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branches distantly verticillate along the main rhachis. It was 

 first received from the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, where it had 

 been raised from seeds brought from China by the Pere David; 

 but it has since turned up among Shearer's Kiu-Kiaug plants. 



7. Melinis, Beauv. {Tristegis, Nees, Suardia, Schrank), is a 

 single Brazilian species, Nees's original type of the tribe. It is 

 very near Anmdinella, but remarkable for the long slender awn 

 of the third empty glume, whilst the flowering glume is short, 

 without any awn. Doell has reduced the genus to a section of 

 Panicim, a view in which I can by no means concur. 



8. TniscENiA, Griseb., is a single Cuban species unknown to 

 me, but from the author's description it must be very near to the 

 following. 9. AETHEOPoaoif, Nees, a single Brazilian species, 

 well described and figured by Kunth. So also is 10. Eetnaudia, 

 Eunth, a single "West-Indian species allied to ArtJiropogon ; but 

 the awn, longest on the lowest glume, is gradually shortened and 

 reduced to a point on the flowering one, and there is no palea: 

 there are, however, four lodicules, a condition so unusual in 

 Graminese, that we might be tempted to consider the lowest pair 

 of lodicules, though close upon the others, as being in fact a 

 bipartite palea. 



11. Bhtncheltteum, Hochst., two or three tropical African 

 species, which appear to form a fairly distinct genus allied to Arun- 

 dinella, but approaching nearer to the A ndropogonese in the long 

 hairs of the lower glumes. The generic name was originally Nees's, 

 who applied it to a South- African plant of Drege's, which proves to 

 be scarcely even a variety of the Panicum {Tricholcena) roseum of 

 that country. Hochstetter and Steudel totally misunderstood 

 Nees's genus when they added to it their B. grandiflorum, and B. 

 ruficomum, which may now, however, retain those names, Nees's 

 genus being suppressed. 



12. Thts ANOE^NA, Nees {Myriachata, ZoU. and Mor.), is a single 

 tropical Asiatic species, a very tall grass with long broad leaves 

 and a very large full panicle, with innumerable minute spikelets 

 in dense clusters along its long crowded branches. The flowering 

 glumes are more or less covered with rather long hairs ; but these 

 hairs are so closely appressed and covered by the empty glumes 

 that Steudel could not see them, and published a supposed second 

 species as being destitute of them. Trinius figured the plant as a 

 Panicum ; by other early Indian botanists it was referred to 

 Agroitis. 



