Graminece.] 



CHINA. 



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[This is probably the same as Nees von Esenbeck lias observed a fragment of among Prof. Roylc's plants 

 (ji. 81.) from the north of Bengal, and which he has in his MSS. designated " Arundinis (Donacis, Beauv.) 

 species Madagascariensi, Kunth, seu Donaci Thouarsii, Beauv. affinis." Indeed, so far as the description 

 goes, which he has kindly communicated to us, the two appear identical.] 



Trip.. VIII. CHLORIDEiE. — Chlorides et Pappophore^e. Kunth. 

 22. LEPTOCHLOA. P. de Beauv. 



1. L. filiformis ; spiculis subsessilibus 2-3-floris muticis, glumis scabris, spicis parti- 

 alibus filiformibus patulis, inferioribus oppositis aut subverticillatis, reliquis alternis, 

 vaginis e tuberculis pilosis. Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. 2. p. 580. Kunth, En, 1. p. 270. 

 — Eleusine filiformis. Jacq. Eel. Gr. t. 4. — Poa virgata. Roth, Nov. PL Sp. p. 66. — (3; 

 humilior. Kunth, I. c. 



Hab. /S, Circa Macao, et in insulis vicinis ; Millett ; G. H. Vachell, n. 58. 



2. L. chinensis ; spiculis pedicellatis patulis . r )-6-floris mnticis adpresso-puberulis sub- 

 ciliatis, glumis scabris, racemis filiformibus laxis sparsis approximatimque verticillatis, 

 vaginis compressis foliisque glaucis scabris, culmo basi repente. N. ab E. inSyll. Ratisb. 

 (1822) 1. p. 5. Roem. et Sch. Mctnt. 2. p. £09.— Poa chinensis. Roxb. El. Ind. 1. p. 332; 



(ed. Wall.) 1. p. 333 P. malabarica. Linn. Sp.Pl.p. 100 (excl. syn. Burm.). — /3; culmo 



erecto racemoque strictioribus, spiculis purpureo-variegatis P. chinensis. Roth, Nov. 



PI. Sp. p. 65. — y; laxa, culmo humiliore, racemi ramis patulis laxis, spiculis ut in (3 sed 

 fere ornnino glabris. 



Hab. Circa Macao ; Millett. 



Spicularum pedicello licet brevi, flosculorum numero et pubescentia magis minusve conspicua, foliorum 

 glaucedine, satis distincta species. Rhachilla spicularum gracilis et flexilis, ubi flectitur fiosculos separatos et 

 veluti ])edicellatos ostendit, qui quidem minime earn ob causam " pedicellati" cum Rothio appellandi sunt, 

 cum pedicellus, quem diceres, non inter singulum flosculum et rhachillam positus sit, sed inter flosculum 

 quemque inferiorem proximeque superiorem. 



23. ELEUSINE. Gartn. 



1. E. Indica; culmo compresso basi ssepe repente ramoso, vaginis ore sa?piusque et 

 margine villosis, spicis rectis strictis, rhachi angusta a?quali, spiculis subsexfloris, semine 

 ovali. Gartn. de Fr. 1. p. 8. t. 1. N. ab E. Agr. Bras. p. 439 (cum syn.) Roxb. EL Ind. 



1. p. 345; (ed. Wall.) 1. 346. Kunth, En. 1. p. 272. Trin. Ic. Gr. t. 71 (3; depau- 



perata; spicis 3, spiculis 3-4-floris, culmo humili. Kunth, I. c. — y; meter ostachya; spicis 

 longis apice abortu spicularum attenuatis magis corymbosis quam digitatis, foliis culmo 

 multo brevioribus. 



Hab. Ad Macao et in insulis vicinis; Millett; G. H. Vachell, n. " W" et " X" (ex parte). 



2. E. Coracana ; culmo erecto compresso simplici, vaginis ore barbatis, spicis latis 

 demum incurvis, rhachi margine dilatata aetate repanda, spiculis subsexfloris dilatatis 



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