184 Catalogue of plants found in the Banda district. [No. 2. 



gerente lodiculis glabris carnosis apice emarginatis, stara. 3, anth. 

 flavis, ovario fusiformi, stylis basi approximatis, apice plumoso paullo 

 exsertis, semine longo sub -fusiformi magno caeruleo. 



The only described species of this genus is a native of Senegal ; 

 having seen only the Gen. Char, in Endlicher, I know not how far this 

 may differ specifically. It maybe the same. This plant grows pretty 

 abundantly on barren kunkury ground — old roads, &c. — at Banda it 

 has a very peculiar light straw colour. 



749. — Not knowing what the new specific name of this grass may 

 be, I have inserted the old one which no longer applies to it — it is the 

 Pommeruelle monceca of Roxb. and is frequently referred to under that 

 name in Griffith's Journals. 



750. This is Roxburgh's Eleusine calycina, referred by Kunth to 

 leptochloe — from which however the subulato-setaceous glumes would 

 repel it to some new genus. 



761. — This is the Agrostis maxima of Roxb. now Thysanolaena, but 

 I know not the specific name given. It is quite different from the 

 Thysanolsena abundant in the lower Himala. 



765, &c. — Of the Poas and Eragrostis I have several new species but 

 not being able to satisfy myself which are Roxburgh's without authen- 

 tic specimens of his, I refrain from describing any. 



I add a numerical abstract of the Flora according to families, dis- 

 tinguishing such as are wild and such as are only under cultivation. 

 It is interesting to compare this with the similar abstract for the floras 

 of the Sikh States and of Mooltan, showing the gradual decrease of 

 truly tropical families and the appearance of others of more temperate 

 regions. The extreme poverty of the Mallic flora is thus shown very 

 conspicuously. I hope soon to be able to communicate a detailed list 

 of the Mooltan flora as far as two years' experience of it goes ; — for the 

 difference is even greater than what would appear by this numerical 

 abstract. Notes on local floras are of great importance in working out 

 the geographical botany of India. 



Mooltan, October 7th, 1851. 



