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infimam articulata pubescente, ultra florem producta glumifera, flore hermaphrodito. Gluma 
PIEMNTMME ad basin rhachillze persistens (an bractea. glumiformis ?), angusta, acuminata, 
quentes vacuze ab infima distantes florenti app breves, set; ice ; florens 
eee longior, lati la, rigidule b plicata, multinervis, rostraio-acumipata 
v. mutica, margine ciliata ; terminalis multo angustior, plurinervis, vacua v. floris rudimen- 
tum fovens ; palea glum:ze :equilonga, lata, carinis 2 ciliatis valde prominentibus. Lodicule 
3. Stamina 3. Ovarium glabrum ; styli 2, basi connati, stigmatibus breviter plumosis. 
Caryopsis . . .—Gramen suffruticosum, scandens, ramis floridis fasciculatis foliatis, foliis 
cum vagina articulatis planis, venulis transversis obsoletis, vagina apice setis longis 
numerosis fimbriata. Capitulum globosum, intra folia summa sessile, spiculis majusculis 
i fertis, revera sessilibus, sed ob rhachillam supra glumam infimam productam 
pedicellatze apparent. 
Species 1, Brasiliensis, 4. capitata, Benth. (Merostachys capitata, Hook, Ic. Pl. t. 273, Munro in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 50). 
281. Mterostaehys, Spreng. Syst. Fe. i. 139.—Spieule 1-flore, in spica unilaterali 
sessiles, rhachilla infra florem 1 tardius articulata, supra florem longe stipitiformi 
st lineari, nuda v. minute glumitera. Glum:e inferiores 3—4 vacuse, ab extima minima ad 
Ip florenti subsi dati auct ; florens ique latiuscula, ecari- 
nata, mutica, tenuiter multinervis, costa i d supe p ; palea ord 
gluma.fere latior, PORUM so-nexvis. Lodicule 3e "tumina 3. Ovarium glabrum ; 
styli distincti, 1 igiusculi, stig. t Caryopsis . . .—Gramina 
ramis fasciculatis, foliis planis cum vagina ariiculatis, venulis transversis 
obscuris. Spice impli ad apices ramorum longs densz v. in ramulis fasciculatis 
minores. Spiculsm confertze, stricte secunde. 
Species 8 v. 9, Brasiliz, Paraguay et Peruviw incole. Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 46 (excl. 
M. jeher Kunth, Tv. Grain, t. 79. Fiscal in Mem. Acad. Sc. Petersb, ser. 6, v. 126, 2, 10 (eujus 
982. Chusquea, Kunth, Syn. Pl. ZEquin. i. 254. (Rettbergia, Raddi, Agrostogr. Bras. 17. 
Dendragrostis, Nees in. .Linnea, ix. 487.)—Spicule 1-flore, varie paniculate, rhachilla 
brevissima supra glumas inferiores articulata, ultra florem non producta, flore herma- 
phrodito. Glum:e 2 i vacus persistent parve v. anguste, 2 sequentes pariter 
vacus florenti simili eique app , siepe is; florens b , lata, 
D-cc-nervis, obtusa v. acuta, mutica ; palea glum:e sequi, ila b , superne 
plus minus distincte 2-carinata. Rodicuba 3. Stamina 3. (rand glabrum, smpius 
acuminatum ; styli 2, a basi distincti, v. rarius stylus indivisus, stigmatibus tenuibus laxe 
plumosis. Garyopeis CERES ipe angusti & dorso r v. subteres, gluma paleaque 
inclusa, libera.—Gramina suffruticosa v. arbc ia, i d dentia, foliis in tribu 
smpe parvulis, planis, cum vagina articulatis, venulis dpa: ud obscuris v. rarius con- 
spicuis. Panicula terminalis, nune longe d v. 
nune thy v. py idali Nodbendc v. pue effusa, y. inramulis 
brevibus if panieulam foliatam densam secundam formantes. 
Species ad 30, omnes Americang. Munro in. Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 02,0.2, Ernst in Trin. Journ. 
Jot. 1872, 262. Kunth, Rev. Gram. 1.177, 18, 191. — Trin. Spec. Gram. 1. 339, 340... E. Desv. in 
i Bplvalafum rhachillá à in C. tenella APER ex "Dallio ultra ipe produeta quod tameji in fi spedi- 
minibus nostris non vidimus. 
283. Planotia, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 70. (Platonia, Kunth, Rev. Gram. i. 
139, 327, t. 76, non Mart.)—Spicule 1-forz, paniculatz, rhachilla I conti 
ultra florem non producta, flore hermaphrodito. Glume inferiores vacus 4, swpius 
mucronato-aeuminats v. subaristatze, ab infima parva v. longa angustaque gradatim 
 mutatw, superiore interdum florenti subsimili; florens ovata, dorso rotundata v. sub- 
