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ab ovario aversae. Ovarium sublagenaeforme, glabrum ; stylus lon- 

 giusculus. bifidus. Acbaenium inaequali-oblongum, utrinque attenu- 

 atum, obsolete trigonum, styli basi persistente acuminatum, pericarpio 

 tenui carnescente testaceo, nucleo lapideo nigro. 



2. P. squamaturD j Kurz. — Folia lato-linearia, acuminatissima, 

 trinervia, margine costaque spinuloso-serrulata, rigide coriacea ; culmi 

 abbreviati, £ — 1£ — pollicares, squamati, trigoni, obscuri ; capitula 

 oligo-rarius mono-stachya, compacta, oblonga ; squamae ellipticae, 

 obtusae v. apice laceratae, in sicco striatae, cbartaceae ; acbaenia 

 utrinque attenuata, bicarinata, rostrata. 



Hab. Java, in billy parts of Buitenzorg : Zippelius (in Mb. JBogor.) 

 Rhizoma lignescens, verticale v. obliquum, radices crassas demit- 

 tens. Folia trifarie equitantia, e basi complicate lato-linearia, acu- 

 minatissima, trinervia, lateribus deviis margine subtusque in costa 

 apicem versus spinuloso-serrulata, coriacea, 5 — 6 ped. longa, 1 — 1|- 

 poll. lata. Culmi e foliorum axillis erumpentes, abbreviati, ^ — 1^ 

 poll, longi, undique, praesertim basi, squamis ovato-oblongis concavis 

 acutis striatis obtecti, trigoni, striati, glabri. Spicae 2 — 3, capitato- 

 conglom'eratae, rarissime solitariae, oblongae, obtusae. Squamae un- 

 dique imbricatae, ellipticae, obtusae v. saepius lacerantes, in sicco 

 striulatae, fuscescentes, inferiores 4 — 5 vacuae saepe involucrantes, 

 reliquae spiculam 6-floram squama propria paullo longiorem andro- 

 gynam continentes. Flosculi 3 exteriores masculi, monandri, sequentes 

 ad squamulas reducti, tlosculus intimus excentricus femineus squamu- 

 lam vacuam amplectens. Squamulae laterales lineares, curvati> 

 carinato-naviculares, in carinis minute denticulatae. Acbaenium 

 adbuc (immaturum) oblongum, utrinque acuminatum, bicarinatum, 

 pericarpio tenui coriaceo, nucleo lapideo cinerascente apiculato. 



3. P. ZeylaniCUm, Thw. Enum. PI. Ceyl. 345. 

 Hab. * Ceylon : Thwaites, G. P. 3029 ; South Andamans. 



This species, which is not yet recorded from the Indian Archipela- 

 go, differs from the next one, P. Miquelianwn, especially by the 

 more robust and obtuse spikelets, which form a head, when fully 

 grown, not dissimilar to that of P. palnstre. The scales are 

 furnished by a broader white (in dried state brown) margin. Dr, 

 Thwaites describes his plant as having a clavate style, but the Anda- 

 man specimens have them normally two cleft. I saw the Ceylon 



