Andropogonea.] OC. GRAMINEJF. 1131 
anantha. Glum:e spiculee perfectze 4, mutics, extima vacua, dura, globosa, cavum 
rhacheos obtegens, secunda pariter vacua, minor, concava, tenuis at rigidula, tertia vacua 
et terminalis florens parvze, tenues, hyalinz ; palea minuta v. 0. Stamina 3. Styli dis- 
tincti, stigmatibus plumosis. Caryopsis gluma extima globosa inclusa, libera. —5Gramen 
annuum, ramosum, s:epius patentim pilosum, foliis planis. Pedunculi singuli vagina folii 
floralis stipati, spicam  unieam ferentes, inflorescentia tota sspe paniculam irregularem 
foliatam formante, spiculis parvis graniformibus foveolatis insignem. 
Species 1, per regiones ealidiores utriusque orbis late dispersa. Beauv. Agrostogr. 119, f. 21, 
f. 10; Kunth, Enum. Pl. i.469. Roxb. Corom. Pl. t. 18. Beauv. Fl. Ow. et Ben. t. 14. Doll in 
Mart. FI. Bras. ii. ii. t. 46. 
88. Hemarthria, Ft. Br. Prod. 207.—8Spicule secus spice rhachin subarticulatam ad 
nodos excavatam gemino, altera sessilis, flore unico hermaphrodito ; altera pedicellat; 
anantha v. flore unico sterili, pedicello sepe rhachi adnato. Glum:e spicule perfecte 4, 
extima vacua, acuta v. acuminata, arcte appressa, cavum rhacheos obtegens, secunda 
pariter vaeua, tenuior, concava v. carinata, tertia vacua et terminalis florens cum palea 
parva tenuiter hyalinz. Stamina 3. Styli distincti, stigmatibus plumosis. Caryopsis 
glumis exterioribus inclusa, libera.—Gramina basi sepius decumbentia ramosaque, foliis 
planis. Pedunculi terminales v. in axillis superioribus subfasciculati vaginaque stipati, 
spica simplici ssepius plus minus compressa. Spicule pedicellatze e glumis 2-3 vacuis v. 
rarius florem sterilem foventibus, pedicello swpe usque ad nodum superiorem rhacheos 
adnato, quo spicula sessilis apparet perfecte nodi superioris subopposita. 
Species vix 3, bene distinetz, per regiones calidiores utriusque orbis late disperse, i in maritimis 
orbis veteris frequentiores, u ubi usque ad regionem Mediterraneam extense; in America rariores. 
Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 888. Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 510. Desf. FI. Atl. t. 36 (RHotthocllia), 
Beauv. Agrostogr. t. 21, f. 8 (Rottboellia). Roxb. Coro. Pl. t, 156 (Rottboellia), Brongn.in Duperr. 
Voy. Coq. Bot. t. 15. 
- LonicuraniA, Jeawv. Agrostogr. 108, 7. 21, . 6, ob synonymon ab auctore citatum ad Hemarthricin 
refertur, sed nee character nec icon Beauvoisii conveniunt, et genus omnino dubium remanet. 
89. wossia, Wall. et Griff- in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. v. 072, t. zx —PSpicule secus 
rhachin flexuosam subartieulatam ad nodos t spice cyli v. subuni- 
lateralis gemin:e, altera sessilis flore terminali hermaphrodito inferiore masculo, altera 
pedicellata floribus 1-2 masculis. Glum:e 4, 2 exteriores vacuze, rigidz, extima major, 
swpe muricata, acute acuminata v. in spieula pedicellata in aristam longam producta, 
tertia et quarta florentes brevi cum paleis t ime hyalin:z, mutics. Stamina 3. 
Styli distincti, stigmatibus plumosis. Caryopsis glumis exterioribus inclusa, libera.— 
Gramina spe aquatica, procera, foliis planis. Spies (panieulze rami simplices) secus 
pedunculi apicem scepius plures, dissitze, rarius ad unam elongatam reducti. 
Species nobis notze 5, Africanz, tropieze v. australes, quarum una etiam in India orientali late 
dispersa. Munro i» Harv. Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. 2, 441. Grant. in. Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 
t, 116. 
Genus Tschemo affine, gud spicis sepissime pluribus et glumis fl ibus ut in RHotíboellieis 
c speciosum, Nees, ex India orientali, forte Vossiis Africanis 
addendum est. 
Enxwocuroa, Büse in Pl. Jungh. 357, species Sumatrana nee a. Miquelio' nee a nobis visa, ex 
charactere dato ad Vossiaz referenda videtur, glumarum acumine (si verba auctoris recte intellegi- 
mus) rigidiore spinescente. 
90. Thelepogon, Roth, Nov. Pl. Spec. 62.  (Jardinia, Steud. in Flora, 1850, 229 ; Syn. 
Pl. Glum. i. 360.)—Spicule perfecte secus rhachin flexuosam sübariiculatam ad nodos 
spie:e unilateralis sessiles, eum pedicello anguste glumiformi spiculm alterius 
abortivc, flore hermaphrodito unico terminali cum inferiore masculo. Glumse 4, 2 exte- 
riores vacum, rigidie, cuts, istatz, dorso tuberculato-rugosw, extima rhachi arcte 
