570 Description of some Gramineous Plants. [Sept. 



wine-wreathed forehead, stamp the individual : while the drapery of 

 his attendants pronounces them at least to be foreign to India, what- 

 ever may be thought of Silenus' own costume, which is certainly highly 

 orthodox and Brahmanical. If the sculptor were a Greek, his taste 

 had been somewhat tainted by the Indian beau ideal of female beauty 

 — in other respects his proportions and attitudes are good — nay, supe- 

 rior to any specimen of pure Hindu sculpture we possess : and consi- 

 dering the object of the group — to support a sacrificial vase (probably 

 of the juice of the grape) — it is excellent. It would be time well be- 

 stowed to survey all the temples and antiquities of Mathura, in search 

 for other specimens of Grecian art. Colonel Stacy can have no 

 greater inducement to undertake this pleasing task, than the posses- 

 sion of the highly interesting relic which we have made a faint at- 

 tempt to introduce to the eye of our readers in the accompanying 

 lithograph . — Ed . 



VII. — Description of some Grasses ivhich form part of the Vegetation in 

 the Jheels of the district of Sylhet. By William Griffiths, Esq. 

 Assistant Surgeon, Madras Establishment. 



Zizania ? ciliata. Spreng Syst. ii. p. 136; Kunth Agr.p.lQ. 



Leersia ciliata. Roxb. Fl. Ind. p. 207. 



Pharus ciliatus. Retz. Obs. 5. p. 23. 



Gramen in aquosis proveniens, culmis gracilibus ba s i longe repen- 

 tibus, articulis cylindraceis pubescentibus, caeterum laevibus. 



Folia subglaucescentia, linearia, acuta, supra lineata et tactu scabra, 

 margine subsimplici scabro. 



Spicae paucae, distantes, subsecundae, in paniculam nutantem alter- 

 natim dispositae. 



Spiculae solitariae, in apice cyathiformi pedicelli curvati articulatae, 

 subsessiles, unifiorae. 



Glumae nulla?, nisi cupulam membranaceam apicis pedicelli glumam 

 existimes. 



Paleae 2, chartaceo-coriaceae, compresso-carinatae, muticae, obtuse 

 mucronatae, brevissime stipitatae, stipite crasso rotundato ; exterior 

 5-venia, vena media (carina) duabusque marginalibus denticulato- 

 ciliatis, duabus intermediis subglabris, interveniis scabris ; interior 

 3-venia, paullo brevior, carina denticulato-ciliata, intervenio scabro, 

 caeterum laeviuscula. 



Lodiculae 2 carnosae, acinaciformes, integrae, glabrae. 



Stamina 6, antheris longe exsertis. 



