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aristam brevem producta, tertia secunde similis nisi mutica, seepiusque paleam v. florem d 
fovens ; terminalis florens brevior, mutica, tenuis, cum palea inclusa hyalina. Stamina 3. 
Styli a basi distincti, stigmatibus plumosis. Caryopsis oblonga, glumis rigidulis laxe 
inclusa, libera. —Gramina rigidula, foliis ad basin caulis confertis secus caulem paucis planis 
siepe pilosis. Panicula terminalis, longe ped lata, patens, ramis filiformibus parce 
ramulosis, .Spicule pilorum fasciculo cinctze. 
Species 2, Brasilienses (altera adhue inedita). Kunth, Enum.i. 519; Rev. Gram.t. 200. 
56. Eeynaudia, Kunth, Rev. Gram. 195, t. 9.—Spicule 1-florz, secus ramos inarticu- 
latos paniculze tenuis thyrsoide: solitariz, cum pedicello articulate, flore hermaphrodito. 
Glum:e 4, 3 exteriores vacus, subsimiles, carinatze, apice 2-fidze, intra lobos arista recta 
instructze, infima paullo minor longiusque aristata, 3-O-nervis, secunda paullo major, 
D-7-nervis, tertia sub-D-nervis lobis aristaque brevioribus ; terminalis florens angusta, 
hyalina, acuta, preter carinam enervis, vacuis paullo brevior; palea 0. Lodicule 4, 
quarum 2 exteriores (potius paleam pandse ?) inatz, 2 interi lat» trun- 
cate. Stamina 2. Styli distincti, stigmatibus plumosis. Caryopsis . . .— ramen 
cowspitosum, foliis ad basin caulis confertis filiformi-teretibus. Panicula longe pedun- 
culata, brevis, angusta, gracilis, laxiuseula, ramis filiformibus brevibus paucispiculatis. 
Species 1, ins. San Domingo et Cubze incola. Kunth, Enum. Pl.i. 39. 
D7. Rnynehelytrum, Hochst. im Flora, 1844, 249, non Nees.—Spicule secus ramos 
inarticulatos panicule solitaris, cum pedicello articulatw, flore terminali unico herma- 
phrodito, addito interdum masculo inferiore. Glum:e 4, extima a cseteris distans, brevis, 
angusta, mutica, fasciculo pilorum cincta, seeunda pariter vacua, concava, carinata, 
3-5-nervis, dorso pilis longis ciliata, 2-dentata et inter dentes longe tenuiterque aristata, 
tertia secunde similis :equalisque nisi ssepius paleam tenuem et interdum florem d fovens ; 
terminalis florens multo brevior, cum palea subhyalina glabra, mutica. Stamina 3. Styli 
a basi distincti, stigmatibus plumosis elongatis. Caryopsis (in speciminibus immatura 
glumis induratis inclusa, libera.—Gramina (annua ?) elatiuscula, foliis siccitate convolutis 
complicatisye. Panicula terminalis, laxe thyrsoidea, ramulis pedicellisque tenuissimis 
sparsis v. subfasciculatis. 
Species 2 v. 3, Afriew tropies ineole.  Seud. Syn. Pl. Glum.i. 119, quoad species Abyssinicas. 
Speeimina Abyssiniea Schimperi n. 2310, a typieis Kotsehyanis n. 370, spieulis minoribus minus 
pilosis aristis brevioribus ete. paullulum differre videntur. 7. ruficomum, Hoehst. in Steud. l.c. 
nobisignotum est. Genus Zhynchelythrum ad plantam Dreg: a Neesio in Fl. Afr. Austr. Gram. 
64, constitutum valde diversum est, et evidenter Panicum (Tricholenam) roseum refert. 
58. Thysanoleena, Nees in Pl. Meyen. 180. (Myriachwta, Zoll. et Mor. Verz. Pl. 
Zoll. 101, éx descr.)—8piculie 1-florze, minim:e, secus ramulos filiformes panieulre subfasci- 
culate, cum pedicello articulatze, flore hermaphrodito. Glum:e 4, 2 exteriores multo 
breviores inzquales latee mutics, tertia pariter vacua, longior, membranacea, acute 
acuminata; terminalis florens brevior tenuiorque latior, obtusa, longe ciliata; palea 
angusta, hyalina. Stamina 2-3. Styli a basi distincti, stigmatibus plumosis. Caryopsis 
minima, glumis inclusa quarum tertia rigescit.—Gramen elatum, foliis longis latisque. 
Panicula terminalis, maxima, ramis issimis longe losis primum strictis 
demum sepe effusis, undique fasciculis subsecundis spicularum dense obtectis ; spiculee 
ipse breviter pedicellatze. 
Species 1, per Asiam tropicam late dispersa, in Mauritio inquilina. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 119. 
Trin. Spec. Gram. t. 87 (Panicum). 
Setz longe, tenuissimee, glümze florenti in sicco appressee, a glumis exterioribus fere obteetze, oculo 
' nudo non apparent, et a Steudelio preetermisse, qui speciem alteram falsam setis destitutam distinxit. 
59. Cleistachne, Benth. in. Hook. Ic. Pl. xiv. 60, t. 1379.— Spiculee 1-florze, oblongze, 
secus paniculz ramos capillares inarticulatos solitarize, dissitze, cum pedicello ciliato articu- 
late, flore hermaphrodito. Glumse 4, 2 inferiores vaeus, snbrequales, late, rigide, 
