24 GRAMINE. 
Flores perfecti gluma exterior membranacea ovata, basi 
lata, marginibus postice conniventibus, indistincte 5 nervis 
(superior) interior major ovata, mutica convoluta, 5 nervis. 
Flos exterior neuter bipaleaceus. Palea exterior glume su- 
periori similis, sed majis membranacea, 5 nervis. 
Interior membrancea oblonga, vix acuti subbi-carinata, carinis 
denticulati-ciliatis, marginibus incurvis, respectu axis, floris 
neutrius binervis. 
alez floris interioris hermaphroditi membranacee, acute 
mutice, exterior lanceolata, 4 nervis, nervo centrale obsole- 
to, interior minor binervis. Lodicule 2, cuneate semi exserte. 
Stam. З, Styli 2, ima basi coaliti. Stigmata ratione styli longa 
plumosa. Caryopsis. 
Situation and alternation of parts Pl. CXXXIX. Fig. 164. 
c. Palea exterior glumacea floris neutrius. 
d. Ditto interior. 
e. Palea exterior floris hermaphrod. 
J. Ditto interior. 
9,g. Lodicule semi exserte respectu pales interior. 
h,h,h. Stamina. 
11. Stigmata. 
Legi in aquosis. Jumalpore : Sept. 20th, 1835. 
10. Panicum plicatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind: 1-313. P. aspera- 
tum Kunth. Agr. 1. 126. 
Gramen erectum 4, 5, pedale culinis vaginisque laxis hir- 
tis compsessis, collo barbatis ligule subobsoleta dense ciliata. 
Fol. lanceolata utrinque sed presertim apices versus acumina- 
ta, pulchre plicata, tactu retrorso scabra, marginibus carti- 
lagineis denticulatis. Panicula effusa nutans scabrelli ramis 
filiformibus elongatis subsecundis, floribus subsecundis, infi- 
mis fummisque binatis, rachilla denticulata ultra florem termi- 
nalem plerumque tabescentis in processum aristiformem eo- 
dem modo-denticulatum product. 
Gluma exterior 3 plo minor late ovalis obtusissima, 3 nervis, 
