% brewiore pyriformi, acute .triangulari, lateribus- convexis,. 
apice subemarginato-iruncata longitudinaliter striata itranı- 
verseque lineolata, fuscescanti-straminea, styli basi minutis- 
sima depressa concolore terıninata; stylo teaui, stigmatibus 3 
exsertis, — Antherae parvae ohlongo -ellipsoideae brevissime 
imueronatae, 
Isolepis Hochst, in Schimp, pl. Ay. 239. — Rich, 
l. c. 501. Steud. Syn, 101. 
Abyssinia. 
118. 8. barbatus Rotib. 
Viridis; radice fihrosa tenui; eulmis numerosis dense oae- 
spitosis ereetis v. procumbentibus setaceis v. filiformibus valde 
inaequalibus, 1—5, interdum ad 10 poll. .alt,, quadriqueteis 
sulcatis laevibus glabrisve, v. sarsum spinuloso - scabriuscelis 
aut hispidulis, basi plerumque paucifoliatis (raro pl. m. com- 
pressis .obsolete. angulatis); foliis: oulmo brevioribus setaceis 
v. eapillaribus acutis canaliculatis,, infra nervosis spinuloso- 
scaberrimis; vaginis laxis fissis membranaceis steamineo-Serru- 
ginescentibns ore piloso-barbatis; capitalo Iri— polystachyo he- 
misphaerico v. raro globose (3-5 lin. lat.); involueri I— 
phyläi foliolis setaceis capitulo brevioribus v. longioribus, basi 
saepe ciliatis; spiculis oblongis acutiusculis primo compressis 
2—3 lin. longis 6—12-foris; syquamis membranaceis. late ova- 
tis angusie navicularibus acuminato-mucronatis, carina 
prominente trineryata non raro spinulosa, apice subreourva- 
to-patulis, lateribus aaepiss, adpresso-hiriellis saepius stra- 
mineo -purpurascentibus; car. perminuta squama plus daplo 
breviore late obovata aequilatere triangulari vertice depressin- 
scula, applanato - granulata v. undulato -rugunlosa albida v. fa- 
scescente, tuberculo minuto hrunneo ; stylo pertenui vix exserto 
breviter trifido; stam. 1, saro 3. 
