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Kuntli, and Endlicher have described the two lowest flowers as glumes, and tlie ordinary 

 spicula as 1-flowered, with a barren terminal rudiment. I am, however, of opinion that 

 Ruprecht is correct in considering (" ex analogia cum Rettbergiis," and several species of 

 Cliusquea) that the true glumes are reduced to a minimum, and that the apparent 

 glumes are really two barren flowers. Sprengel also suspected that the only species ho 

 was acquainted with was dioecous ; but I have not seen any indications of such being 

 the case in any of the specimens of the different species which I have examined. In 

 some very rare instances I have observed two perfect hermaphrodite flowers in the 

 spiculae of 31. Claiisseni and M. speclosa, the other portions of the spicula remaining 

 unaltered. 



Conspectus Specierum, 

 Sectio I. Spiculae in spica tcrminali simplici, iinilatcrales. 



Spiculse ternaj, vaginpe ore fimbriataj . . .. . . . . 1. M. tcrnata. 



Spiculse solitariae, vagina; ore fimbriatse. 

 Fimbriis basi sequalibus. 



Flosculo secnndo longe ?-o«/ra^-acuminato, liermapbroclito patente 



vix breviore 2. M. speciosa. 



Plosculo secundo vix acuminatOj hermapliroditum adpressiim fere 



.equante 3. M. Clausseni. 



Flosculo secundo vix acuto, hermaplirodito fere duplo breviore . 4. M. bi-evispica. 



Fimbriis basi plumosis b. M. sparsiflora. 



Spiculai solitarise, vagina; ore nud?e. 



Flosculis 2 inferioribus glabris . . . . . . . Q. M. Neesii. 



Flosculis 2 inferioribus pilosis . . . , . . . 7. M. Kunthii. 

 Sectio II. Spiculse in capitulum densum terminale congestse . . . . 8. Af. capitata. 



1. M. TERNATA, ISTecs in Agros. Bras. 529. Sj^iculis ternis; j)alea inferiore flosculi fertilis 

 brevissime mucronata, scabra, flosculum secundum neutrum duplo superante; vaginis 

 apice fimbriatis. — Kunth, I. c. -129 ; Hupr. /. c. 12G, tab. x. fig. 28 ; Steud. I. c. 

 338. 



Hab. In Brasilia : in sylvis, alt. 1200-1800 ped. s. m., prtesertim super Serra do Mar, prov. St. Pauli, Rio 

 do Jaueii'o, Minaes Geraes (" Tagaora" incolis), Martius. s. v. Nees et Ruprecbt. 



" Culmus 20-pedalis, crassitie 3-5 pollicum, ramis vcrticillatis, glabris, ramulis florentibus Isevibus. Folia 

 oblongo-lanceolata, 7-9 poll, longa, f-ll poll, lata, acuminata, basi etiam acuta, glabra, subtus j^al- 

 lidiora, nervis secuudariis utrinque 10-11, fascia obsolcta. Vagina striato-sulcatae, basi glabrae, 

 apicem versus pubescenti-scabrfe, ore breviter {Rupr.) vel fibris lougis subcii-rbosis (Xees) fimbriatfe. 

 Spica subrecta, 5-pollicaris, exserta, rliachi dorso glabra; spiculis ternis, biseriatis, imbricatis, 6-line- 

 alibus. Spicula lanccolata, j)atens, flosculo iufimo vix 1| lin. lougo, 1-nervi, carinato j secundo lierma- 

 phrodito, duplo breviore, mucronato, 9-nervi, pallide fusco, viridi punctato. Palea inferior (flosculi 

 fertilis) ovata, 9-11-nervis, brevissime mucronata, pubescenti-scabra, viiidi punctata, amplectens 

 superiorem paulo longiorem, glabram, apice tantum scabram. Squamulce 3, obovatse, apice ciliatse, 

 albse, basi subplicatte ferrugineae et paullo crassioi'es. Stylus brevis, crassus et fere bulbosus, stig- 

 matibus longis, filiformibus, pubescentibus. Gcrmeu couico-trigonum, glabrum." — Ruprecht et Nees. 



The native name " Tagaora " is not peculiar to this species, but is used for two other 

 species of this genus as well as for Gnadtia tagaora, G. virgata, Arundinaria vei-ticillatay 



