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secus rhachin spicce brevissime pedicellatis quaquaversis. Glum:e 2 v. 3, infima minima 
stepe deest, secunda vacua, rigida, costis aculeis glochidiatis echinatis ; terminalis florens 
brevior, eum palea inclusa tenuis, hyalina. Stamina 3. Styli breves, distincti, stig- 
matibus longiusculis plumosis.  Caryopsis oblonga, glumis inclusa, libera.—Gramen 
annuum, diffuse ramosum, foliis planis flaecidis. Spica terminalis, simplex, laxiuscula, 
fasciculis spicularum lappaceis facile secedentibus. : 
Species 1, per regiones tropicas temperatasque utriusque orbis latissime diffusa. Beauv. Agrostogr. 
23,40, f. 13. Kunth, Enwm. Pl.i. 169. Rev. Gram. t. 120 (Lappago). Schreb. Beschr. Grüs, 46, 
t. 4 (Cenchrus). - Host, Gram. Austr.i.t.36 (Lappago)  Nees, Gen. Fl. Germ. Monocot. i. n. 23. 
Reichb. Ie, Fl. Germ. t. 30 (Lappago). Sibh. Fl. Grec. t. 101 (Lappago). Dell in Mart. Fl. 
Bras, ii, ii, £. 18. 
66. Latipes, Kunth, Rev. Gram. i. 201, t. 42.— Spiculee 1-florze, in pedicello basi articu- 
lato solitariz v. geminse, secus rhachin racemi quaq| ; flore hermaphrodito, rarius 
in spicula una deficiente. Glum:e 3, infima angusta, rigida, valde concava, dorso muricata, 
secunda pariter vacua, infima subzquilonga, angustior, stepe recurvo-patens, margine v. 
dorso muricata; terminalis florens multo brevior, cum palea inclusa, hyalina, levis. 
Stamina 3. Styli distincti, breves, stigmatibus plumosis. Ceryopsis oblonga, gluma 
exteriore indurata muricata arcte inclusa, libera, gluma intima paleaque emarcidis sub 
fructu ssepius evanescentibus.— Gramen annuum, tenue, ]ticaule, rigidum, sub j 
foliis angustis. Racemus' terminalis, simplex, laxus, elongatus, rhachi demum flexuosa. 
Bpicule parvi, in pedicello superne compresso dilatato sessiles. 
Species 1, Afriez tropicm et Asiw occidentalis incole a Senegambia usque ad Seinde, Genus a 
Steudelio eum 7rago junctum. 
67. Lopholepis, Dcne. in Archiv. Mus. Par. i. 147. (Holboellia, Wall. in Hook. Bot. 
Misc. ii. 144, t. 70, non ejusd. Tent. Fl. Nepal.)—Spiculee 1-floree, minim:e, pedicellis basi 
articulatis, in racemo simplici quaq , flore hermaphrodito. Glum: 3, extima 
vacua, incumbens, basi dorso in gibbum p ciliato-eristatum producta, et supra 
gibbum iterum in cristam ciliatam dilatata, secunda pariter vacua, a prima semitecta, qua 
subbrevior, recta, carina dorso ciliato-cristata ; terminalis florens hyalina, vacuis 3-4-plo 
brevior, ovata, acuta ; palea hyalina, inclusa. Stamina 2. Styli distincti, breves, stig- 
matibus plumosis. Caryopsis a basi gibboso-ineurva oblonga, glumis rigidulis inclusa, 
libera.— Gramen annuum, gracile, elegans, multicaule, foliis planis. Racemus terminalis, 
simplex, spiculis numerosissimis breviter pedicellati ores minutissimi, intra spiculas 
mox emareidi, in speciminibus siccis rari, spieulis fere omnibus jam fructiferis. 
Species 1, Peninsulee Indis Orientalis incola. 
68. Neurachne, R. Br. Prod. 196.—Spiculre secus rhachin continuam spice densse 
ovoidez v. cylindracere sessiles, articulate, quaq , flore hermaphrodito unico 
terminali, addito rarissime altero inferiore masculo. Glumre 4, 2 exteriores vacus, 
quarum secunda cseteris major, utro latere pilis intramárginalibus ciliata, tertia minor 
tenuiorque, sepius paleam parvam rarissime florem lum fovens ; terminalis minor 
paleaque sub:squilonga tenuiter hyalinz. Stamina 3. Styli distincti, stigmatibus 
plumosis. Caryopsis gluma paleaque tenuibus inclusa, libera.—Gramina perennia, basi 
crspitosa subramosa, caulibus smpius strictis rigidulis, foliis planis v. convoluto-sub- 
teretib Spies terminales, ped lat, in una specie spiculis inferioribus sterilibus 
quasi involucratz, in czteris anguste cylindracerm. 
Species 3, Australian. — Ben!A. FI. Austral, vii, 507, et in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1239 ad 1241. 
69. Perotis, Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 80. (Xystidium, Trin. Fund. Agrost. 102.)—Spicul:e 
1-florze, angustse, secus rhachin continuam spicre v. racemi laxi tenuis sessiles v. breviter 
pedicellatze, cum pedicello articulatz, flore hermaphrodito. Glum:e 3, 2 exteriores vacus, 
lineares, rigidz, in aristas longas rectas products, extima longiore; terminalis florens, 
