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30. C. CAPITATA, Nees in Linnsea, ix. 189. Capitulis terminalibus densissimis, rliachi 

 pedicellisque puberiilis, gluniis selaceis, longis, spiculam aequantibus ; foliis lanceo- 

 latis, basi rotundatis. — Rupr. I. c. 125, tab. viii. ; Stcud. l. c. 338. llettbergla capi- 

 tata, Nees, I. c. 



Hab. in Brasilia, Sellow ! Lhotsky. v. s. 



Culmus scaudens, rigiclus, crassitie lineali, ramulis crebcrrimis o nodis fasciculatim crumpcutibus, 

 spithamseis, aliis sterilibus 3— i-phyllis, aliis subapliyllis, aliis foliiferis floriferisque. Folia ovato- 

 lanceolata 3-4| poll, longa, 3-6 lia. lata, glabra, basi rotundata, nervis secundariis 6-8 subtus parum 

 conspiciiis, "venulis transversis anastomosim dimidiam exbibeutibus." Vagince glabrre, ligula brevi 

 rotundata. Capilulum suborbiculare, 6-10-lineale, ad basin foliolis 2 sutfultum, rliachi pedicellisque 

 ~ striato-sulcatis puberulis. Spicule 3-4 lin. longse, compresste, carinatae, ovatse, flavido-straminese, 

 fasciculis parvis, ad rhacliim communem dense et subsecundo dispositfe, imbricatre, glumis sctaceis 

 flosculos omnes seqviilongos attingentibus. Flosculi neutri basi nervosi, acuti, subpubescentes. 

 Hermaphroditi palea inferior 5-nervis, apice subobtuso mueronulata ; superior apice bifida, Eequilonga. 

 Squamulce valde injequales, efimbriatse (teste Rupr. in icone) . 



CnuSQUE^ cognitce steriles {foliifercB tantum) igiturqne dubice.. 



31. C. LEPTOPHYLLA, Nees in Linn. ix. 489. Foliis linearibus, elongatis, acuminatis, 



basi insequilatero-cuneatis, 5-nervosis, glaucis, subtus basin versus uno latere pills 

 loiigis hlrsutis. — Rupr. I. c. 119, et Steud. I. c. 336, sub Arthrostylldkwi, Trinii. 



Hub. in Brasilia, Sellow. v. s. absque floribus. 



Culmus crassitie pennse cygneae, ramulis numerosis, 6-18 poll, longis, glabris, filiformibus, e nodis com- 

 pressiusculis et scrobiculato-punctatis erumpentibus. Folia angustissima, lg-5 poll, longa, vix 2 

 lin. lata, basi attenuata, inaequilatera, apice setaceo-acuminata, margine supero ciliata, glauca, nervis 

 secundariis utroque latere 2-3, subtus, ad basin, petiolum versus, uno latere dense pilosa. Vagina 

 glabrae, striata?, ore bilobse ciliataeque, ligula nulla. 



I have already stated, at p. 45, that Ruprecht and Steudel thought it probable that this 

 plant might be a sterile state of ArtkrostylkUum Trinii, but that I did not coincide with 

 them. The specimens that I have seen bear a general resemblance to several species of 

 Chusquea, especially to C. Dombeyana. In C. Tfilkesii the leaves, which are 4-G lines 

 broad, are hairy below on one side only ; and the same one-sided pubescence is found 

 occasionally in the narrow-leaved Guaduas. Nees does not mention this pubescence on 

 the lower surface of the leaves, but says that they are fringed on one margin and smooth 

 on the other. 



32. C. HETEROPHTLLA, Necs in Linn. ix. 488. " Culmo tetragono pubescenti-scabro, 



foliis aliis laiiceolato-linearibus, aliis ovato-nctiminatis, acutissimis, sessilibus, supra 

 scabris, suMus glaucis, glabris.'" — Rupr. I. c. 122 (in not. ad C. piiiifolia) ; Stcud. 

 I. c. 33G. 



Hab. in Brasilia, Sellow. s. v. Nees et Rupreclit. 



" Culmus obtuse tetragonus, scaber, infra nodos fusco hirto-tomentosus et nigro maculatus (ut in C. pbii- 

 folia), ramulis e nodis dense fasciculatis, patulis. Folia lanceolato-linearia, acutissima, sessilia, supra 



