105 
Variat staminodiis minntissimis: F. microlepis Kunth le — 
Drege, n. 433839. 
Gorsica. Prom. bon. spei. India orient. 
9. F. simplex Vahl. 
Viridis; eulmo tenni 9—18 poll, alto flexuoso debili v. 
firmo, obsolete quadrangulari m. m. compresso, striato, 3—6- 
phyllo, apice pedunculisque pubescenti-hirtulis, veliqua parte 
glabro; foliis rigidulis erecto -patulis sublanceolato -linearibus 
saepe acuminatis, planis ecarinatis siriatis, marginihus saepis- 
sime ptloso-ciliatis, 1—4 poll, long. 1 — 3lin. lat; vaginis 
abbreviatis, "oa —1-pollic., paulo ampliatis striatis glabris; 
ligula iruncata perhrevi ciliata; pedunculis simplieibus v. ra- 
mosis, 1—5-stachyis subnutantibus tereti- subangulatis, termi- 
nalibus pluribus umbellatim aggregatis % — "4 poll. long. suh- 
sessilibusque, lateralibus subsolitariis remotis elongatis; bracteis 
ramorum saepe et pedunenlorum Superior. perangustis brevi- 
bus, basi pilosa vaginantihus; spiculis magnis v. ovato-ohlon- 
gis ovatisque acutis v. eylindraceo- oblongis obtusis, 5—3 lin. 
long.; squamis rigidulis v. scariosis trinerviis pubescentihus, 
inferioribus insnper pilosis, ferrugineo-brunnescentihus v. viri- 
dulis, arista longiuscula subrecurvato - patula; caryopsi permi- 
nuta longe v. breviuscule pedicellata subrotunda triangulari, 
angulis prominentibus acntinseulis, mucronata laevi v. obsolete 
transversim rugosa, testacea v. fuscescente, nitida; staminodiis 
rigidulis (raro membranaceis) caryopsin parum superantibus 
pedicellatis oblongo-ovaris obtusis muticis v. aristulatis, basi 
truncato-subcordatis ibique trinerviis, ferrugineis glabris; 
setis 3 brevibus. — ÖOceurrit forma macra glomerulo solitario 
3—1-stachyo sessili. ' 
F. simplex et $. obtusiflora Vahl, 384. — F. simplex 
et F. obiusiflora Kunth, 183. 
