Tab. 212. SETARIA scabrifolia. 



Culmo simplici nodisque glabris^ foliis linearibus, planis, utrinque scabriusculis 

 (scabris, fide Nees) ; vaginis glabrls (scabris fide Nees)^ margine orisque ciliatis 5 pani- 

 cula erecta^ contracta, spicaeformi^ subcjlindracea^ spiculis conglomeratis, setis 2-4 



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scabrispurpurascentibus suflFuItis^ glumis glabris, septemnerviis, inoequalibus, spicu 

 brevioribusj flore bermaphrodito transverse undulato-rugoso; neutro bipaleaceo 



Setaria scabrifolia Kunth. Enum* 1. pag. iS4. 



Panicum scabrifolium Nees ab Esenlech in Mart. Flor, Bras. 2, pag. 246. 



Crescit in sylvarum marginibus et ad semitas inter Villa Rica et Tejuco pro- 

 vinciae Minarum generalium 5 item in montibus elevatis Serra d'os Orgos. (Brasilia.) 

 '^l Floret februario. 



Radix perennis?j fibris flexuosis, fibrillosis, villosulis, fuscescentibus. Culmus erectus, simplex, 

 decemnodis ( octonodis, testeNees), tereti-compressus, striatus, glabcr, lajvis, stramlneo-ila- 

 vescens, infra paniculam scabrlusculus vel tenuissime arachnoideo-Ianalus, adjecta panicula 

 2i-pedalis; inlernodiis alternatlm ad latus originifoliirespondenssulco instructisjnodis glabris. 

 Folia linearla, angustato-acutata, striato-multinervia^ nervis novem validlorlbus, medlo crasso 

 subtus promlnente, rlglda, utrlnque praesertlm interne scabrluscula (scaberrlma, fide Nees ), 

 5-7-pollIcarIa^ tres llneas lata; superlora basi rotundata; inferlora inferne subangustata. Vaginaj 

 usque ad baslm fissae, compresslusculae, strlatae, glabrae ( scabrae, fide Nees), superne admargi- 

 nem vllloso-clllatae 5 superiores 3-3 \ polllces longae , internodiis brevlores 5 inferlores Iis lon- 

 glores. Llgula: margo obsolelus, pilis densls erectis clllatus. Panlculaerecta, ramosa, contracta, 

 splcaeformls, subcyllndracea, rectiuscula, quadripollicaris ; ramis abbreviatis, scabris, conglo- 

 merato-congestls. Rhachls angulata^, rectluscula^ hlrsuta. Spiculae brevlter pedicellatae, conglo- 

 meratae^ elllptlcaej acutae, glabrae, stramlneo-vlridulae, biflorae, 1 \ lineam longae j flore inferlore 

 neutro, superlore hermaphrodito, utroqiie bipaleaceo* pedlcellis scabris, basi subtrisetlsj setls 

 rlgldis, scabrls; obsolete undulato-flexuosls, superne purpurascenilbus, ihaequalibus^persistentlbusj 

 duabus 5-7 lineas longis 5 tertla multo mlnore et tenulore, rectiuscula, 1-2 lineaslonga. Glumae 

 duae, inaequales, membranaceae, subfotundo-ovatae, acutlusculae, concavae,septemnerviae, nervis 

 prominulis, viridibus, medlo apicem attlngente, reHquIs aplce evanescentibus , glabrae; inferior 

 baslm splculae amplectensj superior duplo longior, medium florls hermaphrodili vix superans. 

 FIos neuter: Palea inferlor ovato-elllptica, acutluscula, qulnquenervla, membranacea^ dorso 

 planluscula, marginibus paleam superiorem et florem hermaphroditum amplectens, stramlneo- 

 virldula, glabraj palea superior paulo brevlor, ovato-eUiplica, apice rotundata, retusa, biner- 

 vla, hyalino-membranacea, plana, glabra. Squamularum, stamlnum etplstilli rudimenta nulla, 

 Flos hermaphroditus neutro parumbrevior, ellipticus, acuto-submucronatus, externe convexus, 

 interne planlusculus : Paleae chartaceae, glabrae, stramlneo-albidae 3 ioferior subrotundo-ovata, 

 quinquenervla, apice mucronata, mucrone brevi crasslusculo truncato, transverse undulato- 



