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sheaths it approaches more nearly to the former than to the 

 latter ; but, on the other hand, the spikelets are many-flowered. 



An hue planta mascula cnjus notas adjicio, a Dregio (n, 1G51) 

 et Burchellio (n. 8719) lecta? 



Cnlmi erecti, teretes, simplices, crassitie pennae gallinacese, fusci, im- 

 presso punctulati. Vagince culmem deciduse, basi annulum nigrum 

 rehnquentes. Panicula mascula terminalis, oblonga, erecta, plun- 

 ramosa, pluristachya, spathis spatheUisqae rauuita, illis apertis, ellip- 

 ticis, coriaceis, polUcaribus, demvim deciduis, interstincta. Spathellce 

 oblongse, cuspidatae, inargine lacerato-fimbriatEe, BractecB linean- 

 ligulatsej hyaUna^, integraj vel lacer ge, Jlores trigonos stipitulatos 2-3- 

 plo superantes. Perianthium biseriale, 6-glume. Gluma extemce 

 3, inter se aquales, ovato-oblongse, cuspidata?, concavse, glabrae, uni- 

 nerviai. Glum^ internee 3, extemh duplo longiores, oblongo-acutae, 

 rigidse, fuscae. Antherm inclusse, apiculatse, intus secundum longitu- 

 dinem dehiscentes. 



mtemae 



DovEA, Kunth.EnumAn. p. 457 (1841) ; Steud. Synops, ii. p. 248. 



Char, emend. — Plores dioici, fasciculato- vel spicato-congesti, 

 singidi magis minusve triangulares, prsesertim feminei, sessiles, 

 bractea breviore stipati. Perianthium biseriale, sexglume. 

 Gluma) exteriores breviores, ex bis laterales naviculari-carinatse. 



oblongse, cymbiformes. Masc. : — Stamina 3, 

 distincta. Antherae unilocularea, dorso supra basim affixae, 

 antice secundum longitudinem dehiscentes. Pistilli rudi- 

 mentum trilobum vel nullum, Pemiua; — Staminodia liguli- 

 formia vel nulla. Ovarium 3-lobum, 3-loculare. Stigmata 3, 

 Bcssilia, intus villosa, revoluta. Capsula trilobata, trilocularis, 

 vestigio stigmatum coronata, coriacea, dura, angulis salien- 

 tibus longitudinaliter dehiscens. Semen in quovis loculo soli- 

 tarium, pendulum, oblongum, testa membranacea longitudinaliter 

 undulato plicata. — Ehizoma repens, squamatum. Culmi sim- 

 plices vel virgato-ramosissimi, remote vaginati. Vaginae deci- 

 duae, basi annulari persistente. Inflorescentia mascula Elegies 

 omnino conformis. Flores feminei in apice culmi vel ramorum 

 (3-6) subspicatim dispositi, brevissime pedunculati vel sessiles, 

 remotiusculi, singuli bractea (vagina florali Kimthii) majore 

 aperta suftulti. — Fructu capsulari ab Elegia, inflorescentia 

 mascula vaginisque deciduis a Mestione discrepat. 



1. D. MicBOCAKPA, Kunthy Enum. iii. p. 459 ^ Steud. Synops. ii.p. -'^^'^• 

 Hub. Pr. B. Sp. Species nnhi ignuta. Planta immatura, fuininea, a eh 



