PANICUM. 29 
15. Panicum (Chameraphem) intermedium. PSEUDORA- 
puis. Brunoniana Gr. 
Gramen fluitans culmis longissime immersis longeque flui- 
tantibus geniculatis, adgeniculas radicantibus compressius- 
culis, vaginis glabis collo nudis, folia excedentibus, ligula 3 
dentata, dente intermedio minore, fol. linearia, 2-3 uncialia, ob- 
tusiuscula, 3-nervia, margine subsimplici denticulato, panicula 
terminalis ovata effusa, sub glabra inferne 4 gona, sub exca- 
vata, floribus 1 vel 2 infimis sessilibus in excavationibus nidu- 
lantibus, superioribus stipitatis sepissime solitariis stipite ult- 
ra florem quemque si unicum velsi 2 ultra florem terminalem 
in aristam subulatem denticulatam, flore duplo longiorem 
producto, stipite et prolongatione denticulate scabra, denti- 
culis antrorsis 
Gluma exterior membranacea parva alba, subcrenulata, ener- 
vis ratione interioris minima. Gluma interior lanceolata acu- 
ta submutica, marginib parum involutis, sub ciliatis nervo 
striata. Flosculi sub 13-nervia dissimiles: exterior masculus 
duplo triplove major. Palea exterior glume interiori similis, 
sed margines majis iavoluti in scabrelli. Interior duplo minor 
breviorque membranacea glabra, apice bifido, dente setiforme, 
minimo interdum interjecto, nervis 2, lateralibus indistinctis 
infra apicem, desinentibus. Lodiculz 2, palez interiori omnino 
externe, oblongae subrhomboidez integra apices dilutissime 
viridescentes ? 
Stam 3, antheris sanguineo-rubris. 
aleæ floris interioris feminei ovato-lanceolate, mutice 
membranacee exterior enervis, interior latior magis obtuse, 
et involuta, binervis, nervis infra apice desinent. Stamina ru- 
dimenta З. Lodicula 1. vel 2angustæ. emarginate. Styli 2, 
ima basi coaliti, longi. Stigmata plumosa ratione styli longis- 
sima purpurascentia. 
Situation and alternation of parts Pl. CXX XIX. Fig. 217. 
In acquis currentibus profundis. Bengal, Goalnugnr : Septr. 
28/A, 1835. 
