Agrostideo.] CC. GRAMINEJF. 1155 
nunc breviter ovoidea, nunc oblongo-cylind , pilis mollissimis gl 
insignis, " 
Species 1, per regionem Mediterraneam ab insulis Canariensibus usque ad Orientem latissime 
dispersa, presertim in maritimis, et secus Oceanum usque ad ins. Sarnienses extensa.  Beauv. 
Agrostogr. 94, 1. 8, f. 19. — Kunth, Enwm. Pl.i.994, Schreb. Beschr. Grüs. t. 19,/.3. Host, Gram. 
resi Ji. 2. 46. — Nee, Gen. Fl. Germ. Monocot, i, n. 45. Reichb. Ie. Fl. Germ. t, 31. Sibth, FI, 
c, £. 90. 
TnariBus IX. AvENEJ. 
146. Ertachne, F. Hr. Prod. 183. (Achneria, Beawv. Agrostogr. 12.) —Spiculee equaliter 
2-florze, laxe v. dense paniculatze, rhachilla brevissima supra glumas inferiores articulata, 
ultra flores non producta, floribus hermaphroditis. Glum:e 2 inferiores vaecuze, sub articu- 
latione persistentes, cc-nerves, carinatee, acute, muticze, subzequales ; 2 florentes sequales, 
nervis paucioribus, dorso v. ad 'gines longe ciliatze, muticze v. in aristam tenuem rectam 
products, mox cum palea inclusa rigescentes, anguste sed facie plana sibimet applicitze ; 
palea plana, nervis 2 fere marginalibus, apice 2-dentata v. 2-aristata, Stamina 3. Styli 
breves v. elongati, distincti, stigmatibus plumosis. Caryopsis a dorso compressa, gluma 
paleaque swpe induratis inclusa, libera.— Gramina perennia v. rarius annua, ceespitosa, 
folis angustis convoluto-teretibus v. rarius planis.  Panicula terminalis, nunc densa 
thyrsoidea v. elongata angustaque, nunc laxe effusa, spiculis quam in Zsachne sepissime 
majoribus. 
Species ad 22, quarum 2 Asic tropicz incole, czeter omnes Australians et ex his una etiam in 
Asia tropica obvia. Jenth. Fl. Austral, vii. 626. Kunth, Rev. Gra. t. 63, 64. Brongn. in Duperr, 
Voy. Cog. Bot. t. 9. 
MzcaracnxE, Tw. Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 372, non. Steud., est. Eriachne triseta, Nees, species Zeylanica, 
ob pales dentes in aristas longas productos insignis, Eriachnis species Afrieante a Neesio descriptae 
Ad Achneriam, Munro, pertinent. w- 
147. Prionachne, Nees in Lindl. Introd. Nat. Syst. ed. 9, 447r. (Chondrolena, Nees, 
Fl. Afr. Austr. Gram. 193.)—Spicule squaliter 9-flore, secus rhachin continuam spices 
v. panieule spiciformis subsessiles, rhachilla continua vix evoluta ultra flores non pro- 
ducta, floribus hermaphroditis v. uno abortu sterili. Glum:e 2 inferiores vacuis, persis- 
tentes, carinato-complicatm, dorso cartaginem et pectinato-dentat inibüs ato 
[p 2 gi p ] g 
, parum inszeq ; 2 florentes singule vacuis subincluse iisque paullo 
breviores, hyalinz, carinatz, acute, mutice; pales paullo minores, hyalinz, 2-nerves, 
9-dentatm. Stamina 3. Styli breves, distincti, stigmatibus breviter plumosis. Caryopsis 
anguste oblonga, gluma inclusa, libera.—Gramen annuum, ciespitosum, erectum, basi sub- 
ramosum, folis angustis planis v. siccitate convolutis. Spica in pedunculo terminali 
simplex v. ramulis paucis brevissimis strictis aucta; spieulee secus rhachin gemin:e v. 
rarius solitariz, v. in ramulis brevissimis 3-4-nz:, omnes erect:e, rigidze. 
Species 1 v. 2, austro-Afrieane. —Sfeud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 430. Trin. Spec, Gra. t. 73 (Chilo- 
cAloa, in corrigend. LasiochMois sect. Ctenachne). 
Speeimina Dregeana longiora ioraque quam Thunbergiana in herb. Gouan, foliis multo 
spica simp tenuiore. An species 2 distincts ? 
Hue forte pertinet Krexosacuwz, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 150, gramen a nobis non visum, patria 
ignota, a Steudelio ex herb. Lenormandi descriptum. 
148. Zenkeria, Trin. in Linnca, xi. 150, t. 3. (Amphidonax, Nees ez Steud. Syn. Pl. 
Glum. i. 197, pro parte, non Nees in Lindl. Introd.)—Spicule squaliter 2-flore, panicu- 
late, rhachilla brevissima supra glumas inferiores articulata pilosa, ultra flores non 
producta, floribus hermaphroditis. Glum:e 2 inferiores vacus, persistentes, membra- 
naces, carinate, acute, mutice, parum insquales; florentes nune paullo longiores 
àeuminatre subaristatee, nune parum breviores obtuse, preeter carinam utrinque tenuissime 
Y. obscure 2-3-nerves ; palea lata, glumam subzquans, carinis 2 prominentibus ciliatis, 
Stamina 3. Styli breves, distincti, stigmatibus plumosis. Caryopsis. . .—Gramina 
