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‚ Plauta 1%, — 5-polliearis; var. % 3 — 8-polliearis. 
Canlis perhrevis. Folia eespitosa, setacto- vel angusie linsa-: 
via, subulata, glabra, membranacen, pellueida, fenestrato- 
nervosa, I/ — 3"/, pollices longs, medio (in yar. 'y.) usque 
fere ®/, lineam lata, plerumque multo angustiora. Pedunculi 
per plures aggregati, .raro solitarli glabrt, leviter 5-suleati, 
foliie longiores, 11/,—5-pollicares, - Vaginae arctiusculae, 
oblique fissae, glabrae, foliis. plus minus breviores, 1 polli- 
eem longae vel multo breviores. Capitula glaberrima, ovato- 
globosa, in var. y. usque 13/, lineas lata et einerascentia, in 
var. veliguis minora et pallidiora, interdum favida. . Brastese 
involuerantes oblongae, ohtusae, glabrae, membranaceae, ca- 
pitulis multo breviores, siramineo-pallidae vel cinerascentes, 
sensim sensimque in bräcteas ores stipantes jis similes acu- 
{as flores snperanies et obtegentes transenntes. -- Beceptacu- 
lam pilosiusculum vel glahrum. Flores parvi, plerique femi- 
nei. Masculi longe pedicellati: Perigonii exterioris partes 3 
postice in spatham obovatam apiee 'tridentatam vel trilobam 
eusullatam glabram membranaceam pallidam vel plus minus 
vinerascentem antice apertam basi elausam connatae. Peri- 
gonii interioris partes in tubum faretum albidum trilobum con- 
natae, lobis perparvis gläbrinseulis uno paullo majore, intas 
gtandula fusen instruelis. Stamina 6; antheris rotundis, albi- 
dis, In eentro pistilli effeli rudimentum triplex, Flores femi- 
nei pedicellati: Perigonii exterioris partes 3 liberae, angı- 
stissime lineares, subfalcatae, acutiuseulae, glabrae, hyalino- 
albidae, una mulla minore, eito deeiduae, Perigonium inte- 
rlus nullun,. _Germen longiuseule. stipitatum, stipite apice 
toberenlis miuimis obsito, frieocemm. Stylus germine Jongior, 
Stigmata 3 Kliformia, ‘Semina ovata, apieulata, laevia, fa- 
“ vido-fusea, — Valde dubite, speeimina abyssinien a el. Bi-_ 
ehard sub nomine Eriosauli serangularis L. (synonymeo 
