Tab. 2o5. HIEROCHLOA antarctica. 



Panicula effusa, subnutante; glumis basi trinerviis, carina laevibus; floribus 

 masculis pubescentibus, dorso margineque ciliatisj hermaphrodito submucronu- 

 lato^ foliis planis. 



Hierochloa antarctica Browjij Prod. Flor. Nov.-HolL i. pag. 2og. Kunih 



Enum. 1. p. 3y. 



isarrenum antarcticum Labill. Nov.^Holl. 2.p. 83. t.232. 

 Holcus redolens Forst. Prod. no. 663. 

 Melica magellanica Desrouss. in Lam.Encycl. 4. p. y2? 

 Torresia redolens Rcem. et Schult. Syst. 2. p. S16. 

 Torresia magellanica Beaup. ^grost.p. 63. Rcem et Schult. l. c. 



Crescit in Nova-Hollandia, Nova-Zeelandia et insulis Maclovianis 



Gramen Anthoxanthum odoratum redolens, Radix perennis; fibris filiformibus, villosis, tar 

 dius glabratis, Culmi caespltosi, erecti, tripedales, simplices, teretes, striati, subtrinodes no- 

 dicpie glabri. Folia linearia, apice angustato-acuta , rigida, sicca involuta, externe striata 

 interne sulcata, glabra, pedalia et longiora. Vaginae teretes, usque ad basim fissae, striatae 



glabri3e , rigidae ; inferiores internodiis longiores 3 superiores 6 — 8 — poUicares , internodiis 



breviores. Ligula ovata, obtusa, albida, membranacea, glabra, tardius lacera. Panlcula e 

 summa vaglna longe exserta, ramosa, ovato-oblonga, secunda, erecta; ramis gemlnis (altero a 

 basl, altero duplo longlore, a medio spiculifero ) ramulisque filiformibus, laxls, teretibus, 

 glabrls, Spiculae pedicellatae, obovatae, triflorse, vix quatuor lineas longaej pedicellis hlspidis, 

 cura spicula haud artlculalls. Flores duo inferiores masculi ?, trlandri?, subaequales, basl, praeser- 

 tim ad dorsum, pilis fiiscescenlibus strlclls setuliformibus barbali, sub apice arlstatl; alter 

 ( inferior ) subsessilis; alter ( superior ) pedicellatusj tertius summus i/3 minor, stipltatus, basi 

 callosus et imberbis, hermaphroditus , diander, muticus. Glumae duae, subaequales, flores 

 parum superantes , ovatae , angustato-acutae, membranaceae, stramineo-flavidae , subhyalinae , 

 nitidulae, glabrae, uninervlae, carinatae; superior paulo longior, basim versus ad utrumcrue latus 



abbrev 



Flores masculi : Paleae duae, longitudine aequales; infer 



elUptica, subcarinato-navicularis , acuta, sub apice bifido aristata , quin^uenervla, nervis q[uatuoj 

 lateralibus apice evanescentibus, subchartacea , apice membranacea , fiisca , externe hlspidulo- 

 scabra, ad ulrumque marglnem Induratum crasslusculum ciliis fuscescentibus rectls setuliformi- 

 bus densis obsita 3 arlsta subulata, rectluscula , bispido-scabra, contlnua , palea sua Iriplo brevior 

 Palea superior lanceolala, apice emarginato-bldenlala , binervia, hyalino-membranacea , margl 

 nibus inflexis bicarinata; carlnis pilosiusculis. Squamulae duae, laterales, obli<jue ovato-lanceo 



latae , glabr ae , hyafinae. Stamina FIos hermaphroditus : Paleae duae; inferior slmllis illiflorun 



masculorum, sed minor et mulica, nonnisl apicem versus hispidulo-scabra , absolete septem 

 nervia, haud ciliata; superior longltudlne inferloris, oblongo-lanceolata, acuUi, uninervia, ca- 



