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86 GRAMINE&. 
Spiculis geminatis basi bractea membranacea brunnescent; 
suffultas, rachibus villosis. 
Flosculi geminati, altero sessili hermaphrodito altero pe- 
didicellato masculo, terminalis ternatus, sessile nempe unico 
masculisque stipitatis, duobus. 
uma exterior superior lanceolato-oblonga membranacea, 
planiuscula nervis 2, viridibus 3-tio intermedi apicem versus 
tantum completo ce UR superaddito, marginibus supra me- 
dium subulatis. Scabris apice bifida. interior inferior ejus- 
dem consistentia minor carinata, 3-nervis, nervis carine tan- 
tum conspicuo marginibus involutis hyalinis. 
Palez 2, hyaline, exterior (interior) angustissime apice bi- 
partita, subciliata, sinu aristam subflexuosam flosculum duplo 
superantem gerente, 1-nervis, laciniis apicis subulatis, interior 
(exterior) multo major lanceolata, marginibus imis involutis 
ciliatis, enervis. 
Lodiculz 2, cuneatz, margine apicis potius supero subden- 
ticulato. Stamina. 3. 
Styli 2. Stigmata plumosa ratione styli subzequalia. 
Arista medium supra tantum denticulata. 
lumze flores stipitati, subconformes, sed exterior nec mar- 
gine subulat et sub O-nervia; interiorque carina minus 
prominula. | 
Palea exterior v. interior lodiculze staminaque ut in herma- 
phrodito. 
In colliculis, near Sylhet : October 4th, 1835. 
Glumarum situs primo aspectu reversus ut interior cui 
palea aristata. 
Stamenque tertium opposita inferior est, ordinatioque igi- 
tur normalis, vix. Andropogon versus, ob defectum flosculi 
neutrius; ob que flores masculos unipaleaceos. 
3. Andropogon aciculatus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1-266. A. acicu- 
laris Kunth Agr, 1-505. 
Gramen rigidum erectum 1-2 pedale, Folia vaginis levibus. 
