158 FESTUCAC EF. 
| SPECIES : 
1. Ectrosia leporina Zromn. — Nova Hollandia, cum subsequente. 
2. Ectrosia spadicea Brown. 
142. ELYTROPHORUS Bzvv. 
Echinalysium Trin. 
Spicule 5-7-flore; flores distichi , imberbes. Glums dus , membranaces , cari- 
nate, apice subulato-aristate, subequales, spicula breviores. Palee duse, mem- 
branacesm; inferior carinata, trinervia, apice subulatoaristata; superior dimidio 
brevior, bicarinata, carinis membranaceo-alatis, apice triloba. Squamule due, 
membranacec , integre, glabra. Stamen unicum. Ovarium süpitatum , glabrum. 
Styli duo, terminales. Stigmata elongata, puberula. Caryopsis elongata, teretius- 
cula , glabra, libera. 
Radix fibrosa. Culmi cespitosi, simplices. Folia plana. Panicula valde conferta, 
glomerato-spicata, cylindracea. Spicule omnes fertiles; interdum steriles ut in 
Cynosuro cristato ? 
SPECIES : 
1. Elytrophorus articulatus Beau. (Dactylis spicata 77/i/ld.— Sesleria spicata Spreng. — Echinalysium 
strictum et articulatum 7n.) — India orientalis, Senegalia. 
145. FESTUCA Lux. 
Spicule bi-multiflorz; rhachis fructifera articulata ; flores distichi. Glume dus, 
Anequales, plerumque carinatz. Palee dus, herbaces; inferior apice acuta , mu- 
cronata vel plerumque in aristam desinens, dorso obtusiuscula; superior bicari- 
nata. Squamule due, glabre, sepe bifide, acutate. Stamina 5, rarius 1, vel 2. 
Ovarium plerumque glabrum. Styli duo, terminales, parum distantes, brevissimi. 
Stigmata plumosa; pilis simplicibus, rarius bifidis, dentatis. Caryopsis lineari- 
oblonga, complanata, externe convexa, interne concava ibique linea prominente 
notata, pale superiori adhaerens, interdum libera, glabra. 
Gramina foliis setaceis vel planis; spiculis pedicellatis, paniculatis vel racemosis, 
rarius spicatis sessilibus. 
