FLORA 
NE 16. 
Begensburg. 28. April. 1844. 
Inhalt: Hochstetter, Gramima nova Africana. — Schultz, Er- 
klärung. 
Personal-Notizen. Ehrenbezeigungen. Beförderungen. Todesfall. 
Anzeigen von Preiss, Lehmann, Hofmeister, Kummer, Mar- 
eus, Miquel, Brunner und Reichenbach. 
Gramina nova Africana proponit et describit CH. F. 
HOCHSTETTER. 
I. Ex tribu Andropogonearum. 
1. Andropogen exilis Hochst, (In pll. exsicc. Un. itin. 
ex Kotschyi it. Nubico nr. 370. et in Kotschyi Flora aethio- 
pica exsiec. nr. 19.) 
Radix annun, culmus erectus tenuis spithamaeus usque pedalis, 
subramosus, glaber; folia radicalia brevia plana glabriuscula, culmeo- 
rum 1—3pollicarium basi saepe pilis longis instructerum vaginae stria- 
tae, ligula truncata; rami vel peduncali bini filiformes arrecti inaequa- 
les monostachyi; spica bracteam spathaeformem glabram vix egrediens, 
3— Anodis; spiculae geminae aristatae, altera sessilis fertilis, altera 
pedicellata tabescens; rhacheos nodi barbati; spiculae sessilis biflorae 
gluma inferior uninervis glabriuscula acuta, superior convoluta biner- 
vis bifida extus birsuta, floseulus inferior imipaleaceus, superior her- 
maphroditus bipaleaceus, palea inferior bifida, ex ineisura aristam ge- 
niculatam inferne tortam et atrofuscam, glumis triplo vel quadruplo 
longiorem emittens; spieula pedicellata tabescens uniglumis, gluma 
subbifida 5nervia (solummodo nervis marginalibus validis) exigua, in 
aristam rectam triplo longiorem producta, palea nulla. 
Ad latus orientale montis Cordofani Arasch - Cool locis humidis 
habitat. 
2. Andropogoen brachyatherus Hochst. (ln pi. ex- 
sice. Un. it. ex Kotschyi itin. Nubico nr. 368.) 
Flora 1844. 16. 16 
