22 GRAMINE. 
supra longe parceque pilosis, marginibus cartilagineis vix sca- 
bris, spicis 3 digitatim fasciculatis, patentis, erectis, vel pluri- 
bus alternantibus, secundis, rachi undulata gracili, 3 gona; 
marginibus cartilagineis denticulatis ; floribus ternatis, inaqua- 
liter pedicellatis, pedicelis scabris, inferioribus ! vel exterioribus 
aliquando abortientibus. Gluma exterior O. interior minima, 
late ovata, membranacea; externe pilis apice capitalis albis la- 
nata. Palea glumacea floris exterioris neutrius ovata mutica, 
5 nervis, dorso iisdem pilis lanata. 
Palea floris hermaphrod : glabre ovate membranacee mu- 
tice, exterior acutae, marginibus incumbentibus? Lodicule 2, 
cuneate membranacee, quoad paleam interiorem omnino ex- 
terne. Palea interior eodem modo convoluta. Stam. 3. Styli, 
Stigmata 2, plumosa, ratione styli brevia, fere pedicillata. 
Caryopsis paleis induratis, brunneis, glabris lineato-punctula- 
tis acutis, inclusis: dorso convexa, venire velantice plana. 
udimentum pale interioris floris neutrius vel nullum vel 
minutum cellulosum. 
In graminosis, Jumalpore : September 20th, 1835. 
An P. propinquum Br. Pr. 1, 193 (49.) Stirps Roxburghio 
vix cognita. 
Situation and altern. of Parts Pl. CXXXIX. Fig. 171. 
a. Gluma unica interior. 
b. Palea glumacea floris neutrius. 
€. ,, interior minuta. 
d. ,, exterior floris herm. 
€. 5, interior. 
J f. Lodicule. 
9, 9, 9. Stamina. 
h, h. Stigmata. 
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8. Panicum hirsutum. Kunth.! Roxb. Fl. Indica. 1-303. 
Remarkable for the breadth of the outer glume, the mar- 
gins of which overlap posticously and for the occasional pre- 
sence of a minute inner palea to the outer neuter floret. 
