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Ibyrsoldea, ovalo-oblonga, obtusa, 1 — 2 p<^lUces longa. 

 KhachJs communis scafara. Kami alterni, semipblllcares, 

 bivli, ibyrsoideo-racemulosi, ramulis subfasciculalis inae- 

 (jualibus uni-quadriSoris hirtis. Pedicelli gracUes, iucurvi, 

 f scabri, spicula duplo salterh breviores, apice cflllosi sub- 



batiiati. Spiculac sesquilinearcs » ovalae, compressae. 

 Glumae mcmbranaceae, carinatae, tuberculatae selulisqne 

 tubercuHs impositis appressis jscabrac, carina pGctinato- 

 ciUaiaCj pallidae; inferior minor et angnstiorj oblongo- 

 lanceolala, sublilato - acuminala, uninervis^ superior (dum 

 explanelur) suborbicularls, Irinervis, nervis laleralibus ante 

 apicem abbreviafis, carlnali in settan biliuearem scabram 

 puvpurascenlem ex apice integro prominente. Flosculi 

 calyce duplo breviores pedicellati. Pedicellas communis 

 floscnlo dimidio brevior, incurvus, glaber, basi relrorsura 

 cum callo obtiiso squamiformi cbuiunctus, sub floscnlo 

 calloso-^bbosus pilisque paucis {3—6) flosculi dimidii 

 longitudinis tanquam involucrp barbalus. Flosculus inferior 

 an, callo communis peduneuli sessilis, -I Hnea vix longior, 

 bermapKroditus , muticus: valvulii inferior ovaU, compli- 

 cata, dorso obtusa, integra, laevis, pallida, quinquenervis^ 

 cbariacea, in, fructu subcartilagiuea; superior inclosa, aequ,e 

 longa, linearis, bidentata, marginlbus inflexis compressaj 

 ™agis membranacea. Lodiculae obcomcae, obtu^ae, in- 

 ^egvae. Germen crpceum, Slyli -duo; stigmata penicillala, 

 pallida. Antberae luleae. Flosculus alter neuter, pedi- 

 cellalus, cum pedicello hermapbi^oditum flosculum aequaus- 

 Pedicellus canali valvnlae superioris ilosculi hermapbroditi 

 Jmmersus, apice callosus nee bf^vbatus;; valvula inferior 

 lanceolata, bidentataj trinervJs, glabra, Jnfm apicem^dens 

 anslam sive selam lineae longitndints, e basi tenniori sc- 

 laceanij glabram, yufescentem, incdio in rectum angulum 

 fcrc infiexam; superior val\ula'ct paries' fm'cUtotioins 

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