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 554 NAMES AND OBSERVATIONS ON INDIAN PLANTS.

This last degree of development of the pedicelled locusta extends to other species, and such species differ from Mani- suris merely in the form of the outer valve of the gluma of the sessile locusta.

Two other views, different from that here adopted, of the structure of Batzeburgia, have been taken ; the first by M. Kimth, who considers, and perhaps more correctly, the third squamula as the upper valve of the hermaphrodite flower. According to the second view, w r hich is obviously suggested by the figure, the locusta would be regarded as containing one flower only. — Brown.

��66] Aikinia Brunonis, Wall.

Foliis petiolatis, pedunculis solitariis pluribusve seriatis. —Brown.

Habitat in rupibus subumbrosis prope Ccepang in insula Timor; lecta florida et fructifera initio Aprilis anno 1803. — Brown.

Radix annua, fibrosa, brevissima. Caulis teres, succu- lentus, tenuissime pubescens pilis brevibus acutis ; 2 — 4 pollicaris, saspius parum ramosus, nunc simplicissimus. Folia petiolata, cordata, subovata, obtusa, repando-dentata, dentibus brevissimis, subsesquiuncialia, inferiora alterna, terminalia quandoque subopposita ; omnia super viridia, pilis brevibus acutis sparsis scabriuscula ; subter lsete viridia, glabra, pube brevissima nervum venasque primarias pin- natas tantum occupante. Petioli inferiores folia subae- quantes, pilosiusculi, semiteretes. Spicce unilaterales, cir- culate, racemosse, demum corymbosse, pedunculatge, rachi hinc (antice) pedicellis confertis ebracteatis, florescentia peracta sensim elongatis ; inde (postice) foliolio sessili, subrotundo, cucullato (Commelince ad instar) involucrata. Pedunculi laterales solitarii, et terminates 2 — 4 collate- rales, seriati inter folia duo subopposita, petiolata. Calyx liber, monyphyllus, tubulosus, pilosiusculus, viridis, se- miquinquefidus, dentibus sequalibus, erectis, acutis, per- sistens, post anthesin parum auctus limboque patente

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