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G-8 lin. longa, intcrdum minor, rhacliil];e urticulis inferiori/jit.i brevissimis, supcrioribus conspicuis, 

 hirsutis, flosculis 1-2 infimis et 2-3 tcrmiiialibus iiicomplctis, rcliquis bipalcaccis perfcctis. Paleu 

 inferior 18-20-nervia, basi latissima, orbiculato-ovata, miicronata, dorso glal)crrima vcl raro pubcsccns, 

 toto margine brevissimc firabriata; superior minor, aiigustior, obtusiuseula, pnbeseens vcl hirsuta, 

 inter carinas ciliatas bincrvia. Sfjuamula 3, late, ovatse, obtusa;, longe fimbriata;, nervosse. Anthe- 

 rarum connectivum mncrone liirsuto apiculatum. Stylus longus, gracilis, filiformis, liirsutus, apice 

 2-3-fidus. Ovarium (immaturuni) basi atteuuatum, apice rostratiun. 



22. B. Oluhami, Munro. Culmo inermi, snffruticoso, fistuloso ; panicula termiuali, fcrc 

 slmpUci, interdum subspicseformi, rhachi angulata, striata, tactu scabrula, ramis 

 brevissimis, spiculis ovalo-lnnceolatis, 12-13 Un. longis, flosculis 5-8 hermaphroditis ; 

 palea inferiore basi lata, glabra, margine tenuitcr fimbriata ; squamulis plerumque 

 2, raro 3 ; stylo liirsuto, interdum ad medium 3-fido ; foliis (uumaturis) parvis, lan- 

 ceolatis, basi rotundatis, venulis transversis nuUis. 



Hah. in China, Formosa, Tamsuy, Oldham, no. 648 ! v. s. 



Culmus 5-6-pedalis ?, suflruticosus, fere herbaceus, pallida virens, eximie fistulosus, striatus, internodiis 

 inferioribus 7-8 poU. longis, spathis vix 3 poll, longis, striatis, fere glabris, apicnlo sub 3 lin. longo, 

 adpresso vel refracto, ramis 1-3 ad nodos, basi bracteatis, adpressis, erectis, supcrioribus interdum 

 apice floriferis. Folia (nondum evoluta) lanceolata, apice acinninatissima, basi rotundata et brevis- 

 simc petiolata, sub 2 poll, longa et 6 lin. lata, supra glabra, subtus hirsuta vel demum glabrescentia, 

 margine scabra, nervis secundariis utrinque 5-6. Vagina striatte, superne hirsutae et subasperse, 

 lateribus truncata^ et fimbriate, ligula inconspicua. Panicula in culmo terminalis, internodiis paucis, 

 3-4 poll, longis, striatis, uno latere subsulcatis, ramis, basi bracteis hirsutis velatis, brevibus vel bre- 

 vissimis, internodiis paniculse semper brevioribus, spiculas 1-4 gerentibus. Interdum rami superiores^ 

 apice, spiculas solitarias, reliquis minores, bractea suffultas, subspicatas ferunt. Spicula ovato- 

 lanceolata, 8-13-flora, rhachillaj nunquam visibilis articulis infcrioribvis brevissimis, fere glabris, apice 

 concavis, supcrioribus paulo longioribus, flosculis interdum omnibus bipaleaceis et (nisi 2-3 termina- 

 libus) perfectis. Palea inferior arbiculato-ovata, mucronata, basi lata, 30 et ultra nervis venulisque 

 transversis percursa, glabra, membranacea, margine vix conspicue fimbriata; superior hirsuta vel 

 pubescens, paulo brevior, multo angustior, obtusa, inter carinas superne longe ciliatas 4^~-nervia. 

 Squamula plemmque 2, hyalinm, tcnuimembranacese, lanceolata, acuta, fimbriatse, basi nervosie, 

 longa, tertia (intermedia) plerumque (an semper ?) obsoleta. Stamina 6, filamentis latis, connective 

 antherarum mucrone longo, hirsuto, apiculato. Stylus basi simplex, hirsutus, interdum (non semper) 

 ad medium, 3-fidus, stigmatibus pulchre plimiosis. Ovarium stipitatum, apice hirsutum, in stylnm 

 rostrato-attenuatum. 

 The panicle of this species bears a considerable resemblance to Roxburgh's drawing of 

 that of B. halcooa, and also to the portions which I have seen of the panicle of B. teres. 

 The style is also occasionally, but not always, deeply trifid ; and I ought, perhaps, to 

 have placed this species in the first section of the genus and next to B. halcooa. Several 

 florets in the two spiculee which I have examined are e-vidently in an abnormal state, and 

 in some the long points of the anthers are prolonged into style-like appendages of con- 

 siderable length. 



23. B. Brandish, Munro. Culmo excelso, usque ad 120-pedali; panicula maxima, 

 ramosissima, ramis supcrioribus floriferis l|-2 ped. longis, gracilibus, decurvis, 

 pendulis, spiculis in verticillis globosis, tequidistantibus, approximatis, dcnsissinie 



