Tab. 212, SETARIA SCABRIFOLIA. 



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

 (scabris, fide Nees); vaginis glabris (scabris, fide Nees), margine orisque ciliatis ;pani 

 cula erecta, contracta, spicaeformi, subcylindracea; spiculis conglomeratis, setis i- 

 scabris purpurascentibus suffultis; gluniis glabris, septemnerviis, inaequalibus, spicula 

 brevioribus; flore hermapbrodito transverse undulato-rugoso ; neutro bipaleaceo. 



Setaria scabrifolia Kunth. Enum. u pag. iS4. 



Panicum scabrifolium Nees ab Esenhech in MarL Flor. Bras. 2.pag. 246. 



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

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

 "^ ? Floret februario. 



Radix perennis?; fibris flexuosis, fibrillosis, yillosulis, fuscescentibns. Culmus ercctus, simplex, 

 decemnodis ( octonodis, testeNees), tereti-compressus, striatus, glaber, lajvis, straminco-fla- 

 vescens, infra paniculam scabriusculus vel tenuissime arachnokleo-lanalus, adjecta panicula 

 2 |-pedalis; intemodiis alternatim ad latus originifoliirespondenssulco instructisjnodisglabris. 

 Folia linearia, angustato-aculata, striato-mullinervia, nervis novem validioribus , medio crasso 

 subtus prominente, rigida, utrinque praesertim interne scabriuscula (scaberrima, fide Nees ), 

 5-7-pollicaria , tres lineas lata; superiora basi rolundata; inferiora inferne subangustata. Vaginae 

 us<]ue ad basim fissae, compressiusculae , striatae, glabroe ( scabrae, fide Nees), superne ad margi- 



nem villoso-ciliatae ; superiores 5-3 \ pollices longae , internodiis bre viores ; inferiores iis lon- 

 giores. Ligula: margo obsoletus, pilis densis ereclis ciliatus. Panicula erecta, ramosa, contracta, 

 spicaeformis , subcylindracea, rectiuscula, quadripollicaris ; ramis abbreviatis, scabris, conglo- 

 merato-congestis. Bhachis angulata, rectiuscula, hirsuta. Spiculae breviter pedicellatae, conglo- 

 meratae, ellipticae, acutae, glabrae, stramineo- viridulae , biflorae, 1 \ lineam longae ; flore inferiore 

 neutro, superiore hermaphrodito, utrogue bipaleaceo; pedicellis scabris, basi subtriseds; setis 

 rigidis, scabris; obsolete undulato-flexuosis, superne purpurascentibus, inae^alibus,persislentibus; 

 duabus 5-7 lineas longis ; tertia multo minore et tenuiore, rectiuscula, 1-3 lineaslonga. Glumae 

 duae, inaequales, membranaceae,subrotundo-ovatae, acutiusculac, concavae , septemnerviae , nervis 

 prominulis, viridibus, raedio apicem attingente, reli^piis apice e vanescentibus , glabrae; inferior 

 basim spiculae amplectens; superior duplo longior, medium floris hermaphrodili vix superans. 



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FIos neuter: Palea inferior ovato-elliptica, acutiuscula, quinquener via , membranacea, doiso 

 planiuscula, marginibus paleam superiorem et florem hermaphroditum amplectens, stramineo- 

 viridula, glabra; palea superior paulo brcvior, ovato-elliptica, apice rotundata, retusa, biner- 

 via, hyalino-membranacea, plana, glabra. Squaraularum, starainum etpistilli rudimenta nulla. 

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

 interne planiusculus : Paleae chartaceae, glabrce, stramineo-albidae ; inferior subrotundo-ovata , 

 «juinquenervia, apice mucronata, mucrone brevi crassiusculo truncato, transverse undulato- 



