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usque in lacinias subulato-trianoulares glabraS fissa, aristam 

 exserens glabram 14 mm. longam. Spiculae pedicellatae mas- 

 culae oblongae, sessiles aequantes, virides 5 2;luma Ima superne 

 inaequaliter alata, apice aristam ea duplo breviorem exserens, 

 superne parce pilifera. 6 — 7-nervis; 11*^^ '/g— subduplo brevior, 

 mutica, clliata; Ilia et IVa Iltiam subaequantes, lineari-oblongae, 



enerves, ciliatae. Antherae 3, 1'5 mm. Ig. 



India orientalis: in raontibus Nilgerries Ig. Perrotefc 

 nr. 1315. Affinis A. ahyssinico Brown, qui differfc spica altera 

 siibsessili, laminis flacciduliSj arista glomae Il^iae (spiculae ?) 

 erecta, spicis dense villosis. 



Sect. E, Amphilophis Trin. 



25) A, Wrighiii. Perennis. Culmi erecti, 50 — 80 cm. alti, 

 simplices, teretes, infra nodos glabros subpruinosi. Vaginae 

 teretes, laeves, pruinosae ; ligula brevis, (1 mm.J trtincata, 

 glabra. Laminae e basi subangustata lineares , setaceo-acu- 

 minatae, 15 — 20 cm. Ig., 4—5 mm. It, planae, rigidae, subtus 

 glauco-pruinosae, glabrae, utrinque laeves, margine scabrae, 

 costa media subtus prominula percursae. Pauicula longe 

 exserta, 3— 4-spicata, spicis subdigitatis, subfasfcigiatis ; rliachis 

 communis glabenuma pruinosula; rami simplices basi breviter 

 (cc. 4 — 6 mm.) nudis, in axillis glabri. . Spicae cc. 4 cm. Ig., 

 crassiusculae, brunneo-virescentes, parce pilosae, rectae; rhaeheos 

 articuli pedicellique lineares, spicula sessili V3 breviores, medio 

 late sulcati atque hyalini, marginibus crassis ciliis albis accre- 

 scentibus (summis articulo pauUo brevioribus) vestiti. Spiculae 

 sessiles 5*5 — 6 mm. Ig., oblongae; glum a I^ia coriaceo- 

 chartacea obtusissima margine superne anguste im- 

 plicata, flexuris setuloso-ciliatis, V-nervis, secus nervum medium 

 leviter impressa, nervis infra apicem hyalinum desinentibus, 

 dorso glaberrima, nitens, callo brevi pilis gluma 4 — 5- 

 plo brevioribus vestita; IKa chartacea, late lanceolata, acutiu- 

 scula, 3-nervis, elevato-carinata, carina margineque superne 

 breviter ciliatis; IVa Ys brevior^ anguste linearis, stipitiformis, 

 crassa, glabra, abiens in aristam 12 — 13 mm. Ig., cujus columna 



recta scaberula subulam subaequat Spiculae pedicellatae c/5 

 sessiles aequantes, lineari-oblongae; gluma Jma obtusiuscula, 

 margine in Va superiore spinuloso-ciliata, 9 — nervis, glabra; 

 Ilda obtusa, 3— S-nervis, Ilia brevior, enervis ; IVa 0. Antherae 3, 

 1*5—2 mm, longae. 



