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CHINA. 
[ CyperacecB. 
Our plant has the inflorescence more elongated than Roxburgh attributes to his species, but all other points 
seem to agree ; the filaments are quite glabrous. It differs from T. thyrsijiora of Blume by the sheaths 
being ciliated or almost bearded at the mouth and along the margins. 
' Ord. LXXXVL ALISMACE^. B. Br. 
1. Sagittaria sagittifolia. Linn.? — Lour. FI. Coch. 2. p. 698. 
We have not received the leaves: the inflorescence is quite the same with the European plant. 
Ord. LXXXVIL PANDANE^. B. Br. 
1. Pandanus odoratissimus. Linn. Fil. — Lour. FI. Coch. 2. p. 739. — Boxb. FI. hid. 3. 
p. T^^.— Vachell, n. 77. 
Ord. LXXXVIII. AROIDEiE. Juss. 
1. Avum Colocasia. Linn.? 
We have seen only one specimen of the spatha and spadix without any leaves. 
1. Pothos Loureiri; parasitica radicans, petiolis planis folium simplex lanceolatum latitu- 
dine seqiiantibus longitudine excedentibus, florescentia subterminali, spatha lineari, spadice 
longo cylindraceo tenui erecto. — Flagellaria repens. Lour. FI. Coch. 1, p. 263. 
Very nearly allied to P. scandens, Linn. 
Ord. LXXXIX. CYPERACEZE. Juss. 
[The CyperacecR and Graminece form the most numerous and valuable part of the collections received 
from Canton, and from the extreme vagueness with which the Chinese and East Indian species of both 
orders have been usually described, it is necessary that they should be noticed more in detail than the 
other families. For the following account of them we are indebted to our friend Prof. C. G. Nees von 
Esenbeck of Breslau: and when we have added any species not elucidated in his MS., or have made any 
additional observations of our own, we have inserted them within brackets. The mere specific characters of 
most of the Cyperacea have been already published in Wight’s Contributions.] 
Trie. I. Cyperea;. N. ah E. 
1. CYPERUS. Linn.; N.ahE.in Wight's Contrib. Bot. Ind. 
1. C. pollystachyus. Rotth. — N. ah E.l.c.p.lb. (cum char, et syn.) — «; Millett. — /3; 
Vachell^ 70. <z. 
Var. /3 non differt, nisi gracilitate quadam, et radiis omnibus longiusculis. 
2. C. capillaris. Koen. — N. ah E. 1. c. p. 76. (cum char, et syn.) 
Spicula pollicis longae, lineam latse, valde compress® ; rhachill® inter squamas scrobiculis oblongis 
insculptm; carinula utrinque inter squamas undatim conspicua. Squamm arete imbricat®, basi membrana- 
cea rbachillam amplectentes, chartace®, lateribus l®vigat®, lute®, magisve aut minus brunnescentes, dorso 
angusto spatio viridi nervulo utrinque carinaque prominulis, oblong®, apice obtus®. Stamina duo. Cary- 
opses fuse®, foveis rhachill® rectangulis elongatis semi-immers®, obovat®, minutim punctulat®. 
