^8 Dr. Sv/Anrz's Bof meal Hi/Io/y 



V^g'm^ foliorum compreflse culmum ar6le cingcntes, ere 

 niembranacese ciliat^e ; ligula albo-membranacea, femitii- 

 bulofa, laciniato-ciliata, intra fauccm inferta. 



PanicuLe terminales, ereiSliufculx, laxa^, fubiamofae. Peduti' 

 f«//capillares, fuperiores fimplices, ere<5li, alterni;infenore5 

 terni fecundi, quorum duo elongati, horizontaliter patulo- 

 deflexi, pedicellis I — 2 linearibus, fub flofculis incrafTatis^, 

 pubefcentibus, unifloris. 



Flores eredi, virldes, poly garni. 



Valyx bivalvis. Valvule ovatas, concavGe, fubcarinatse, ob- 

 tufae, glabrae, virides, apice membranaceae purpurafcentes, 

 exteriore majore. 



Gluma corolUna exterior mutica, calyce parum longior. Val- 

 vula complicatae, oblongas, concave, obtufac, comprefliuf- 

 culae, margine membranaceae, dorfo (oculo armato) car- 

 tilagiheo-ferratae bafi nuda^; fubaequales. Rxterior X-smi^^ 

 bafi triquetra ; interior leviter coftata, bad pubefcens nee 

 - villofa, valde excjfa ; lateribus inter coftas tranfverfaiiter 

 rugofis. 



/«/<rmr/j valvulac complicate, carinatae ; ^.v/^r/V parum 



latior, glaberrima, 5-nervia, viridis, inieriorem minorem, 

 teneriorem, bicarinatam, albidam, ample6lens. 



Tuberculum minutum ovatum ad bafin inter vaivulas coroUi- 

 jias interiores. 



Ne^arii petah duo minutillima, obovata retufa eredla, plana 

 integerrima, genitalia includentia. 



Stanu 6. longitudine valvularum. Filamenia brevifllma. 

 Anihera lineares, bafi apiceque emarginatx, biloculares, 

 luteal, apice extrorfum hiantes, pollinifer^, 



Germcn ovatum, glabrum, bafi attenuatum. Styli duo, fta- 



minibus 



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