iioó CC. GRAMINEJE. [Choridec. 
Glumse 2 inferiores vacus, sub articulatione persistentes, i les, carinatze, anguste 
nunc tissi acuta, iz, rarius obtuse v. secunda. breviter aristata ; florens 
angusta ' v. latiuscula, 1-3-nervis, acuta obtusa emarginata v. breviter 2-fida, costa in 
aristam tenuem producta v. rarius mutica, vacusz ad apicem rhachillze plures conniventes, 
vy. unica, breves, latz truncateque v. anguste, swpius aristatze v. ad aristam reductcw, 
rarius mutiez ; palea gluma vix brevior, complicato-2-carinata. Stamina 3. Styli dis- 
tincti, Sin dbos plumosis. Caryopsis gluma involuta v. inclusa, libera, oblongo-fusi- 
formis v. fere linearis, subteres v. fere 3-quetra, rarius sulcata.—Gramina scepius perennia, 
foliis planis. Spicm ad apicem pedunculi terminalis interdum solitariz v. geminze, erectz, 
ssepius plures, digitatze verticillatte v. approximatw erecte v. demum stellato-paten- 
tissime. —Gluma florens sepe longe ciliata. 
Species ad 40, per regiones calidiores utriusque orbis late disperse.  Beauv. Agrostogr. 19, t. 16, 
J.6. Kunth, Enwm. Pl. i. 263. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 1.208. — Doll in. Mart. Fl. Bras, ii, iii. 61, 
JBenth. Fl. Austral. vii. 610, c£ in. Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. 102. 
Genus in sectiones 2 sequentes dividitur, a nonnullis pro generibus propriis habitas :— 
1. Euchloris. Glum:e exteriores vacus acute v. rarius obtusw, i florens et sup 
yacue sepius nec semper aristatm. Jacq. Fragm. t. 121; Ecl. Gram. t. 8 ad 10. Kunth, Hev. 
Gram. t, 65 ad. 58, 134, 178 ad 180. Trin. Spec. Gram. t. 305 ad. 808, 311, 312. Doll i» Mart, 
Fl. Bras. ii. iii. £. 18 e£ t. 23 (Gymnopogon). 
Species quoad glumarum formam et aristas p phi, C. Poir., ex ins. Mascarensi- 
bus et C. unispica, F. Muell, ex Australia, insiguós sunt habitu gracili spicis tenuibus solitariis v. 
rarius geminis erectis, gluma florente angusta terminalique vacua angusta aristatis. In C. acicu- 
lari, Br., et C. Rozburghiana, Edgew., ex Australia et India orientali, et in C. radiata, Sw., ex 
America et Africa, gluma florens pariter angusta, terminalis vaeua vix arista latior, sed spicze 
plures digitate v. fascieulatim approximate. In C. foliosa, Willd., sp. Americana a Deellio ad 
Gymnopogonem relata, glumze pariter anguste, sed spieze minus confertee et gluma vaeua ad stipitem 
2-aristatum (an glums 2 aristiformes ?) reducta. In C. pumilione, Br., C. pectinata, Benth., et 
C. divaricata, Br., ex Australia, gluma florens distincte 2-| loba, arista inter lobos instructa. E 
speciebus pluribus Asiaticis v. A liensibus glumze les vaeu: plures, latze, truncatee ; 
pluribus Americanis gluma terminalis vacua pariter truncata sed unica ; in C. subinutica, Kunth, 
glume omnes obtuse v. obtusiusculze mutice; in his plerisque spieze digitatze v. verticillate additis 
rarius una alterave inferiore y. superiore. 
2. Eustachys. Gluma vacua secunda, mucronata v. breviter aristata, florens et vacua terminalis 
obtuse v. truncatz, muticz v. l istatz, Spieze digitate. Species 8 v. 6, 
American.  Jacg. Ecl. Gram. t, 1l, — Trin, Spec. Gram. t. 809. — H. B. et. K, :Nov, Gen. et. Sp. 
1.49, 60. Evsracnuxs, Desv. in Nouv. Bull. Soc. Philo;n. i. 188, et in Journ. Bot. i. (1813), 69. 
Kunth, Enum. Pl.i.262; Rev. Gram. t. 54. Doll in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii, iii. £, 19. — SCHULTESIA, 
Spreng. Pl. Pugill. ii. 17. 
175. Cryptochloris, Benth. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1976.—Spiculze 2-florze (rarius 1-floree 7), 
secus rhachin conti f Spice dze sessiles, 2-seriatim conferte.  Glum:e 2 infe- 
riores vacuse, persist tissime lineares, complicate, glabre, parum inzequales, 
Spiculam sub:quantes, acutz, muticz ; florentes membranacez, late ovatz, l-nerves, 
extus longe ciliats, apice minute 2- dandis sub es dorso arista rigida instruct ; 
superiores plures vacus, obovat:e v. bglob tim minores glak omnes 
aristate ; palea gluma florente paullo minor, 2- dentata, pilosula, mutica. Stamina . es 
Stylus. . . Caryopsis gluma inclusa, obovoidea, libera.—G n annuum, nanum, 
spica simplici densa intra bracteam spathiformem semi-indluss, 
Species uniea, olim a Capt. Middleton verisimiliter in Patagonia lecta. 
H J, 
- 176. Triehloris, lowrn. Gram. Mez. 142.—Spicule 1- rarius 2-flore v. fide Four- 
nieri interdum pluriflorz, secus rhachin continuam spicarum unilateralium sessiles, 
2-seriatim confertze, rhachilla supra glumas inferiores articulata, ulira florem producta 
if floribus h ditis. Glum:e 2 inferiores vacus, parvse, mem 
subhyalince, extima sepius ; angustissima, acuta, mutica, secunda breviter Wet eed florens 
membranacea, sub-3-nervis, S-aristata, aristis longis rectis subseq! v. L 
