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ICONES PLANTARUM. 



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breviores, extima unineryis, secunda trinervis, carina subalata ; floricla 

 superioresque 3-iierves carina alata. Palea glnma paullo brevior, dorso 

 aliB 2 latis ci^assinsculis apice ciliolatis aucta. Ehacliis spiculse supra 

 florem insigniter flexuosa. 



The genus lias been establisbed for this species and the Poa ctbortiva, 

 R. Br. {H. Broivnii, Benth.), which is a stouter plant with dense 

 sessile heads of spikelets and more numerous empty glumes. It is 

 allied to Ectrosia in the numerous empty glumes above the flower, to 

 Elytroi^liora in the broadly winged palea. — G. Bentham. 



Fig. 1. Spikelet. 2. Flowering glume. 3. Palea. 4. Diagram of the flower, con- 

 sisting of the glume and its dorsal wing, the palea and its two wings, two lodicules, 

 three stamens, and oyurj. 



