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6. a. Ditto ditto more enlarged, and genitalia. 
7. Fistitlum. 
Affghanisthan Otipore: 1840. 
Psiturus Trin. 
1. Psilurus rottbellicides Gr. Pl. CLIV. Fig. I. 
Gramen: gracil. spithamza parva ramosa, fol. setaceis, 
vaginis laxisuculis, ligula obsoleta. Spica erecta simplex (vere 
composita.) 
Rachi scabrell. subangulat. ; floribus opposit. concava. 
Flosculi solitarium rachi adpressi, rudimento stipitis alternis. 
Gluma unica (superior) nempe palea interior opposit, car- 
tilaginea, basi incrassat : 
Palee 2, exterior cartilaginea chartacea, in aristam longam 
acuminat. concava, e carinata pluri venia. 
Interior minor mutica, venis 2 viridibus ad venas subcartil. 
cæterum membranacea. Lodicule masse 2, saepius bilobe ; ; 
lobis minoribus. (next the axis.) 
Stam. 1: palez exterior oppossit. 
Stylus sub O. Stigmata plumosa: ovarium apicem obliquum. 
Caryopsis oblongo-clavata. 
Fios. semper clausus. Variat odio palee exteriorus et 
magnit, anthere. Gravelly ground at the base of sloping 
glacis. Otipore. Very common. 
1. Plant natural size. 
2. Locusta and portion of rachis. 
3, 3. Ditto viewed so as to shew the opposition of the 
glume to the inner palea. 
4. Flower side view and rudiment of a stalk of another. 
5. Ditto spread out. 
6. Inner view of inner Palea and Lodicule. 
6. a. Transverse section of Palea. 
7. Single anther and lodicula. 
8. Genitalia and lodicule at an early period. 
