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basi haud angustata, 5-16 cm. (plerumque 8-12 cm.) longa, 
_ 4-7 mm. lata, parte superiore decurva, supra viridia, nitida, 
canaliculata, costa pallide viridi prominula, subtus pallide viridia, 
costa prominente nervis lateralibus duobus subconspicuis; pagina 
utraque punctis lucidis conspersa, margine hyalino, basi in latere 
utroque pilis paucis floccosis instructa. Racemi densi, 3-25 (vel 
ultra)-flori ; rhachis nitida, cum pedicellis fusco-purpureo- maculata ; 
pedicelli uni- vel interdum bi-flori, horizontales, decurvi, 5-12 cm. 
longi, teretes ; bractea brevis, foliosa ; bracteolae 1 vel saepius 2, 
parvae, foliosae, patulae; alabastra intense aurantiaca, apice 
truncata. lores aurantiaci, plerumque maculis parum elongatis 
fere nigris dense tecti, rarius sparse maculati, 5-6 cm. diametro. 
unguem 1 cm. longum contracta, 5°3 cm, longa, 1°4 cm, lata, usque 
ad 15 cm. infra apicem maculata; sulci nectariferi viridescentes, 
1°6 cm. longi, marginibus elevatis inflexis albo-papillosa-pilosis 
(praesertim in parte inferiore) apicem versus minute viridescente- 
pubescentibus ; segmenta interiora oblongo-lanceolata, 5°3 cm. longa, 
ubi latissima 1°8 cm. lata, apice abrupte rotundata vel truncata, 8-9 
mm. lata, basi angustata, 5-6 mm. lata, usque ad 1-1°5 em. infra 
apicem maculata; sulci nectariferi iis segmentorum exteriorum 
structura similes, sparsissime pubescentes, papillis carnosis hic illic 
instructi, dorso prominenter carinati, Filamenta pallide aurantiaca; 
subulata, inferne complanata, apice recurva, circiter 4 cm. longa, 
glabra ; antherae oblongae, 1 cm. longae, fusco-brunneae, pollinis 
granulis intense aurantiacis. Pzstillum ad longitudinem maturam 
solum post antherarum dehiscentiam perveniens, 4°5-5 cm. altum, 
glabrum ; ovarium 1 cm. altum, suleatum, nitido-viride ; stylus 
pallide aurantiacus, superne incrassatus, in dimidio superiore 
triqueter, extrorsum curvatus ; stigma parvum, trigonum, rotundatum, 
pallide aurantiacum. Capsula straminea, erecta, obovoidea, trialata, 
apice truncata, depressa, 2°5 cm. alta, 2 cm. diametro,—L, warleyense? 
ard. Chron., ser. 3, vol. lii., p. 15 (nomen nudum) ; Journ. Roy 
Hort. Soc., vol. xxxviii., part 2, p. exlvi. fig. 118. 
Crentrat Cutna. North-western Hupeh, July and October, 
1907, E. H. Wilson 693. 
738. Muehlenbergia Arundinella, Aid/. [Gramineae-Agrostideae] 5 
quoad magnitudinem affinis JZ. sylvaticae Torr., spiculis longioribus 
et aristis brevioribus differt. : : 
Herba 6-12 dm. alta, culmis solidis. Folia linearia, acuminata, 
25 cm. longa, 6 mm. lata, pubescentia; ligula ciliata ; vagina 
pubescens, 14 em. longa. Panicula elongata, stricta, 30 cm. longa, 
ramis copiosis gracilibus spinulosis. Spiculde purpurascente-virides, 
adpressae, subremotae, brevissime pedicellatae, ciliis ad bases albis. 
Glumae I et II lanceolatae, acuminatae, augustae, 4 mm. longae, pur- 
purascentes vel virides, dorso et marginibus spinulosae ; gluma 
(fertilis) straminea, glabra, 3 mm, longa; arista 1-2 cm, longa, ad 
basin spinulosa, gradatim in apicem album capilliformem attenuata. 
Antherae quadratae, oblongae, brunneae. Stigmata plumosa, atro- 
purpurea. Rhachilla ultra glumam producta, brevis, lata, oblonga. 
Lodiculi obcuneati, truncati. Caryopsis cylindrica, angustissima, 
Versus apicem paullo attenuata, 2 mm. longa. 
