Explanation of Figures. 



Plate XVI. 



Fig. 1. Flowering panicle of Saccharum spontaneum x f . 

 „ 2. Culm and leaf of same species x f . 

 „ 3. Ligule of same x f . 

 „ 4. Portion of culm of same with axillary shoot, the culm is solid above and 



fistular below, (a) the culm node, (b) the leaf insertion x f . 

 „ 5. Culms of same with an erect habit of growth originating from the nodes of an 



older culm. Note the short internodes C, C, at the base of the culms, (a) the 



culm node, (b) the leaf insertion x f . 

 „ 6. Base of culm of same showing the spreading habit of growth; CC the short 



internodes at base of culm x f . 

 7. Flowering spikeiet of same x 6. 



