gerenti. Interior, in- 
tegra membranaceo-hyalina, semen involvens, enervis. Potius 
pericarpium oblongum angustum, Embryo, pales aristate 
opposit. 
Flores tabescentes ad gluma exteriore redact gluma hispi- 
da, apice aristata. 
Excavationum margines membranacei ciliat ; flores articulati 
saltem hermphrodit. Situs palearum оро, inversus: palea 
aristata nempe glume interior. 
Ex charac. acced. videtur I. fragili, Br. Prodr. 61, (205). 
Notu dignum ob suppressionem, floscule exterioris floris 
sessilis, et flores stipitatus /erminalis binus et ob corum mag- 
nam redactionem. 
In arenosis, Bogapanee : November 5th, 1835. It. Ass. 200. 
2. Ischemum, Erectum 4-5 pedale, fol. pubescentibus, spicis 
conjugatis paniculatis, rubescentibus. 
Inter Nunklow et Nowgoung : November 18th, 1835. It. Ass. 
276. 
9. Ischemum, Culmis ramosis decumbentibus, ligulis brun- 
neis pilosis. spicis compressis patentissimum secundis race- 
mosi dipositis. 7 
Nunklow et Nowgong : November 18th, 1835. It. Ass. 271. 
4. Ischemum, Pl. CXLVIII. Fig. I. 
Gramen decumbens, basi radicans, culmis spithameis, as- 
cendentibus, fol. lineari-lanceolat. acuta, utrinque pubescen- 
tia, basi pilis longis hispida ciliataque, vaginæ laxiusculæ, li- 
gule, subintegræ truncate, pilose 
Spiceæ geminatæ, altera infima, ‘asin florifere altera prio- 
