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39. a, b. Culmi rigidi, r|-2 pedes alti, pennse gallinaceae vel scriptoriag tenuloris crassitie, subtorti, inferne 
tereti-compressi, superiora versus vel semiteretes vel insequaliter ex subtereti-uniangulati, striati, Iseves, 
glauci. Folia fasciculorum (sell, folia radicalia in fasciculos solito more collecta) gemina, vagina 
aphylla amplexa, culmo breviora, stricta, e semitereti compressa, apicem versus potius trigona, apice 
rigido fusco, margine Isevia. VagincB striatse, spice obtuse carinatse margine fusco-membranaceo in ligulam 
folio adnatam concurrente. Culmea duo, fasciculorum foliis similia, paullo crassiora, basi compresso- 
semiteretia, apice tereti-trigona; vagina ut in illis. Spica 2-G-pollicaris, decomposita, e spicis partialibus 
6-10 approxiraatis, alternis, tri-unipollicaribus, summis semipollicaribus. RacJiis depresso-semi-teres, losvis, 
altero latere canaliculate. Bractea sub singula spica partiali ovalis, scariosa, fusca, basi vaginans, apice 
contracto in mucronem rectum linearem planum obtusum procurrens, spica partiali brevior, nervoso- 
-striata pruinosa. Spica partiales 6-5, alternae, approximate, ovate, I-I5 poll, longe, bracteate. Spi- 
cula in ramulo suo subimbricate, gemiue vel solitarie, bracteola commuui simili aristulata longitudine 
spicularum stipate, lanceolate, H-2 lin. longe, compresse, squamis 5-6 equalibus trifariam imbricatis char- 
taceo-cartilagineis, oblongis, aentis, infra apicem mucronulatis, carinatis, snbenerviis, basi tenuioribus pallide 
rufis, apice crassioribus fuscis scabriusculis rigidioribns, omnibus prefer penultimam, que mascula, et termi- 
nalem que minor teneriorque et pallidior, sterilibus exstructe. Stamina tria, antheris linearibus mucronu- 
latis. Urceoli denticulati vestigia ovarium fulcientia. Stylus ad medium usque trifidus; ovarium oblongum, 
trigonum, in styli basin crassiusculam connivens. Spica fructifera major, subnutans. Cai-yopsis nucamen- 
tacea, ovalis, subtrigona, mucronulata, fusca, albo-irrorata, levis, basi perigynio brevi obconico cartilagineo 
acute sexdentato albo suffulta. 
[Our specimen, also collected by the Rev. Mr. Vachell, and under the same number from Professor Hens- 
low, does not quite agree with the above description ; we, therefore, insert also the specific character we had 
drawn up previously to receiving that by Prof. Nees von Esenbeck : — Culmo (apicem versus saltern) aphyllo 
glaberrimo Isevi tereti-compresso apice uniangulato, rachi leniter flexuosa, spiculis oblongis in spicis densis 
dispositis, spicis erectis inferioribus compositis ovato-oblongis breviter pedunculatis mediis subsessilibus, 
ovatis superioribus simplicibus confertim glomeratis, bracteis pruniosis omnibus spica propria multo breviori- 
bus, squamis oblongo-lanceolatis, exterioribus obtusiusculis sterilibus, interioribus carinatis acuminatis. — Thus 
the principal dilference consists in the low’er partial spikelets of our plant being peduncled, and forming a 
kind of panicle.] 
Trie. VI. ScLEraEA:, N. ab E. 
14. SCLERIA. Berg.; N. ah E. 1. c. 
1. S. ciliaris. N. ab E. 1. c. p. 117. (cum char.) 
Hab. In vicina Macao nrbis ; Millett; Vachell, n. 40. 
Culmus 1-2-pedalis altus, basi bulbosus, et purpureus. Folia inferiora culmum sequantia, 2 lineas lata, 
floralia 4-3 pollices longa, 2| lineas lata, omnia apice attenuata, apice ipso obtuso. Panicula axillares, 1-3, 
saturate purpurese, l|-2 poll, longse, basi ramosae, apice ramisque simpliciter spicatis. Bractea subulatm, 
basi dilatata purpurea, pilis rigidis ciliata. Spicula geminae, confertae. 
[To the description and character given by Prof. Nees Von Esenbeck, we may add that the caryopsis is at 
first only slightly rugulose, the elevated parts being covered with numerous short bristles : afterwards it is 
almost or quite glabrous ; the lobes of the hypogynium are obtuse and not more than one-fourth the length 
of the caryopsis. The margins of the leaves and sheaths are often only slightly scabrous.] 
[2. S. Neesiana; culmo argute triquetro stricto angulis scabris, foliis strictis linearibus 
acuminatis apice obtusiusculo supra versus apicem margineque scabris, vaginis trialatis mar- 
gine scabris, lobulo oppositifolio brevi subrotundo villoso-ciliato, paniculis axillaribus ter- 
minalique spicato-decompositis breviter pedunculatis ovatis, bracteis e basi dilatata brevi- 
