42 ` GRAMINEX. 
e. Palea exterior ventricosa floris feeminea. 
J- » interior. 
Bengal Prope Osunpoor : September 27th, 1835. 
2. Isachne stigmatosa, Gr. Pl. CXLVIII. Fig. II. 
Planta elegans basi decumbens, radicansque parte erecta spi- 
thamæa pedali, culmorum subsimplicium articulis genicula- 
tis, tumidiusculis glabris, vaginis brevibus uncialibus limbo 
brevioribus marginibus ciliatis, collo pilis longis ciliato, (potius 
ligula libera nulla nitida, ciliata) fol. lanceolato-acuminata, 
basi sub cordata, ibidemque utrinque ciliis setosis paucis, acu- 
tiuscula, supralineis elevatis creberrimis striata, utrinque 
tactu retrorsum asperrima marginibus cartilagineis antrorsum 
denticulatis. Panicula subovata effusa tenua ramisque alter- 
nantibus sub-opposit. capillaribus flexuosis scabra, ramulis 
bifloris, ad insertiones supra glandulosis, continuis capillari- 
bus flexuosis. : 
Glum:e ovatz parce minuteque pubescentes, mutice obtus- 
sissime inferior 7-nervis, paulo longior planiuscule superior 
ventricosa; 9-nervis, ambe marginibus membranaceis hya- 
linis. 
Flosculi dissimiles inzequales; exterior (inferior) paulo 
longior masculus planiusculus. Paleæ  membranacez ob- 
tussime, sub-diaphans, exterior marginibus parum involu- 
tis sub 7-nervis, nervo centrali tantum distincto, nervis interior 
conformis, sub-binervis, nervis omnino parum distinctis, 
Lodicule 2, triangulari-cuneiformes, sub-emarginatz, subre- 
pandz ; semi-exsertz. Stamina. 3. 
Flosculus superus  plano-ventricosus sub-hemispheiri- 
cus, dorso clypeatus. Palee mutice obtusissime, charta- 
ceo-membranacez, exterioris marginibus parum involutis, 
indistinct 5-nervis, nervo centrali magis distincto, secus 
marginem vel partem intra-marginalem inflexam dense cili- 
ata, pubescens interior conformis, minutisissime pubescens, 
planiuscula, Lodicule 2, stamina rudimenta nulla, vel 
minima. 
