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5. The same as No. 4, seen from within, removed from the axis 
and bract, showing, as in Nos. 1 and 2, the bicarinate spathella. 
6. A lateral branch of the spike, with 3 spiculse; terminal one 
normal, without spathella, lateral ones male, with sterile spathella. 
Tab. CCCIX. /3. minor. A specimen from the island of Bourbon 
{Bernier), with a simpler inflorescence. 
The perigynia are represented as punctulate,—a character I 
have not observed, and I suspect the base of the setae gave M. 
Maubert the idea of it. In what I consider as the true G. ramosct 
of Schkuhr, from the Mauritius, the perigynia, both in specimens 
from Petit-Thouars, and from Bojer in Herb. Hooker, have dis¬ 
tinct, resinous, ferruginous spots. 
In this remarkable group the general direction of the perigy- 
nium varies in the same spicula, being erect or slightly oblique at 
top, and gradually more and more excurved towards the base of 
the spicula. The excurved form, however, varies in degree in dif¬ 
ferent species. It is a very striking character, from the early de¬ 
velopment of the perigynium in G.filicina, Nees. 
250. C. cryptostachys (Brongniart); spica plus minus 
elongata lineari viridi demum olivaceo-ferruginea, e spi- 
culis 8-10 vel pluribus oblongis linearibus apice masculis 
erectis exserte pedunculatis in racemis radicalibus aphyl- 
lis simplicibus vel deorsum compositis alternatim disposi- 
tis ; bracteis vaginatis subulato-bracliyphyllis; stigmati- 
bus 8, brevibus; perigyniis oblongis vel oblongo-obovatis 
stipitatis compresso-biconvexis rostellatis, ore subobliquo 
bidentato, crebre striato-nervosis superne scabris margi- 
nibus ciliatis, squama subrotunda ovata obtusa mutica 
vel abrupte apiculata mucronata plus minus vaginato- 
amplectente longioribus.—C. cryptostachys, Brongn. Voy. 
de la Coquille, Buperry, t. 25 ; Kunth, 513. (Tab. 
CCGX.) J 
Hab. In India orientali. China. Penang, Wallich, n. 
3383. Offack, Ins. Waigiou, N. Guinea, Burville. Tou- 
ran, Cochin China, Gaudicliaud (Herb. Mus. ParisJ. Java, 
Zollinger (Herb. Mus. ParisJ. Hongkong, Wright. 
U. S. Pac. Exped., Br. Harland. 
Culmi 6-12-poll., plures ex eadem radice, aphyUi, fere e basi 
spieuliferi, graeiles. Folia 3-5 lin. lata, culmos longe super- 
antia, plana, apice longe attenuata, striato-nervosa, rigida. 
Bracteae vaginatse, subulatee, spiculis breviores. Vaginae 3-12 
lin. longse, intus scabriusculse. Spica 6-10 poR. longa, in 
eadem planta simplex vel basi e ramis plus minus longis com- 
posita. Spiculae 3-14' lin. longse, It lin. latse, apice incon- 
spicua masculse. Squamae subinde plus minus vaginantes. 
Perigynium (cum stipite ~ :i lin. longo) 1 T 8 -,,- lin. longum, T A 
lin. latum. Achenium (cum stipite calloso tumido aurantiaco 
-A lin. longo) 1~ lin. longum, J- 0 - lin. latum, depressionibus 
undique distortum, fuscum ; basi styli deorsum recurvata, 
sequali. 
This remarkable species, originally found by Dr. Wallich at 
Penang, was not noticed till Brongniart described and figured it 
among the plants collected in the voyage of the ‘ Coquille.’ I am 
indebted to M. Spach for the knowledge of its having been found 
in Java and Cochin China, and to Dr. Gray and Mr. Bentham for 
its being a native of Hongkong. It belongs to the Bactylo- 
staehyce of Drejer. 
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