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Variat (lu humidioribus) tulmo valde elongate (4 — 4- pe- 

 dali) plurifoHato; foliis distantibus, vasinis elongalis glabris; 

 ' spied subqiiadripoUirari e faecicnlis 6—7 composita. 



g* Meycriaiia Knnlh, 354. — Drt-ge^ coll. no. 4364- 

 Ora orient. Africac ausfraK 



A. St bulbtfera Hoehst* (cmf'iid.) 



Rhizomale huJboso sioJonifero; rnlinls snbgeminis rrer- 

 lis scsqiiipcdalibus pcnnam columbinaju crassis pliiri- (6 — 8) 

 foliatis triangularibns j apicom ycrsiis iiilerdum scaliridis ; 

 foliis Tiridibis rigidiilis anguste linoaribiis vix lincam latis 

 4 — 10 poll, longis breyiler acutatis cannato-plaiiis, margin*! 

 nervisqae scabris; yaginis foliisque glabris (ad nervos quan- 

 doqiie parce pilosis)^ ore Iruucato rotmidato dense ciiiatis; 

 spioa c fascicnlis 8 — 6 composiits sobapproximalis con- 

 stincta, 3 — 4 poih alia; bractcis fasciculos pantm supcranti- 

 bus pilo5o-ciliati$ Tiridibus, basi dilatata colorata non raro 

 hirsiitjs; ppiciilis pliiribus dense fascKul*itis foemineis cmn 



y masculis mixfis lineaii*-oblongis obtusis 2 — 2^3 ^^^* ^^^^S'> 

 sqnamis late ovatis e carina cnR])idalis, cilialis snbglabrisquo 

 bracteatis; squamis iloralibns oyato-oblongo^lanceolatis eari- 

 natia ferrugineo-brunneis r, castaneo-brunneis, cxlerioribiis 

 aciitato-roiicronatis; interioribus snbmulicis; caryopsi (minu- 

 tula) globosa trigona t. rolnudo-oboTato subtriangiilari api- 

 ciilata lacunoso- v* Uibercuhfo-rugvlosay intordum snblacTi, 

 albida, last hreviss, atienuaia perigTiiio palente rartilaginoo 

 aiigiisto siibtrilobo coucrela, 



S, bulbilera Hodist. in Scbimii. iter. Abyss, ill- 1557* 

 — Richard K f. 510. * — * ^* atrosaiiguinca Hochst., antea 



sub: „S. cencbroldcs Knnthi*' gd, in Peliimp. it. Abyss. I- 



327. I. c. — Slnid. 175. 



