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oribus) ; Dacca ! cult. Cachar ! (" Kiiikoit"), Hooker (folia tantum) ; Tenasserim, Moulmeyn, 5028 ! 

 Wullich ; Mergui, Griffith, 2,27 ! Heifer, 2G7 ! ; Pegu (" Yakatwa"), 8 ! Brandis (folia taiitum), M'C/e/- 

 Umd ! V. s. 



Cuhni " »\\ha.r\)Ove\" {Roxh.), dense CKspitosi, "30-50-pcdales" [Roxb.), " 100-pcdalcs" [Brundii<), 

 supcrue ineurvi, spinosissimi, ramis iuferne seinivcrticillatis, supernc altornatim distichis, vix fistu- 

 losi, duri, virido-flavi, striati. Folia lineari-lanceolata, 3-6 (raro 7 poll.) longa, Ijasi plerumcpie atte- 

 nuata in pctiolum brevissimum, basi subtumidum, supra subglabra, subtus pallidiora et siepc liirsuta, 

 nervis secundariis utroque latere 4-6, plerumque incouspicuis. Vagince primum dense hirsutse, 

 delude subglabrse, ore ciliis paucis caducis fimbriatee. Internodiis culmi florifcri aphylli eis foliiferi 

 longioribus et magis fistulosis (teste Roxb.). Panicula ingens, ramosissima, ramulis ultimis plcrunujuc 

 tcntiibus, spiculis per iutervalla, sEEpe brcvissima, dense glomerato-verticillatis. luterdum spiculie 

 in glomcrulis, diamctro 1-pollicaribus, ad basin ramulorura aggregatse. Sjncula acutte, siepc curvatje, 

 breves, 5-6 vel raro 8 lin. longcSj -t-6-florje, floseulis 2-3 perfectis, soepe monoicaj et forsan dioic«. 

 Palea inferior mai'gine vel glabra vel fimbriata, mucronata, acuta, in sj)iculis masculis supcriore, 

 cariuis superne ciliata, longior, in hennapbroditis brevior. Antherarum eonnectivum elongatum. 

 SqtiamulcE 3, fimbriatse, vix nervosse, duse subobtusse, tertia lanceolata. Stylus plerumque cito 

 3-fidus, basi conieo-bulbosus. Ovarium (immatiirum) lincari-obloiigum, "clavatum" [Roxb.). 

 Caryopsis matura nunquam a me visa. 



This species is best to be distinguisbecl from B. aruncUnacea by having a palor-coloured 

 and more striated panicle, smaller and more coriaceous spiculas, with fewer flowers, 

 generally smaller leaves, which are often hairy on the underside, and with the petiole 

 sometimes remarkably swollen at the base. In some of the Tenasserim specimens the 

 spiculfe are remarkably small ; but they do not appear to differ in any other respect. 

 Unfortunately most of the specimens I have seen are imperfect ; some contain only male 

 spicula?, and the flowering specimens generally are unaccompanied by leaves, and vice 

 versa. Eoxburgh states that "it is a middling-sized subarborcous species;" biit a few 

 lines below he says, "the height is from 30 to 50 feet;" and Dr. Brandis says it spreads 

 all over the lower part of Pegu, in the plains and along the principal streams, and attains 

 a height of 100 feet. Thwaites mentions that the seed of this species is eaten in Ceylon ; 

 and it was probably this species which is referred to in p. 4 as having flowered so pro- 

 videntially in India in 1806. The magistrate states " it was the wild thorny species only 

 which had flowered." 



] 9. B. ouiENTALis, Nees in herb. Wight. 206 A, et in Linn. ix. 472 (partim). Culmo incerte 

 spinoso, florifero, in speciminibus visis efoliato, glauco-viridi, angulato et sulcata, 

 miii usque diiro, internodiis ssepe hirsutis ; panicula dccomposita ; spiculis membra- 

 naceis, irregulariter paniculato-agglomeratis, interdum circa nodes dense verticillatis, 

 nonnullis, glumis distantibus, distincte pedunculatis, 7-9 lin. longis, 5-8-floris; 

 palea inferiors margine vel fimbriata vel nuda, superiorem vix suba^quante, stylo 

 basi conico-bulboso, non longe supra basin 2-3-fido ; foliis (in spec, visis) 2-3^ poll, 

 longis, petiolis plerumque hirsutis, vaginis primum hirsutis, ore longc ciliatis. — 

 Eupr. I. c. 142, t. xiii. fig. 51. B. aruncUnacea, Nees in Linn. I. c. 475, teste Wight, 

 hb. prop. 207 !=1802 !, et Rupr. I. c. 141, t. xiii. fig. 50, sed non Retz. et aliorum. 



Ilab. in peninsula Indiae orientalis, no. 206 a ! = 1800!; Quilon, no. 3417! Wiyht\ In planitie ad 

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