44, ICONES PLANTARUM. 
rate ea plurinervis, 
nervis 2 ceteris evidentioribus. Stamina 3? Styli breves, distincti, 
stigmatibus plumosis. Caryopsis gluma paleaque inclusa, libera.—G. 
BENTHAM. 
Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Spikelet. 3. Flowering glume and palea. 4, Flowering glume, 
opened out, 5. Palea, opened out. 6. Pistil. 7. Caryopsis, 
Puate 1362, 
ACIACHNE PULVINATA, Benth. 9. 
Gramines, Tribe AGRosTIDER (Stipee). 
Aciachne, Benth. gen. nov., Char. gen. Spicule unisexuales, ¢ 
i Spicula ? 1-flora, in pedunculo terminali unica, erecta, 
rhachilla brevissima supra glumas inferiores articulata, ultra florem 
non producta. ume 3, 2 inferiores vacue, late 
nace subhyaline et rigidule, obtuse, mutice, parum inequales, sub 
ata ci m™m volut erne in acu ongum teres rigidum 
producta ; palea brevior, inclusa, hyalina, latiuscula, circa florem con- 
voluta, tenuiter 2 cule parve. Staminodia 0. Styli 
distincti, stigmatibus plumosis. 
rigida subindurata inclusa, libe 
A. pulvinata, Benth. MS., single species. 
Has. Andes of South America, 
most annoying weed to walk through 
Purdie; New Granada, Goudo 
marshy ground, forming a dense mass, Jameson, n. 157; Aigapata, in 
Peru, where it forms large masses, Lechler, n. 3134, also in Hohen- 
Le P 
acker’s distribution of Lechler’s lants under the nrimbak 1813, as 
Caryopsis (immatura) oblonga, glama 
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