624 



(5) B. AEUNDo. (Klein.) 



Ident. Nees in Linn. ix. p. 471. 



Spec. Chak. Culms thorny, 8 — 9-feet : moutlis of the sheaths 

 naked : floral leaves ovate-knceolate, rounded at the base, shortly- 

 petioled, smooth: spike terminal, ample, leafy, branches spreading, 

 simple or compound : spikelets one inch long, erect, approximated 

 in three's, upper ones alternate, 6 — 8-flowered. 



Western Ghauts. 



GENUS XLI. MELOCATTNA. 

 Hexandrla Trig'y nia. Sex: S^st .- 



Berk. From Melon an apple ; alluding to the fruit. 



Gen. Chae. Spike compound: spikelets attenuated, cylindric- 

 oblong, fascicled, long-peduncled, peduncle jointed : bracts long- 

 involucrate, 3 — many-flowered, lower florets male or 1-valved 

 neuter, upper floret 2-valved, hermaphrodite : ovary ovate : stigmas 

 villous : pericarp very large, hard, fl^eshy, glabrous, point curved 

 inwards. 



(1) M. BAMBTTSoiDEs. (Trm.) 



Ident. Tria. in Eupr. 1. c, p. 64. 



Syn. B. baccifera, Roxh'. I. c. p. 197. 



Engrcm. Koxb. Cor. III. t. 243. 



Spec. Chak. Culm unarmed, very lofty^ 50 — 60-feet, erect, 

 apex only branched : leaves bifarious, short-petioled, broadly ovate- 

 lanceolate, glabrous : ovaries perceptibly canescent, exceeding the 

 valves, conical, long-acuminate, when ripe transformed into apple- 

 shaped fruit with a long incurved acumen : seed solitary, broad, 

 ovate. 



Chittagong mountains. 



(2) M. EHEEDn. (Rv/pr.) 



Ident. Eupr. 1. c. 65. — Steudel 1. c. p. 332. 



Syn. Beesha Eheedii, Kunth. 



Migrcm. Eheede Mai. v. t. 60. 



Spec. Chae. Fruticose, ai-borescent, 16-feet: leaves arundi- 

 naoeous, lanceolate, glabrous : spikes cone-shaped at the nodes of 



