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Culin)is procerus, fistulosus, intcrrlum subscmiteres ; interuodiis '\r-G poll, longis, laevissimis ; ramis l-l^I-pe- 

 daliljus, lignosis, glabris ; ramulis semivcrticillato-fasciculatis, coloratis, nitidis, filiformibus sed validis, 

 spithaiuffiis ad pedalibus. Folia lincari-lanceolata, 3-4 liu. lata, 2-4 ])oll. longa, glabra, acuminata, 

 basi in petiolum brcvcm attenuata, utrinque puuctulis exasperata, Ijete viridia, nervis secundariis 

 utroque latere 3 ; venulis transversis creberrimis, supra et subtus valde prominulis, diaphanis, inter- 

 stitiis quadratis. Vagina striatse, glabroe, ore longe ligulatoe, fimbriatte vel fere efimbriatse, ad inscr- 

 tionem petioli brevipilosse. Inflorescentia omnino generis, racemis basi ebracteatis, spatbis stra- 

 mineis 2-3 poll, longis, involutis, maximam partem uon nisi e spieulis 2 formatis, quarum altera 

 sessilis, altera pedicellata. Spicula plus minus hirsutse, 9-12-lineales, 4— 8-florse, intra glumas dis- 

 tincte pedicellatse, rhachillaj articulis apice barbatis. Glunice intequales, membranacese, 1-5 nervis, 

 supei-ior (9 nervis fide Trin.) 4| lin. longa. Palea inferior longc acuminata, 8 lin. longa, dorso 

 scabro-birsiita, 7-9 nervis ; superior distinete brevior, bieostata et prseterea utrinque et inter costas 

 binervis. Squamulm 3, lanceolatae, inconspicue nervosae, vix inaequales, duse latiores, superne fim- 

 briatse. Stylus cite trifidus (bifidus interdum fide Trin.) in stigmata 3 plumosula. Fructus (im- 

 maturus) lineari-oblongus vel lagenseformis. 



This has apparently never heen found in flower except in Nepal, by Wallich, in 1821, 

 which may be accounted for by the fact that no European has since that date visited 

 some parts of Nepal into which Wallich was allowed to send his collectors. I feel con- 

 siderable doubts about the identity of the plants, in leaf only, from the more western 

 Himalaj'as, Sikkim, and Bootan. In all of these the vagime have much longer cilia, 

 the ligules are shorter, and the leaves are thicker in substance; but I have been 

 unwilling on these grounds alone to create new species. 



III. Phtllostachts. 



Siebold et Zuccarini, Abb. Akad. der Wiss. Miincb. (Matb.-Phys. Clas.) iii. 745, t. 5. fig. 3 (1843); Endl. 

 Gen. PI. Suppl. iii. 58 (1843). 



Spicula sursum imperfecta, intra glumas distinete pedicellata, 3-5-flora, flosculo terminal! tabescente, 

 minimo, in spica simplici glumis imbricata sessilis. Gfumce multinerviae, valde variabiles, inferior 

 plerumque apice foliaceo terminata ; superior longitudine varians, rarissime deficiens. Palea inferior 

 multinervia, acuininata vel rarius, uti glumse, in laminam foliaceam extensa, hirsuta vel glabra, 

 superiorem biearinatam, apice bicuspidatam, sequans vel superans. Stamina 3, primum inclusa et 

 plicata, dein longe exserta et pendula. Squanmlce 3, lanceolatae, apice fimbriate. Stylus basi sim- 

 plex, longe supi-a basin in stigmata 3, filiformia, serrulato-plumosa, longe exserta divisus. Ovarium 

 longe stipitatum, tune obovatum et in stylum longe rostratum attenuatum. 



Gramina arborescentia, injaponiana, China et Himalaya crescentia, culmo semitereti, nodis prominentibns ; 

 ramulis foliiferis semiverticillatis, plerumque multinodosis, interdum brevissimis, apice folia 2 vel 

 pauca gerentibus, basi squamis iuanibus serius deciduis obtectis. Folia breviter petiolata, pulcher- 

 rime tessellata, supra glabra vel tactu subaspera, subtus plerumquQ pallida et saepe prresertim basin 

 versus pubescentia. Inflorescentia paniculaeforrais, ramis primariis apice plerumque iterum foliosis, 

 ramulis basi squamis obtectis, ultimis sursum spiculas 2-5 alternas fereutibus. 



This well-named genus is readily distinguished from all the Triglossce by its very long 

 style, simple for a considerable distance from the base and then divided into 3 very long 

 revolute stigmas, and by its semiterete stems. The details of the structure of the spiculae 

 are remarkably well figured in the plate of the Munich Transactions referred to above. 



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