Tab. 



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CENTOTHEGA lappacea. 



1 



Centotheca lappacea Desyaux Journ. de bot. 18 i3. p. yo. 

 p. 69. 1. 14. f. y. 



Cenchrus lappaceus Linn.Sp. i488., Willd. Sp. pl 1. p. 3 16. 



9 



Beauv. Agrosl 



oa latifolia Forst. Prod. n. 44. (teste specimine.) 

 Poa malabarica Burm. Ind. t. 11. f. 2. (nec Linn.?) 



Panicum magellanicumLam. E^zzc/c/. 4. p.y42. (teste herh. Juss.) 

 Oplismenus? magellanicus Roem. et Schult. Syst. 





Crescit in India orientali inque insulis Java, Timor, Rawak et Taiti 



? 



teres, striatus, glabe 



basi siibrotund 



ri 



Radlces fibrosae, filiformes. Culmus erectus, simplex, 25-poll 

 nitidulus; nodis imberbibus. Folia lanceolata, plana, aculata, 

 multinervia, membranacea _, utrinque glabra, subtus pallidiora , margine scabra _, 5-5j-polJicaria 

 -10 lineas lata. Vaginae membranaceae, striato-nervosoe^ glabrae, ciliatae, internodia superantes 



et sessilia. 



tripollica 



long 



inferiores breviores, longitudine internodiorum vel ea haud 



gentes; infima aphylla. Ligula membranacea , truncata 



f 



subcillata. Panlcula subsim 



plex, 5-7-pollicaris, erecta; ramis fasciculato-semiverticillatis, subindivisis , filiformibus, sca- 

 briusculis; rhachi sulcato-angulata, scabriuscula. Spiculae in ramis racemosae, pedicellatae, 

 sparsae, oblongae, compressae, trifloras, virides, pedicellis hispidulis. Flores remoti, distichi; 

 duo inferiores completi, hermaphroditi; summus tabescens, minutus, longe pedicellatus. Glumae 

 oblongo-lanceolatae, acutato-mucronatae , trinerviae, carinatae, herbaceae, virides, glabrae, inter 

 se parum remotae, floribus dimidio breviores; inferior brevior, carina hispidulo-scabra . Flos 

 inferior : Paleae duaej inferior ovato-oblonga, obtusa, breviter mucronata, carlnata, septem- 

 nervia, herbacea, viridis, glabra, aplce ad carinam scabrluscula ; palea superior i brevior, lan- 

 ceolata, blnervia, blcarlnata, arcuata, acuta, membranacea, glabra, carinis superne scabrls. 



Sc[uamulae duae, laterales , subaequales 



membranaceae , glabrae, ovarlo breviores, sub 



cuneatae, aplce 



emarglnatifi. Stamlna duo, stlpitl 



Filamenta capillacea 



glab 



ra. 



Antherae oblongae, utrinque bilobae, biloculares, fiiscescentes, glabrae. Pollen Imm 



turum. Ovarlum elllptlcum, tardlus fuslforme, brevlter stipitatum, glabrum. Styli duo, terml 

 nales, glabrl. Stigmata plumosa; alblda; pllls slmplicibus?, blfidls vel ramosls?, hyallnls, denti 



culatis. Garyopsls 



bllq 



oblonga, lateribus compressa 



brevlter stipltata, secundum 



longitudinem rugosa, fiisca, glabra, mlnuta, palels Inclusa, libera. Perlcarplum membranaceum, 

 adhaerens. Integumentum proprlmn semlnls tenuissimum, fuscescens. Albumen farinaceum, 

 album. Embryo mlnutlsslmus , ad basim exterlorem sltus. Flos superior inferiori simillimus, nlsl 

 parum minor et supeme, versus utrumque marglnem paleae inferlorls, pills crebris (utrlnque 11 

 vel 1 2 ) setiformlbus albldo-hyallnis basi bulbiformi-incrassatis obsitus. Stamina et plstUlum Item 

 prorsus ut In flore Inferlore. 



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