1128 ;. 00. GRAMINE. [4ndropogonez. 
altera sessili altera stipitata, flore in utraque unico fertili, addito interdum altero infero 
masculo. Glumee 4 v. rarius 3, tenues, extima vacua, spicula paullo brevior, mutica, 
secunda pariter vacua, ceteris paullo longior, latiuseula, membranacea, subhyalina, dorso 
sub apice longe aristata, tertia hyalina, mutica, in spicula sessili vaeua v. florem d 
rarissime 5 sterilemque fovens, in spicula pedicellata vacua v. deficiens ; terminalis florens 
brevis, hyalina, 2-fida, inter lobos longe tenuiterque aristata, flore in utraque spicula 9 v. 
in sessili P; palea brevis, nune minima. Stamina 1v. 2. Styli distincti, stigmatibus 
plumosis. Caryopsis glumis membranaceis inclusa, libera. —Gramen tenue, szepe ramosis- 
simum. Pedunculi filiformes, basi vagina stipati ; spica unica, obliqua, tenuis sed densa, 
aristis longis tenuibus insignis. 
Species 1, Indi: orientalis, Archipelagi Malayani, Chine et Japoniw incola. Kunth, Enum. Pl. i. 
4TT.. Hev, Grain. t. 161, 162..— Thunb. Fl. Jap. t. 7 (Audropogon). : 
80. Apocopis, Nees in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. (1841) 93. (Amblyachyrum, Hochst. in Steud. 
Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 413, et in. Flora, 18506, 25.)—Spicule perfectse secus rhachin articulatam 
spicz sessiles, cum rudimento stipitiformi ciliato spiculze alterius, flore fertili unico ter- 
minali addito sepissime altero masculo infero. Glum:e 4, extima vacua latissima, membra- 
nacea, multinervis, truncata, denticulata, cseteras involvens, secunda pariter vacua, 
angustior, tenuior v. subhyalina, truncato-dentata, mutica v. arista recta instructa, tertia 
angusta, hyalina, paleam angustam srepissimeque florem d fovens ; terminalis tenuissima, 
yalina, angusta, in aristam exsertam geniculatam basi tortam nunc longam nune minimam 
producta v. rarius mutica, paleam angustam hyali f que 9 v. rarius i fovens. 
Stamina 2. Styli distincti. Caryopsis oblonga, gluma extima involuta, libera, —Gramina 
perennia, basi sepe diffuse ramosa, glabra v. molliter pilosa, foliis planis angustis non 
cordatis. Spic: ad apicem pedunculi sepe tenues, solitarize v. geminze, dense, erect, 
rhachi ad nodos annulo pilorum ciliata, et gluma extima ipsa interdum fasciculo pilorum. 
instructa. Spicule inferiores spiem interd tenuiores, istatz, florem unieum 4 
includentes, 
Species 5 v. 6, Indie orientalis, Chine et Archipelagi Malayani incole. — Benth. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xix. 67. Hue pertinent A. Hoyleana, Nees (Ischamum paleacewm, Trin. Spec. Gram. t. 333, 
"Andropogon paleaceus et A himalayensis, Steud.), arista sepius brevissima v. evanida rarius spicula. 
longiore, et A. tridentata, Benth., Andropogon. tridentatus, Roxb., species insignis arista longa, et 
spicis junioribus sepius braetea ampla spathiformi eaduca inclusis. Dentes laterales glumse extimie 
eeeteris sepius distinete longiores, í . 
81. Dimeria, R. Br. Prod. 204, (Haplachne, Presl, Rel. Hcnk. i. 234, t. 38.  Didac- 
iylon, Zoll. et. Mor. Verz. Pfl. Zoll. 99. Psilostachys, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glwm. i. 413. 
Pterygostachyum, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 413.)—Spiculee 1-florz, anguste, secus 
rhachin tenuem ti spice unilateralis solitarize, sessiles, cum rhachi articulatz, 
flore hermaphrodito. Glum:e 4, 2 exteriores vacuse, lineares, rigiduls, carinatz, muticse, 
tertia pariter vacua sed minor, tenuis, hyalina ; florens tenuiter hyalina, integra v. 2-loba, 
arista terminali v. inter lobos tenui basi torta geniculata ; palea minuta v. 0. Stamina 
(an semper?) 2. Styli distincti, stigmatibus plumosis. Caryopsis.glumis exterioribus 
inclusa, libera.— Gramina tenuia, annua, csespitosa v. rarius elatiora et forte perennia, 
glabra v. patentim pilosa. Spies tenues, ad apicem pedunculi terminalis elongati soli- 
tari geminze v. plures confertze. à : 
Species ad 10, Asiw tropieze et, orientalis, Archipelagi Malayani et Australi: tropicz incolie. 
Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i, 419. Benth. FI. Austral. vii, 592, j 
82. Arthraxon, Beauv. Agrostogr. 111, t. 11, f. 6. (Pleuroplitis, Trin. Fundam. 
"grostogr. 174. Batratherum, Nees in Edinb. N. Phil. Jowrn. xviii. 180. Luczea, Kunth, 
Rev. Gram. ii. 489, t. 159. Lasiolytrum, Steud. in Flora, 1846, 18. Alectoridia, 4. Rich. 
Fl. Abyss. ii. 447, t. 99. Psilopogon, Hochst. in A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. ii. 447).— Spiculm | 
perfectz 1-flors, secus rhachin articulatam Spice sessiles, cum rudimento stipitiformi 
brevi rarius glumifero v. deficient ; flore h phrodito. Glumie 4, extima ceteris major, 
