384 H. Pfeiffer. 



agnoscere non potuit, pro genere nomine Fintelmanniae optime de- 

 scripsit, quare genus spurium Nee si i, etsi tardius charactere emendato 

 ad speciein Brasiliensem limitatum, nobis delendum videtur. Perigynium 

 utriculiforme cum stylo cohaerens a Neesio in charactere emendato 

 descriptum est nucis pericarpium. 



Trilepis Endl., Gen. (1837) 111 et Ench. (1841) 63, sect. XHkfi* exclus.; 

 Reichb., Norn. (1841) 40, sect, eae; — Nees 1 ) in Linn. IX (1834), 305, 

 Edinb. X. Philos. Journ. XVII (1834) 267 et in Mart., El. Brasil. II, I 

 (1842), 197, — non Kth., Steud. 2 ) — Fintelmannia*) Kth., Enum. II 

 (1837), 362; Meisn., Gen. (1843) 413 (et 316); Spach, Veg. phan. XIII 

 (1846), 146. — Spiculae in spica androgyna vel unisexuali spiculiforrni 

 sessiles 4 ). Squamae undique imbricatae, singulae spicam includentes 

 minorem, reductam ad florem unicum, squamulis duabus involutum. 

 Stamina 2 (rarius 3 ?). Stylus cum ovario continuus, basi haud incrassatus, 

 ramis stigmatosis 3 filiformibus. Nux minus cognita. — Ramuli inferne 

 dense foliosi, superne remotifolii et fiuctificantes. Vaginae purpurascentes 

 glabraeque, ore ad latus folio oppositum in ligulam obtusam productae, 

 tardius interne fissae vel rectius in reticulum fibrosum dissolubiles. 



Hinc Becquereliae, inde Sclerieae affinis, ab utraque sat distincta. 



Enumeratio specierum. 



1. Tr. Lhoizkiana Nees in Edinb. N. Philos. Journ. XVII, 267 et 

 in Wight, Contrib. Bot. of Ind. p. 119, Endl., Atakt. t. XLIX, non 

 Kth., vix Steud. — Fintelmannia restioides Kth., Enum. II, 363; Lindm. 

 in Bih. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. XXVI, Afd. Ill, no. 9, 1900, p. 35. — 

 F. Lhoizkiana Pfeiff. in schedae herb. mus. plur. — Spiculae masculae 

 squamam % superantes, foemineae earn subaequantes. In planta mea 

 caryopsis lenticulaii-compressa vel subcylindrica apice conica sed erostris, 

 a lateribus angustioribus margine tereti circumdata, colore pallide ochraceo, 

 margine rufescente, basi semilunata saturate fusca, minus evoluta, stig- 

 mata interdum exserta, saepius heberata, inelusa, rarissime in toto rninu- 

 tissime tabescens. — Rio de Janeiro (Widgren); Bahia, in campis 

 apricis grraminosis vicinitatis urbis (R^gnell — fide Lindm.). In rupibus 

 prov. Rio de Janeiro (Riedel 933!), in rupibus humidis montis Cor- 

 covado prope Sebastionopolin prov. Rio de Janeiro (Lhotzky! Sellow! 

 Beyrich! Gardner! Pohl! Martiusl); in saturis humidis S. da Lapa 

 (Riedel 1138!). 



f. robusta Pfeiff., nov. comb. — Fintelmannia robusta C. B. Clarke 

 in Kew Bull. Add. ser. VIII, 67. — Variat statura, colore culmi, magni- 

 tudine snicularum panicularumque in speciminibus Uleanis (no. 887! 



*■) Charactere his posterioribus locis expresso reformando. 



2 ) Fide O. Ktze., Rev. Gen. II (1891), p. 758. 



3 ) Genus in honorem Ferdinandi Fintelmann, viri de re hortulana 

 meritissimi, dictum. 



4 ) Inferiores coninnxihet ramula masculae, superiores foemineae. 



