PASPALUM. 
1. Paspalam. Decumbens, culmis omnino vaginis vestitis, 
ligulis obsoletis. -Fol. linearib. acutis subtus glaucescen- 
tibus: inflorescentia terminalis, spicis 3-4, secundis, alter- 
nantibus multi floris. 
Rachis spicarum alata, inferne flores gerens. Flores al- 
ternantes, distichi adpressi, rachi pedicellis brevibus affixi. 
Gluma 1 flora, bivalvis, membranacea, mutica; ratione racheos 
inversa. Interior (exterior floris) convexa, major, 5 nervis; ex- 
terior (interior) plana 5 nervis. 
Pale 2, chartacec muticez exterior (interior) convexa, 5 
nervis, interior (exterior) inclusa, binervis. 
Lodicule 2. Stamina 3. Styli, 2. Stigmata plumosa. Pe- 
ricarp. paleis induratis, glabris lineatim punctulatis, inclusum. 
(Caryopsis) ab his brunneum, dimidiato-orbiculare, hamis- 
pheericum, membranaceum brunnescens. Embryo dorsalis, 
palee exteriori opposit., lodiculis alternant. 
Mr. Brown in his Prodr. 1-183 (44) describes the structure 
as above, not overlooking at the same time, its great affinity 
with Panicum. Kunth Agr, 1-40 describes it in conformity 
perhaps with Mr. Brown’s views, and hence he gives it as 
generally with one (interior) glume, in which case what I 
have called the outer glume, becomes the outer palea of a 
neuter flower, exactly as in Panicum ciliare p. 32 of this 
ok. 
Partium situs et alternatio. Pl. CKXXIX. Fig. 111. 
a. Gluma inferior exterior (interior.) 
b, ,, interior (exterior.) 
c. Palea exterior. 
d. ,, interior vel secundum, Kunth. - 
b. Gluma singula (interior.) 
a. Palea exterior floris exterioris neutrius. 
