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Culmus gracilis, ramulis floriferis 9-12 poll, longis. Folia angusta, liucari-lanccolata, basi rotuudata vei 

 cuucata, in pctiolum In'evem basi subtumidum attcnuata, apice sctaceo-acumiiiata, margine scrrata, 

 3-5 poll, longa, 3-5 lin. lata, utrincpic glabra, .supra iiitcrdum tactu scahra, nervis sccundariis G iii- 

 conspicuis, venuli.s transversis uullis. VaijiruB sulcatse, glabra, margine licvcs, mcmljrana infra 

 petiolum termiuatae, Iviige Uyulatce. Panicula elongata, 4-5 poll, longa ; ramis 1-2 poU. longis, laxis, 

 adpressis ; rliachi angulata, scabro-hispidula ; spiculis plus minus longe pedicellatis. Spicula 5-6 lin. 

 longa, fusca, scabro-hirsutiuscula ; glumis acutis, inaequalibus, superiore 2 lin. longa, carinata. 

 Flosculi neutri iuaequales, nervoso-costati, inferior nervis 5 ; superior nervis 5-7, apice obtuso, herma- 

 phroditum involvens et aquans vel etiam superans. Paha inferior floscidi fertilis neutris glabrior et 

 minus conspicue nervosa, 7-9 nervis ; superior subsequilonga, bicarinata et prpeterea biner^a. S(pia- 

 tnulte superne fimbriatce, subiuEequalcs, dure latiores. Stylus cite bifidus in stigmata 2 plumosa. 



This species is certainly allied to the preceding in general form, habit, and appearance ; 

 but it has much longer glumes, and the spiculse are nearly twice the length and have 

 much longer pedicels. The second neutral flower is also unusually long and enveloping. 

 The leaves are more glabrous, and the ligula considerably longer. The preceding pages 

 were printed before I had an opportunity of seeing, through the kindness of M. Brong- 

 niart, a flowering specimen of this plant ; and it is consequently not included in the 

 " Conspectus Specierum " at p. 53, but should be placed between nos. 19 and 20. 



20. C. ANELYTHRA, Nccs in Linn. ix. 491. Panicula decomposita, ramis brevibus densi- 

 floris demum cUvaricatis, glumis obsoletis; foliis basi subcordatis, fere sessilibus, subtus 

 dense strigosis. — Rupr. I. c. 120, tab. vi. fig. 16 ; Steudel, I. c. 336. Denclmgt^ostis 

 anelythra, Nees, I. c. 



Huh. in Brasilia, Sdloiu ! v. s. 



Culmus lignosus, ad nodos ramosus, ramulis paucis (2-5), subpedalibus, iuferne geniculato-nodosis et dense 

 foliosis. Fulia lauceolata, 2i-3 poll, longa, 3-4' lin. lata, basi subcordata, arete sessilia, striate 

 patentia, glauccscentia, ad pctiolum barbata, subtus ad nervos dense strigosa, nervis secundariis a 

 tertiariis ffigre discernendis. Vagina tota longitudine sulcato-striatse, pubescenti-scabrse, apice 

 biawiculata et in ligulam obtusam productse, efimbriatEe. Panicula deeomposita, attcnuata, pyra- 

 midalis, 5-6 poll, longa, rhaelii hirsutissima, ramis pubescenti-villosis, racemosis, dcnsifloris, demum 

 divarieatis. Spicula lanceolato-acuminata, 3 lin. longa, flavescens, glabra ; glumis minimis, ad callo- 

 sitates redactis. Flosculi neutri subrequales, inconspicue 3-5-nervati, acuti, hermaphrodito \ breviores. 

 Flosculo neutro sccundo interdum (teste Rupreclit in icone) bipaleaceo. Palea inferior (flosculi 

 fertilis) 5 ner\as, acuta, superiorem binerviam, anguste carinatam, apice bidentatam vix a;quans. 

 Squainuke obovato-cuneiformes, acutae, lougc ciliatie et penicillato-barbata. Stylus ad basin usque 

 divisus, stigmatibus longis, longe plumuloso-cUiatis. " Habitus multo magis Punicets cujusdara 

 acutiflorfe ac Chusquea." — Rupr. 



This grass has quite the habit and appearance of Panimm proliferum, Lam., and has 

 a different look from all other species of Chusquea. 



21. C. WiLKESii, Munro. Panicula vix decomposita, ramis Isevibus divarieatis tandem 

 refractis, axillis glandnlosis, ^hnrns. fere obsoletis; foliis basi attenuatis, subtus (basin 

 versus) uno latere ad costani pilosis. 



Hab. in Brasilia, Organ Montcs, Wilkes, v. s. 



Culmus scandens, fistulosus, internodiis 7 poll, longis, liirsutiusculis vel superne (infra nodos) liirsutis, 



