1174 CC. GRAMINEJE. [Festucec. 
Tarsus XI. FESTUCE:. 
196. Pommereulla, Linn. f. Gen. Nov. Gram. 33, in Ann. Acad. x.—Spiculee 9-5- 
florze, turbinatze, in spica densa subsessiles, rhachilla supra glumas 2 inferiores articulata 
breviterque producta, inter czeteras brevissima, continua, floribus hermaphroditis. Glumz»e 
2 inferiores vacuse, sub articulati persi , fere hyalinze, carinatze, spicula paullo 
breviores, extima l-nervis, secunda longior 3-nervis, 2 quentes supra articulati 
vacuse, fl. tit pp easque invol tes, 4-fidze, lobis hyalinis lanceolatis acutis 
v. seta brevi acuminatis ; 2-5 florentes involucrantibus similes nisi paullo minores, summa 
minor vacua v. floris rudimentum fovens ; palea intra glumas florentes latiuscula, juxta 
margines 2-carinata. Stamina 2 v. 3, antheris parvis. Styli distincti, brevissimi, tenuiter 
penicillato-stigmatosi. Caryopsis intra glumas invol ies parum induratas subcon- 
natasque inclusa, ovata v. obovato-oblonga, exsulea, libera, pericarpio tenuissimo sepe 
laxo.—Gramen pumilum (. ) cwespit v. stolonif caulibus brevissimis 
vaginis foliorum imbricatis obtectis, laminis brevibus planis. Spica brevis, intra vaginam 
folii supremi semi-inclusa. 
Species 1, Indi: orientalis incola. Beau. "Agrostogr. 91,1. 18, f. 6. Kunth in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 
1, xxiii. 4. 7; Enum. Pl. i. 320, exel. P. monoica, —.Rozb. Corom. Pl. t. 131. 
197. Pappophorum, Scweb. Gen. Pl. 787.—Spicule 1-2- rarius 3-flore, angustc, 
rhachilla supra glumas inferiores articulata, floribus 1-2 hermaphroditis, summo sepe 
masculo. Glum:e 2 inferi vacuse, persistentes, membranacere, acutze, carinatz, late- 
ribus enervibus v. utrinque 1-3-nervibus ; florentes basi latze subcoriacece, obscure oo-nerves, 
in lobos plus minus aristiformes 9-93 sspe inczequales divisc ; superi 2-3 angustiores, 
vacus v. una alterave paleam v. floris rudimentum foventes ; palea gluma florente inclusa, 
latiuscula, juxta margines 2-carinata, interdum glum: partem integram excedens. 
Stamina 3. Styli breves, distincti, stigmatibus plumosis. Caryopsis ovoidea v. oblonga, 
à dorso leviter compressa, glabra, gluma paleaque inclusa, libera.—Gramina perennia (v. 
rarius annua?) czespitosa, humilia v. elata, foliis angustis siccitate sepius convolutis. 
Panicula dense spiciformis, simplex v. rarius ramosa v. subint pta, nunc longissi 
nunc fere in capitulum contracta, aristis numerosis sepe subsericeo-plumosa. 
Species vix 20, per regiones calidiores utriusque orbis late disperse. . Kunth, Enum. Pl. i. 254. 
Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum.i.199. Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 600. Fourn. Gram. Mex. 133. 
Genus in sectiones 2 Kee facile pro generibus propriis habendas dividitur :— 
1l. Polyrhaphis, Trin. "Glumse inferiores Vacus, preter carinam enerves; glum;e florentis aristze 
13-23, inzequales, nonnullze basi membranaceze v. plans, alie a basi tenues, brevissime barbellatze v. 
serrulate nee plumosm. Species pauee, American: tropiez, inter se parum distincte, — Zeauv. 
"Agrostogr. 82, t. 17, f. 1. VaM, Symb. t. 51. Kunth, Rev. Gram. (. 131, 132. Dell in. Mart. Fl. 
ras. ii. iii. f. 17. PorygmaPHIS (pro genere admissa), Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 116. 
2. Enneapogon. Gluma vacua infima 3-5-nervis, secunda 5-7-nervis; glumz florentis aristz 9, 
parum inzxquales, alternz interdum basi latiores v. exteriores paullo breviores, omnes (nisi in 
P. scabro, Kunth) plus minus plumosz, Species ad 16, plerzque g ges, 1l v.2 
boreales. — Kunth, Rev. Gram. t. 61. — Jaub. et Spach, Ill, Pl. Or. 1. 323, 324. Wawra in. Mazim. 
Reise, Bot. t. 94. ExNzAroaox, Desv. Journ, Bot. i. (1813) 70. Beauv. Agrostogr. 81, t. 16, f. 11. 
Sect Eunmarmrs, Trin, pro genere proprio recepta in Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 115, excluso tamen 
synonymo Corcthrum, Vahl, est Boissiera, Hochst. —Corethrum potius ad Jouielouam multisetam 
referrimus. 
5. 
198. €ottea, Kuuth, Rev. Gram. i. 84, 281, t. 52 ; Enum. PI. i. 256.— Spiculte oc- (2-6-) 
florze, laxiuscule paniculatz, rhachilla sub floribus fertilibus articulata ; floribus herma- 
phroditis v. summo masculo. Glum:e 2 inferiores vacus, sub articulatione persistentes, 
membranaceze, acutz v. 3-dentatz, 7-9-nerves ; florentes 9-11-nerves, valde oblique et 
irregulariter 9-11-lobm, lobis erectis plerisque aristiformibus, nonnullis (3-5) hyalino 
