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DESCRIPTIO. 
_ Cuzmus semiorgyalis, fistulosus, teres, lævis, no- 
dosus erectus apice reclinatus , crassitie pennæ co- 
Jumbinæ. ; 
Foria alterna , ensata, culmo longiora, angusta 
apice setacea, reclinata, basi concava, vaginantia, 
margine ordinibus spinularum aspera. 
Vaginæ integræ culmum amplexantes, subcyathi- 
formes, pollicares, bipollicares. 
Panicuræ circiter 3-7 ad singulum geniculum 
culmi. Pedunculi erecti intra vaginam foliorum 
culmo appressi, compresso-subtriquetri, ad carinas 
asperi ; horum exterior reliquis longior, ferè palma- 
ris ; laterales sensim minores, interiores vix polli- 
cares. Fe ( 
 Paniculæ ad genicula superiora culmi sensim mi- 
nores et pedunculi pauciores. Pedicelli pedunculo 
simillimi, ad ejus genicula, quatuor tres vel duo, 
eodem modo ac peduneul i in geniculis culmi, exte- 
riore majore , iterùm sæpè diviso. Involucrum ad 
quodlibet geniculum pedunculorum et pedicellorum, 
monophyllum , spathaceo-glumaceum , ovato-lanceo- 
latum, acuminatum, doïrso asperum , basi vaginà 
cylindricä integrâ pedicellos vaginans, proût foliis si- 
millimum , ad genicula inferiora pollicare, ad supe- 
riora sensim minus, glumas vix longitudine superans. 
Calyx : gluma bivalvis uniflora : valvulæ æquales, 
Ovato-lanceolatæ, acutæ, acuminatæ, purpureæ, con- 
Cavæ. 
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