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apicibus recurvis dehiscentes. Gluma floris inferior: tantum 
1, (margines deersum incurvi), antheras 3 stiriles? includens. 
Fem: flores in bracteà cornea tubulosa cylindrica canalicu- 
lata obtecta, sulca rachim florum masculorum amplectente, 
Palea 1, carnosa, apice 2, aristata florem involvens. Glume 
2, concrete, acuminate convexe 1 membranacee, acute 
convexe interiores. Stylus 1, Stigmat 2, penicellato. 
Madras December, 1832. 
ALOPECURUS. 
1. Alopecurus diandrus. Gr. Pl. CXLII. Fig. II. 
Annuum, ascendens, spithameum. Culmis geniculatis, 
striatis, vaginisque glaucedine tectis. Vaginz laxe, folia longi- 
tudine excedentia glirate glabrae; juniores glaucedine tecta, 
collis imberbibus. Ligule conspicue oblonge integrz glabra. 
Folia linearia, angusta, inferiora sub 3 uncialia vix lineam 
latitudine acuminata supra conspicua lineata tenera. Mar- 
ginibus scabruisculis. Panicule terminales spiciformes, cy- 
lindrice obtuse, sub biunciales; juniores nude.  Locuste 
dense aggregate inferiores pauce in pedunculis, superi- 
ores solitarie omnes sessiles oblique affixe et articulate in 
apice pedicellorum incurvatorum, brevium sublaxe scabrorum, 
dilatato-cyathiformi, axis parallelze, valide compressz, uniflorz 
rudimento alterius n 
Gluma bivalvis, uniflora: valve compresse, naviculares 
oblique! membranacee mutice, carinate, facie exterior; 
univenie, сагіпе venulisque ciliatis, facie interiori eveniæ 
leves, glabre, ima basi coalite, exteriori inferiori paulo minori, 
Palea 1. membranacea, compressa, navicularis apice rotun- 
data. Glumæ exteriori opposite ; dorso infra medium aristate 
(arista scabra paleam paullo superante, marginibus interiori- 
bus $ coalitis, sub 4-venia, venis 2, utrinque ariste, ambabus 
incompletis. 
Stamina 2, filamenta longa, gracillima. Anth. versatilis au- 
