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sueto rubenti-variegatas, longe pilosas, haud geminas, dense dispositas sibi 
incumbentes + 44 proereantibus composita; spiculis lanceolato-ellipticis, 
acutis, bene nervosis, = 4 mm longis et 1,75 mm latis; gluma | magna 
spieulam ad 3/, aequante, late sublineari, apice truncata et crenulata, 
i-nervia; gluma 2 spiculam ad #/, aequante, anguste elliptica, acuta, 
nervis 5 retatim conjunctis praedita; gluma 3 e late elliptico acuta, 7-nervia, 
glumam sequentem aequante, in axilla „florem perfectum cj cum palea 
maxima per anthesin bene emergente, glabra fovente; gluma 4 lanceolato- 
elliptica, apice sensim acuta et hic pilosula, coriacea, straminea, laevi, niti- 
dula, paleam optime rotundatam, glabram, dense carinato-marginatam 
longe superante. 
Kapland (WanrrwsenG in Herb. Holm.). 
P. (8 Brachiaria) nidulans Mez n. sp.; perennis videtur, e rhizomate 
brevissimo radices perlongos proferente densissime rosulateque oo-ramosàa 
nidum solo adpressum vix ultra 60 mm altum et 150 mm diam. metientem 
pulviniformem formans. Folia basi in vaginas vix carinatas, dorso optime 
pubescentes producta; ligulis in lineam arcuatam, longe pilosam mutatis; 
laminis suberectis vel suberecto-patentibus, lanceolatis vel ovato-lanceolatis, 
basi anguste rotundatim contractis haud  amplexicaulibus, apice acutis, 
planis, rigidulis, nervo medio manifestiore deslitutis, margine ne ad basin 
quidem ciliatis anguste pallido-marginatis inferne laevibus superne scabridis 
non nisi leviter vel vix undulatis, utraque facie dense molliterque pubes- 
centibus, = 20 mm longis et 4 mm latis. Culmi florigeri decumbentes, 
toti foliorum vaginis dense induti, cum nodis pilosi. Inflorescentia pauci- 
flora, subseeunda, subsessilis folium summum subduplo superans, paupere 
2-pinnatim panniculata; axibus optime (nec complanato-Jangulatis, densius- 
cule pilosis, in spiculas virgentes desinentibus, haud vel leviter undulatis; 
ramis laxiuseule pinnatim axi insertis, suberecto-erectis, infimo totam in- 
florescentiam sueto ad !/, aequante, laxe subsecundeque spiculas ramulorum 
inlimas omnes geminas proferentibus; spiculis erectis, omnibus pedicellis 
conspicuis sed brevioribus, angulatis, longe strigosis stipitatis, breviter 
pilosis, leviter striatis, ex elliptico acuminatis, virentibus vel purpurascen- 
libus, = 3,5 mm longis et 1,5 mm latis; gluma 4 spiculam ad !/, vel 
paullo infra aequante, apice late obtusiusculeque triangulari, 7-nervia venis 
transversalibus semper manifestis; gluma 2 normaliter sequentem aequante, 
ex elliptico acutiuscula, 7-nervia, venis transversalibus in parte superiore 
sueto manifestis; gluma 3 praecedenti isomorpha sed 5-nervia vel sequenti 
aequali tunc rigida rugosaque, in axilla constanter paleam floris abortivi 
eonspieuam, aculiusculam vel emarginatam, fere glabram fovente; gluma 4 
ex elliptico apice acuminulata, ossea, alutacea vel lutescente, bene rugulosa, 
nitidula, paleam anguste rotundatam, dorso valde carinato-marginatam 
superante, 
