Chloridec.] €C. GRAMINE, 1165 
lj: ol 1 
florens lata, inata, exaristata, margine longe ciliata, 1-3 supe- 
riores minores, tenuiores, hyalinz, truncatz, florem d' includentes v. summa vacua ;. palea 
angusta, hyalina, 2-carinata, gluma inclusa. | Stamina 3. Styli distincti, Bel e 
plumosis, Caryopsis gluma paleaque tenuibus inclusa, libera.—Gramina perennia, foliis 
siecitate convolutis crassiusculis. Spica in ped elongato unica, densa; 
sepius colorata, interdum faleata, spiculis confertis subpectinatis secundis. 
Species 2, Africze australis incole. Nes, FU. Afr. Austr. Gram. 238. Swartz in Mii ANatüf. 
Fr. Berl. Mag. iii. 4. 1 (Chloris). Trin. Spec. Grain. t. 310 (Ohloris). 
TS ?nAli 
172. Ctenium, Pan; i» Denkschr. Acad. Sc. Munch. 1819, 288, t. 13. (Campulosus, 
Desv. in. Nouv. Bull. Soc. Philom. ii. 189. Campuloa, Ejusd. Jowrn. Bot. i. (1813) 69. 
Moniocera, Ell. Bot. S. rM and, Georg. i. 176.)—Spicule 1-2-florwe, tenues, secus rhachin 
ieralium sessiles, 2-seriatim confertz, rhachilla supra glumas 
inferiores articulata, flore unico v. inferiore HONUNPHEONHUN superiore dum adsit masculo. 
Glums 2 inferiores vacus, sub articulati extima parva, tenuis, fere 
hyalina, earinata, mutica, secunda ceteris májórj membranacea v. rigidula, 2-3-nervis, 
acuta v. breviter 2:fida, medio dorso arista ssepius horizontaliter divaricata tenuiter aculei- 
formi v. ad tuberculum reducta instructa, glum:e tertia quartaque vaeus v. paleam 
angustam foventes, quam secunda breviores tenuioresque szepe longe ciliata, sub apice arista 
dorsali erecta instructa; quinta florens vacuis brevior tenuiorque, arista sub apice tenui 
interdum longe capillari ; superiores 1-2 angusts, vacus v. paleam angustam foventes. 
Stamina 3. Styli distincti, stigmatibus plumosis. Caryopsis oblonga, exsulea, gluma 
laxe inclusa, libera.—Gramina spe elatiuscula, foliis angustis planis v. convolutis. Spicze 
in pedunculo terminali solitaris v. rarius 2-3, erectze, sessiles, swepe incurvo ; spiculwe 
secund:e, densissime approximate, eleganter pectinaiz, medio quasi armate, 
Species nobis note 7, quarum 4 Americans, boreales v. australes, 9 Africano v. Mascarenses, 
Jeauv. Agrostogr. 63, t. 19, f. 1 (Campulosus).  Kunth, Enum. Pl. i.274. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 
202. Trin. Spec. Gram. 1. 801 ad 304 stc ania Kunth, Rev. Grain. t. 59, 136, 197. .Munby, 
Al FE Mc , Ell, includens, qua ratione-a botanieis recentioribus 
xéjieitur, etsi gius quam Cteniui editum. 
:.178. "interopogon, JNees in Lindl. Introd. Nat. Syst. ed. 9, 448. —Spiculz 1-2-flore, 
sublanceolat, secus rhachin continuam spicm long: unilateralis sessiles, 2-seriatim con- 
ferte, appresse, rhachilla supra glumas inferiores articulata, flore Unico v. inferiore 
hermaphrodito, superiore dum adsit masculo v. sterili. Glum:e 2, vacu:e, sub articulatione 
persistentes, hyalinz, carinatz, acute, plus minus inzquales ; tertia florens longior, rigi- 
dula, dorso rotundata, 3-nervis, arista sub apice integro v. breviter 2-fido subdorsali tenui 
recta ; superiores 1-2 minores, florem d v. paleam solam foventes; palea gluma paullo 
im 2-nervis, 2-cuspidata. | Stamina 3. . Styli distincti, Shemns EDS plumosis, 
Caryopsis anguste oblonga, a dorso compressa v. antice late suleata, gluma.paleaque riges- 
centibus inclusa, libera. —Gramina (perennia ?) epo, elatiuseula, foliis longis angustis 
planis v. ] Spica lis, unica, elongata, scpe.curvula, 
PUR secundis imbricatis. 
Species 3 v. 4, Indic orientalis Afriete tropiem et ins. Mascarensium incole, Ben. in Jourm, 
Linn. Soc. xix. 101. 
Hue pertinent, preter £. melicoidem, Nees, Cteniuim. Seychellarum, Baker, Fl. Maurit. 452, species 
vix à typlea Indica distincta, E. (maerostachya, Munro ( CMoris inacrostachya, Hochst.), ex Abyssinia, 
et E, leptophylla, Benth., e Madagascaria, Zoivin, n. 3019. 
174. Chioris, Swartz, Prod. 25; Fl. Ind. Occid. 189, t. 3.—Spicule 1-flome, secus 
rhachin sessiles, 2-seriatim conferto», Phacbalis supra 
apt inferiores articulata, ultra flores produeta, apice. glumifera, flore .h 
