4tt 



]i«ar&.i4t iiii'.pi Eckl. -^ K^tttrugona aj. is kvrb. T«p/Bev0l. 

 ^'.J&, auruta Kmith herb^ (urlim. 



From* b. Bpei, (Eekh et Zeil* ~ Dr«ge, c«IL 0^.8^31.) 



5. H« nervo«n Slend. 



Viridis; rhixomate breri subligooso nodDSo-crftsrinscttlo 

 foliorum retidftia bruuneiB denst obteeU; ciilmo temii 8ob^ 

 flexuDSO 4 ti*po)ticari rompresso-triaDgalari giahro but 

 plurifolialo; foliis aogaatis hreviter acuminatis fomplirailis 

 siibcurvatieque margmibus spinuhsisf ioTolacri foliolis 3 re- 

 flexis; rapitalo simplici ovato v, wato-glohoso (SVi ^^^* 

 frasso); Bpiculis rix 1 '/g ''^- ^^^%- ohlongo ^ eUipticis ^ basi 

 ohliquis ^ ^avfdo " hrunnescentibus faifloris; flore nlro^ie fer- 

 (ili triandro; squamis Soriferia iaaequalibns breriter mncro- 

 uatia, mucroDibuB pateoti - reearvis , atrialo-nervosifli iDferiorf 

 latmbis Baepissime 8-uervia, BOperiore (Bquamam lertiam 

 Tariiain dod rare ineladeDleJ 6-^— ^-nervia, carina haad viridi 

 rare epiDulosa; carjopsi satiB voinpresaa oblongu apice 9ub' 

 truncata flaridai stylo rix pxserto sapra mediam nsqiiQ hU 

 fido; filamentis eloog&lis antherisque angustis. 



A. nervosa Stead, in Rcgt-nst). Fl. 1849. p. 597* et Syiu 

 p. 70. — Scbimp. iter Abjssin. Sect. H. 1375. 



Abjssiuia. 



Spciic8 baec el pae«u)iima K, auraUte maximfl affinci., 



Culmo (ennisBimo apice Iriquetro Tprsns baBin IrivagiDato 

 isubiiDifolio; foliiB rigidulh eroclis hrevihus ot angastia (1 »- 

 S poll lougM ^U '■■>• 'a^O carinato-planiDBcnKs breriler aru* 

 ninatis apice margivibus Bpifiulosis; floraUbu? $>y. %'<^ectis 

 culmeia plane similibusj eapilulo eotitario tttinimo i "^ix -t^BLf^ 

 lineam laio; spirulis (baud omuiuo apevtia) ^j^Mn.iaugh an- 

 guste ohlongh vix parum obliquis QDifloris) sqaamis aequa-r 



