68 GRAMINEA. 
Flos interior hermaphrodit. Palez 2, interior quoad axes 
racheos exterior quoad axes floris vel perianthii, oblonga mu- 
tica enervis, exterior nana enervis. Lodicule 2, late truncate. 
Stamina 3. Styli 2. Stigmata totidem plumosa. Floris exte- 
rioris pedicellata, gluma bivalvis biflora, quam in sessili magis 
acuminata, exterior extrorsum plana pluri-nervis apice sub- 
obliquo attenuato, bifido, interior carinata 3-nervis, aristato- 
mucronata. 
Palez, lodiculz, stam. etc. ut in flore sessile. 
Gramen basi decumbens: vaginis brevibus glabris ligulis 
laceris obsoletis foliis linearibus erectis subglabris, vaginis 
. duplo longioribus. 
In graminosis humidis inter Pubna et Sheerazgunge: Sep- 
tember 12ih, 1835. 
The above view relating to the union of the stipitate flow- 
er, I adopted before reading the generic description in Kunth’s 
work. It is borne out by an analogy of the neighbour- 
ing genera: by the pedicel being in some measure separ- 
able, and by the inner glume of the inner flower adhering 
only to the true rachis. The rachis is hence rather oblique, 
or rather the side of the excavation opposite to the pedicel of 
the stalked flower, is rather larger. Mr. Brown perhaps 
refers to the same idea, otherwise he could scarcely say, 
* Gluma superioris soluta”. 
Partium situs et alternatio (floris exterioris.) Fig. 109. 
а. Gluma exterior. 
6. Do. interior. 
c. Palea interior floris exterioris neutrius. 
d. Palea exterior floris hermaphrod. 
е. 5, interior nana, 
The view of the flower being stipitate is proved by the 
lowermost articulation only having one. 
2. Hemarthria, Pl. CLVI. Fig. 1. 
Lave. Culmi basi decumbentes, geniculati vagine interno- 
