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Panicula spuria foliata multiramosa, ultra 50 cent, longa, contracta ; 

 pedunculi communes graciles, ad 12 cent, longi, glaberrimi, breviter 

 vel brevissime e spatha propria angusta laminam brevem setaceam 

 gerente exserti. Racemi fragillimi, 3 cent, longi, flavescentes, superior 

 pedunculo ad 4 mill. longo suffultus ; articuli pedicellique complanati 

 praeter cilia unum vel utrumque marginem (tune vero in latere inte- 

 riore copiosiora) ornantia glaberrimi, nitidi, articuli sublineares apice 

 vixlatiores, 3 mill. longi, pedicelli cuneati, basi acuti, apice utrinque 

 in dentem angustum producti sinubus interjectis rotundalis. Spiculœ 

 sessiles anguste lanceolatae, acuminatae, acutae, 5-6.5 mill. longse callo 

 brevi obtuso impresso glabro vel brevissime barbulato incluso ; gluma 

 inferior chartacea, dorso medio leviter sulcata, in sulco infra médium 

 linea pilorum alborum brevissimorum notata, marginibus anguste 

 implicata, carinis rigide ciliolatis, superne scaberula, nervis 6, quorum 

 duo interiores sulcum comitantes superne distincti ; gluma superior 

 subchartacea, cymbiformis, acutissima, inferiorem aequans, carina 

 superne asperula, sub-3-nervis, nervis laleralibus inferne tenuissimis 

 caeterum obscuris sub marginem ciliatam angustissimam sitis ; valvae 

 hyalinae, inferior lanceolato-oblonga, 5 mill, longa, acuta, 2-nervis, 

 ciliata, in dorso superne minute asperula, superior oblonga, quam 

 superior brevior, breviter 2-loba, eciliata, infra médium 3-nervis, arista 

 11-12 mill. longa, ad médium geniculata, gracilis ; palea late oblonga, 

 truncata vel bidentata, 2 mill. longa. Spiculse pedicellatae, lanceolato- 

 oblongae, acutae, 4-5 mill. longae ; gluma inferior mucronulata, tenuiter 

 7-11-nervis, superne et in carinis asperula, inferior dorso convexa, 

 acutissima, 3-nervis, ciliata ; valvae hyalinae oblongae, ciliatae, inferior 

 latior, subacuta, 3-nervis, ad 5 mill. longa, superior paulo brevior, 

 acutissima vel mucronulata, i-nervis, cum palea angusta 3-3.5 mill. 

 longa et flore o^ interdum hebetato. Stamina 3 ; antherae 4 mill. 

 loneae. 



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Le Gérant: L. Morot. 



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