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flosculis 



um minor, rhachillae articulis inferior! 



8 cmspicni.1, 



mfimis et2-3 terminalibus incomplete, rclupiis bipaleaeus perfectis. Palm 

 basi latissima, orbiculato-ovata, mucronata, dorso glaborrimi I ftl ran, ,>uIkm 

 margine brevissime fimbriata; superior minor, angustior, obtusioiaib, pubeseena vel bin*. 



inter carinas ciliatas binervia. 



connectivum mucrone 



timbrial \\ nervosa*. Anthe- 



2-3 



us, {gracilis, filiformis 



basi 



22. B. Oldhami, Munro. Culmo inermi, saffruticoso, ftstuloso; panicula terminal., fciv 



simplici, interduni subspicaeformi, rhaclii angulata, striata, tactu srabrula, rainis 

 brevissimis, spiculis ovato-lanceolatis, 12-13 lin. longis, flosculis 5-8 hennaphroditii 

 palea inferiore basi lata, glabra, margine tenuitcr fimbria t; ; Bquamulis plenimque 

 2, raro 3; stylo hirsuto, interdum ad medium 3-fido; foliis (immaturi>) parvis, Ian- 

 ceolatis, basi rotundatis, venulis trans ver sis nullis. 



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



Culmus 5-6-pedalis ?, suffruticosns, fere herbaeeus, pallide virens, eximie fistulosus, striatus, intmicxlii* 

 inferioribus 7-8 poll, longis, spathis vix 3 poll, longis, striatis, fere glabri% apiculo sub 3 lin, lonjjo, 

 adpresso vel refracto, ramis 1-3 ad nodos, basi bracteatis, adpressis, erect is, suj noribus interdum 

 apice floriferis. Folia (nondnm evohita) lanceolata, apice acuminatissima, basi rotundnta ct brevk- 

 sime petiolata, sub 2 poll, longa et 6 lin. lata, supra glabra, subtus hirsuta vel denium glabn itia, 

 margine scabra, nervis secundariis utrinque 5-6. Vagina striatae, supcrne hirsute et mbaspera 

 lateribus truncatae et fimbriatse, ligula inconspicua. Panicula in culmo terminafis, intern odiis pawis, 

 3-4 poll, longis, striatis, uno latere subsulcatis, ramis, basi bracteis birsutis velatis, brcvibu* vel bre- 

 vissimis, intemodiis panicula semper brevioribus, spiculas 1-4 gerentibus. Interdum rami npciiom, 

 apice, spiculas solitarias, reliquis minores, bractea suffultas, subspicatas fenmt. Spirilla oratu- 

 lanceolata, 8-13-flora, rhachillae nunquam visibilis articulis inferioribus b rc v isiimii , fere glabris, apice 

 concavis, superioribus paulo longioribus, flosculis interdum omnibus bipaleae. is et (nisi 2-3 termina- 

 libus) perfectis. Palea inferior orbiculato-ovata, mucronata, basi lata, 30 et ultra nervis I Dulkque 

 transversis percursa, glabra, membranacea, margine vix conspicue fimbriata; superior hkrmU rd 

 pubescens, paulo brevior, multo angustior, obtusa, inter carinas supcrnc longe ciliatas 4-?-n >*. 

 Sguamula plerumque 2, hyaline, tenuimembranaceae, lanceolata, acuta, fimbriatse, basi nerv. . 



longa, tertia (intermedia) plerumque (an semper?) obsoleta. Stamina 6, filament,* latis, connects 

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

 ad medium 3-fidus, stigmatibus pulchre phimosis. Ovarium stipitatum, apice hirsutum, in stylum 



attenuatum 



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

 that of B. balcooa^ni also to the portions which I have seen of the panicle of J?, teres. 

 The style is also occasionally, hut not always, deeply trifid; and I ou S bt, perhaps to 



Several 



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



florets in the two spicuhe which I have examined are evidently 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. B R ™„, Munro. Culmo exceUo, usque ad 120-pedali; panicula maxima 



ramosissima, ramis superioribus floriferis lf-2 ped longxs. paeffibue, ^ dee^n 



pendulis, spiculis in verticillis globosis, sequidistantibus, approxunatis 



densissime 



