i5o P A N I c E A E. Paspalum. 



culmca infcriora doJranlalia — pedalia. Peilunculi e vagina suprcma 2, satis 

 longi. Axis eommunis i — 2 — 3-pollicaris. liacemi Knws.. Spicii/ae oh- 

 lusae aut aculiusculae, suhimbncato-biscrialcs, basi plcrunicpie pllis slipnlac. 

 Glumae binerves (iiervo niedio evanido). Pcrianlhium caslancum , basi nl- 

 bum, tenuissime punclulatum. 

 Paspalum barbalum N. ab Es. 1 — G-pedale, ereclum. r>accmis pluribus phui- 

 misve approximatis, subfasligiatis — (vel jubato-sparsis, patentibus) — 

 (5 — 7-pollicaribns): Axi — vcl sub nr, gI;il)ro: Spiculls pl. min. lineali- 

 bus, biserialibus, Hneari-ellipticis, l)rcvissimc pcdircllalis, giabris ciliolatisve 

 (5-ncrvibus): Foliis subfiliformi-involulis (I. plariis), glabris hirsutisve. 

 fl) Fiaccmis crcctis, subfastigiatis, basi tomcnloso-barbulalis; culmo luimiliori: 

 nodis pubcsccntibus, vaginis apice pilosis: 

 Puspalum barbalum N. ab Es! Agr. bras. p. 21. Trin. ic. gr. IX. lab. 98. — 

 P. barbigerum Klh, Agr. synopt. p. 45. 

 Idcm, foliis infcrioribus dcnsc hirsulis. 

 ^) Racemis adullioribus patcnli ct dissiliusculo-jubatis (juba ultrapcdali), basi 

 nudis; culmo clato; nodls vaginisquc opice obsolclius barbatis glabrisve: 

 foliis saepc planis. 



V. spp. r>ras. 

 Culmus 3 — 4-nodis. Van^inae aut subcompresso-lcrcliusculac aut lerelcs. 

 X/^w/a brevissima. /w/za angustissima, in a subfiliformi-involuta, in b supernc 

 saepe explanala: inferiora pro statura plantae pcdalia — bipedalia. Racemi 

 satis gracilcs, in gramine humiliori circilcr 10, contracto-erecti; in alliori (8) 

 30 — 40, ad axin communcm tcnucm, dodranlalcm jubato-sparsi, subhori- 

 zonlali-palcntes. Spiculae in liac varietate minus arcle cjuam in genuino ?^ecsii 

 gramine imbricatae, cclcrum cx toto eaedcm. Glumae 5- ("-) ncrves. — 

 Gramen, (piod var. b diximus. aperte nil ni*i Nccsiannm, vcgelatlone ubcriori 

 magis explicatum. 



