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ultra, acuminatissima, rigida, conspicue striata, margine car- 
tilagineo basin versus; dentibus pro ordine validis retrorsum, 
aculeato-armatis, apicem versus edenticulat. 'The involved 
margin is almost glabrous. 
Panicula spiciformis, ramis rachi communis arcte adpressis, 
aspectu primo Triticum, vel Lolium egregie simulantibus, ra- 
morum insertiones planiusculo-tomentose. 
Ramulis, vel divisionibus ultimis inferioribüs bi-spiculi- 
geris, reliquis unigeris. 
Spiculz subsecunde sunt et extrorse, forsan ob pressionem, 
dorso convexiuscule, intus canalicato-concave, altera alte- 
ram plus minus involvens centro lutescentes czterum 
virides. Rachille angulato-clavate, glabrze, basibus imis villo- 
siusculis exceptis, spiculam infra cartilagineo-tumidis, (an ar- 
ticulato) irregulariter, demum constrictis. 
picule basis tumidiuscule parve. Clause, superior, si 2 
valve. 
Glume 2, setacez, cartilaginez, alba, paleis opposite, su- 
periore longiori. 
Palez plus minus oblique chartacee : 9 nerved,3 margi- 
nal ones close, costa branched near the base, inner cen- 
tral vein small, on either side 3 others, so that its component 
parts have 3 veins. Exterior compressima, carinata, carina 
acutissima, obsolete denticulata, sursum dilatata in aristum 
continuum, cuspidiforme subulatum desinens, dorso obtuso 
plano. Interior compressa, excepto omnino incluso, lateribus 
apicis medium versus inflexis, excepto quo 1 denticulato sub 
mutice in mucronem parvum, 
Glandule 2, oblongae ovale pluri-venosz cum paleis, alter- 
næ acutiuscule carnose, supra attenuate, margin supero den- 
ticulat. Stam. 6 lineari oblonge basi sagittatez. 
Ovarium pediculum robustum ipsius longitudine terminus 
ovat., glabrum: styli crassiusculi, basi ima connati stigmatum 
massa plumosa à breviores ramulis, divisis. 
Rudiment styli tertii minuti palee interior. ? opposit. 
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