340 Albany Museum Recordfi. 



Cr(Ja))uif/rf)fifis (Rubg. Deyenxia) Hyftoniap, n. sp. 

 Auctore E. Hackel. ^ 



Oulmus in parte sui)eriore (sola qua? in specim. adest) teres 

 glaberrimns apice breviter nudus. Folii snmmi vagina laxiuscnla 

 scaljra, lignla oblonga obtnsa fissacirc. G mm. longa, lamina linearis 

 acuta circ. 12 cm. longa 3 mim. lata, scaberrima, nervis crassiusculis 

 percursa. Panicula lineari-oblonga, patnla, densiiiscula, suberecta, 

 18-24 cm. longa, 3-4 cm. lata, rliachis scabra, ramis semiverti- 

 cillatis 6-8 tenui-filiformibus v. subcapillaribus erectopatiilis 

 scaberrimis in \ inferiore nndis dein ramiilos secundarios pluri-v. 

 mnltispicnlatos gignentibus, spiculis secus ramos aequaliter 

 dispositis densiusculis breviter pedicellatis, pedicellis apice 

 clavatis scaberrimis. Spiculae lanceolatae 3 mm. longae pallide 

 virides ; glumae steriles subaequales (I. paulliilum major) lanceo- 

 latae (3 mm. longae, expansae 1-5 mm. latae) acutissimae 1-nerves, 

 carina acnleolato-scaberrimae ; gluma fertilis sterilibus paullo 

 brevior (2*5 mm. longa), oblonga obtusa ai)ice minntej4-denticulata 

 tenui-membranacea 3-nervis dorso glaberrima, callo pilis densis 

 ipsam glumam snbaequantibus circumcirca obsita, mutica v. raro 

 in ^ superiore aristulam rectam ipsam vix superantem edens ; 

 palea glumam subaeqnans oblonga obtusiuscula bidentula 

 bicarinata glaberrima. Antherae fere 1 mm. longae. Rhachillae pro- 

 cessus circ. ()'5 mm. longns, pilis 2 mm. longis dense barbatus. 



Natal. Shafton, Howick, Mrs. H. Hutton, n. 384. 



AfBnis C. ('Diirnmsi, Hack. (Dri/eu.rinr cri/irnevsi. Baker) 

 in ins. Madagascar crescenti, quae vei'O differt glumis sterilibus 

 lineari-lanceolatis, fertili steriles subsequante paullo infra apicem 

 bidentnlum aristam rectam circ. 2 mm. longam exserenti, 

 rhachillae processu nullo. Baker banc speciem Deyeuxiis 

 adscribit, sed in descriptione nullam rhachillae processus men- 

 tionem fecit, neque ego in speciminibus a Hildebrandt (n. 4010) et 

 a Scott-Elliott lectis hujus processus vestigium inveni. 

 (1) Compare p. 113. 



