554 NAMES AND OBSERVATIONS ON INDIAN PLANTS. 



This last degree of development of the pedicelled locusta 

 extends to other species, and such species differ from Mani- 

 suris merely in the form of the outer valve of the gluma of 

 the sessile locusta. 



Two other views, different from that here adopted, of the 

 structure of Batzeburgia, have been taken ; the first by M. 

 Kimth, who considers, and perhaps more correctly, the 

 third squamula as the upper valve of the hermaphrodite 

 flower. According to the second view, w r hich is obviously 

 suggested by the figure, the locusta would be regarded 

 as containing one flower only. — Brown. 



66] Aikinia Brunonis, Wall. 



Foliis petiolatis, pedunculis solitariis pluribusve seriatis. 

 —Brown. 



Habitat in rupibus subumbrosis prope Ccepang in insula 

 Timor; lecta florida et fructifera initio Aprilis anno 1803. 

 — Brown. 



Radix annua, fibrosa, brevissima. Caulis teres, succu- 

 lentus, tenuissime pubescens pilis brevibus acutis ; 2 — 4 

 pollicaris, saspius parum ramosus, nunc simplicissimus. 

 Folia petiolata, cordata, subovata, obtusa, repando-dentata, 

 dentibus brevissimis, subsesquiuncialia, inferiora alterna, 

 terminalia quandoque subopposita ; omnia super viridia, pilis 

 brevibus acutis sparsis scabriuscula ; subter lsete viridia, 

 glabra, pube brevissima nervum venasque primarias pin- 

 natas tantum occupante. Petioli inferiores folia subae- 

 quantes, pilosiusculi, semiteretes. Spicce unilaterales, cir- 

 culate, racemosse, demum corymbosse, pedunculatge, rachi 

 hinc (antice) pedicellis confertis ebracteatis, florescentia 

 peracta sensim elongatis ; inde (postice) foliolio sessili, 

 subrotundo, cucullato (Commelince ad instar) involucrata. 

 Pedunculi laterales solitarii, et terminates 2 — 4 collate- 

 rales, seriati inter folia duo subopposita, petiolata. Calyx 

 liber, monyphyllus, tubulosus, pilosiusculus, viridis, se- 

 miquinquefidus, dentibus sequalibus, erectis, acutis, per- 

 sistens, post anthesin parum auctus limboque patente 



