1852.] Catalogue of plants found in the Banda district. 133 



uno centrali $ pedicellato intra duos $ pedicellato, 1. 4 ext. pedicellis 

 pilis albis circumdatis, glumis 2, acutis ellipticis, exteriore 5-7 nervi, 

 nervis plus minus papulosis glabris Tel exterioribus ciliatis, interiore 

 3-nervi glabra. Paleis 2 linearibus hyalinis apice laceris, stam. 3-an- 

 theris luteis, lodiculis parvis oblique obcuneatis erosis. 



Loc. $ centralis pedicello pauce piloso, gluma exteriore ovata acu- 

 minato apice bidentata, basi glabra ceterum puberula interi. glabrd sub 

 3-nervi acuta, margine inflexo, palea hac lineari in aristam longam 

 tor tarn geniculatam hispidam producta, p. altera hyalina truncata 

 ovarium amplectente lodiculis minutis, ovario ovato in stylis angustato, 

 stigmatibus dense plumosis ; locustis 2 6* ut supra sed glabris. 



This comes next to A. Wightii from which it differs in more erect 

 habit, ciliate involucres and awned flowers and minute Iodides which 

 are large in Wightii. It is moreover generally of a reddish hue. 

 Wightii and prostrata are bright and pale green : like them this has, 

 but in a still stronger degree, a most offensive smell exactly like that 

 of a bed-bug whence the specific name I have given it. It grows on 

 the margins of ponds and overflowed pasture land. 



734 — This I have referred with a doubt to funicularis, the leaves 

 of my plant are beset with long scattered hairs, not smooth as describ- 

 ed, and Ruprecht does not allude to the arista being 3-cornered which 

 appears a peculiar character. The inner glume is pale purple. 



739. — I have 3 species certainly distinct all of which answer the 

 descriptions of Coix lachryma as far as they go — and I am unable to 

 say which is the true one. 



741. — Chloris Roxburghii. — This is well described by Roxb. 

 under the name Melica digitata, it is very distinct with very long 

 linear spikes which hang loosely down. 



748. — Sch^enfeldia pallida — Annua, ramosa, glabra, vaginis 

 margine ciliolatis ligulet ciliato-membranaced, foliis linearibus hinc 

 illinc pilis perpaucis sparsis demum convolutis, spicis geminis (raso 

 solitariis ternisve) secundis confertifloris (2^ 3 uncialibus) rachis mar- 

 gine serrulato, locustis 1 floris sessilibus bifariis, glumis 2 persistenti- 

 bus acute carinatis nervo medio sulcatis, apice in setulam productis, 

 in priore majore paleis plus duplo longiore, flore in callo sericeo stipi- 

 tato bipaleaceo, p. exteriore majore alteram plana enervem involvente. 

 Extus puberula sub apicem fissurn aristam logissimum hispidum 



