ICONES PLANTARUM. 45 
from the summit of the Cordilleras near San Antonio, but as the very 
false name of Distychia muscoides, Nees, is given, there may be some 
' error in the label; La Paz, olivia , at an elevation of 13.996 feet, 
Pentland; Alpine region, province of Larecaja, Bolivia, at an elevation 
of 3600 to 4200 metres, Mandon, n. 1287. 
Gramen perenne, nanum, multicaule, pulvina latissima -densissime 
cxspitosa formans. Oaules cum foliis NE ne at foliorum vagini 
imbricatis diu obtecti, basi demum fere denudati. Folia densissime 
conferta, n i 1 
v. reourvis Sanyo tesa eas rigidis tod sir raro semi- 
rigidus, folia wigher: sistent v. iis brevior. Glwme vacue 
sistentes, #-1 lin. longs; florens cum acumine dimidio v. ieneiale 
lon 
Not uwithstaniling the number of specimens from most of the above 
localities, I have been unable to detect any but female spikelets, which 
on some of them are numerous, often past flower, and showing only 
the persistent outer glumes. e males are probably on distinct 
nts 
male of t this or an allied species, may be represented . Lechler’s 
eng gathered at Gachapata in Peru, a mo oth earlier than the 
males above referred to, and distributed with the number See i 
shaae the leaves are longer, a all erect, and very rigid, 1 to 3 in. long. 
The spikelets are several in a loose, slight] branched, rigid, erect 
panicle of 1 to 2 inches, the Auinke precisely like those of the ome 
-but_ enclosing three perfect stamens he ovary reduced to 
ovoid oo. with two small poin ah, BENTHAM. 
Fig. eed, 2. Leaf. 3. Spikelet. 4, 5. Lower empty glumes. 6. Ovary and 
ihe 7 Pe, dials, and ovary, the St do fatty. fallen off. 8. Flowering 
glume, almost gprcpte the palea. Pa ring brane : from the specimens 
repres sented by the wae general yess upper general figure represents 
Specimens from the same localities with much os leaves wk narrower sheaths, 
Puate 1363 A. 
ANTHOCHLOA LEPIDA, Nees. 
Graminea, Tribe Fusrocez. (Melicee). 
A. lepida, Nees in Pl. Meyen. 164 (lapsu calami Antochloa). 
Has. Andes of Peru and Bolivia at an elevation of 14,500 to 
15,000 feet, Meyen, Mandon, n. 1372. 
Gramen nanum, dense cxespitosum, caulibus folioram vaginis ob- 
