PANICUM: 23 
Glumæ valve exterior membranaceæ latissime marginibus 
postice incumbent., mutica, 9 nervia, nervis lateralibus minu- 
tis incompletis interior ovata mutica, 7 nervis. 
Palea exterior glumacea, floris exterioris neutrius, 5-ner- 
vis: glume interior conformis. Interior; membrancea mi- 
nuta, oblonga apice rotundata, obsolete binervis. ? 
Paleæ «idis interioris hermaphrod., charteaceo-membrana- 
cee lineatz, mutice, marginibus involutis, exterior convexa, 
5 nervis, interior planuiscula, dorso ; ibidemque tantum char- 
tacea, marginibus latis membranaceis. Lodicula2; externe 
quoad paleam interiorem site, carnose cuneate truncate 
extrorsum divise: potius extrorsum conduplicate. Stam. 3, 
Styli 2, Stigmata plumosa ratione styli-subzqualia. Caryopsis. 
Gramen, prostrat; hursitum : fol. lanceolat, basi cordatis ; 
vaginis barbato-ciliatis ; culmis ramosis, ramis floriferis basi 
geniculat. Spiculis alternis patentibus, pluri floris, floribus se- 
cundis solitariis alternis sessilibus. 
Situation and altern. of parts Pl. CXX XIX. Fig. 160. 
a. Gluma exterior. 
5. Ditto interior. 
c. Palea glumacea exterior floris neutrius. 
d. Interior. 
e. Palea exterior floris hermaph. 
FJ p interior 
9,9. Lodicule. 
h,h. Stigmata. 
Legi prope Jumalpore : Sept. 18th, 1835. 
9. Panicum Erectum 3, pedale, culmis glabris sublevibus, 
vaginis foliis duplo breviorib. ciliatis, ligulis obsoletis, fol. 
nearibus acuminatis, base late cordatis, ciliatis, faucibus vagi- 
narum pilosiusculis. 
Panicula laxa nutante, ramis alternis spiculis plurifloris al- 
ternis secundis, pseudo-spiraliter dispositis; floribus, inferi- 
oribus cujusque spicule terminatim aggregatis inzqualiter 
pedicellatis; 1, vel inferioribus potius exterioribus зере 
abortivis, terminali cujusque spicule binato; ambobus 
fertilibus. 
