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reliquis 1-2 rcpcriuntur, h;e semper palcic iiiferiori oppositoe. Stamina G, basi moiia(leli)ha, antheris 

 mucronc plus minus hirsute terminatis. Stylus brevis, basi incrassatus, supcrne, ut videtur, bifidus, 

 sed forsau trifidus. Ovarium (immaturum) apice hirsutissimum. 



This species appears to be a loftier plant than the following, and to have a much more 

 compound inflorescence ; and the spicules also are rather shorter ; but the leaves appear 

 to me to afford the best marks of distinction. Kurz is prol)al)ly quite correct in identi- 

 fying Rumph's Arimdarhor maxima with this plant ; but I have felt bound to adopt Will- 

 denow's specific name as the first published. Willdenow's plant was kindly forwarded l)y 

 Dr. Garcke for my inspection from Berlin, so that there is no doubt of its identity. 

 Willdenow had only seen one flowering branchlet, sent l)y Thunbcrg, and therefore 

 describes it as having " spica terminalis simplex." His locality of India is, of course, 

 wrong — as Thunberg was never in India, ordinarily so called. 



2. G. ATTER, Kurz, MS. (nomen tantum) in herb. Culmo erecto, 40-pedali, internodiis 1-1^ 



ped.longis, ad basin et apicem albido strigoso tomentos is, {oliis basi rotundatis,vel raris- 

 sime subattenuatis, subtus hirsutis, petiolatis, petiolo hii'suto, nervis secundariis 

 subtus conspicuis, vaginis pilis saspe atris hu'sutis, panicula bis composita, spiculis 

 sub 6 lin. longis. — Bamhusa Thouarsii |3. alter, Hassk. PI. Jav. rar. 41, non Kunth. 

 B. verticillata, Miq. I. c. 416, partim, sed non WiUd. 



Hab. in 3aveL,HorsfieId ! Buitenzorg (" B. atter Bazaar ") {" B. tamau") (var. rhachi hirsutiss.), Kurz. v. s. 



Culmus apice ramosuSj internodiis glabris, viridibus, apice farinosis, lg-2 poll, crassis, spathis ovatis, sub- 

 pedalibus, intus glaberrimis, extus densissime nigro strigosis, apice, lateribus undulato-fimbriatis, 

 apiculo lanceolate, "reflexo," lanceolato-acuminato, 4 poll, longo, utrinque pilis nigris liii'suto. 

 Folia lanceolata, apice fere setaceo-acuminata, basi rotundata, petiolo complanato, utrinque scabro- 

 hirsuto, margine argute serrata, 7-13 poll, longa, 9-20 lin. lata, supra scabriuscula, subtus hirsuta 

 et ssepissime scabra, nervis secundariis utrinque 8-10, conspicuis, venulis transversis elevatis. 

 VayiruB sulcato-striatse, striis pilis vel nigris vel pallidioribus hirsutse, vel piloi'um residuis scabrae, 

 marginibus longe fimbriatje, fovea infra petiolum margine fimbriata, ore nudaj vel uno latere raris- 

 sime fimbriatcc, ligula subelongata, truncata, dorso hirsuta, margine interdum longe fimbriata. Pani- 

 cula bis composita, ramo vel culmo ? terminalis " 6 pad. longa," Hassk. (pars superior 3 ped. longa 

 adest in lib. Horsfield), internodiis (visis) 4-5 poll, longis, teretibus, scabris, apice pruinosis, ad 

 uodos 3 ramos 2-3-nos, insequales, 5-10 poU. longos, gerentibus, pars superior simplex, nutans, ver- 

 ticillato-spicata, verticillis 3-2-| poll, distantibus, verticillis rhachi ceutrali plimspiculatis, in 

 latcralibus 3-5-7 spiculis, internodiis ramulorum striatis, subhirsutis, uno latere sulcatis. Spicula 

 ovata, subobtusa, 6 lin. longa, 6-7-flora, flosculis 2-3 superioribus unipaleaceis, 3 sequeutibus per- 

 fectis, terminali vel ad pediccllum brcvem redacto, vel uuipaleacco, palea reliquis simili, paleis iiifc- 

 rioribus dorso puberulis, superioribus, apice subobtusis, pUis pcnicillatis. Rcliqua, Squamula, Sta- 

 mina, Stylus, et Ovarium, nuUo modo a G. verticillata discrepant. 



Kurz, in his notes, identifies this species with B. aspera and B. bitinig, Rcem. et Sch. ; 

 but the latter is described as having much longer, and the former much more glabroi\s 

 leaves. 



3. G. HETEROSTACHTA, Munro. Culmo gracili, 30-pcdali, internodiis floriferis inferio- 



ribus apice scabris, superioribus nitidis, glaberrimis, foliis fere lineari-lanceolatis, 



