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exceeding tlie culm ; inflorescence a green spike, from 1 to 4 inches 

 long, sometimes interrupted here and there ; spikelets 3 to 7-flower- 

 ed ; florets distichous, smooth ; glumes 2, membranaceous, keeled, 

 subulate and awned at the apex, subequal and shorter than the 

 spikelet; stamen 1. Syn. Dactylis spicata, Willd ; Echinalysium 

 strictum, Trinius. In rice-fields in the cold weather ; looks some- 

 thing like Setaria at a little distance. 



Page 133, under N. balsamica, read " fruticose," instead of 

 " suffruticose." This is a shrub, 6 to 7 feet high, as seen at Dowud, 

 on the Sattara Road. Native name " Pirung." 



Page 148, under Cynanchum pauciflorum, instead of "anthers," 

 in 5th line, read " 5 of the folds." 



24, line 5 from bottom, for " Siliaceae,",, " Tiliacese." 

 26, Do. "iilimfolia," „ " ulmifoHa." 



28, line 24, for " pedicles," read " pedicels." 



30, „ 27, „ " Elentherandra," „ " Eleutherandra.'' 



32, „ 6, „ " Speurium," „ " Spurium." 



33, „ 6 from bottom,jfi?r " Sounnerat," „ " Sonnerat." 



