ICONES PLANTARUM. oe 
1-2-pedale. Folia inferiora conferta brevia, —— aye distantia, 
vagina longa; lamina anguste linearis, plana, acuta v in acumen sub- 
ulatum producta, 2-5 poll. longa; ligula br revs, "ciliat a. Spica 
terminalis, longe pedunculata, dense cylindracea e hlet subsimilis, 
3-11 poll. longa, 4-5 lin. diametro. Spicule 1- rarius 2-flore, circa 
rhachin inarticulatam densissime conferte, singule cum pedicello 
mucronem reducta; terminalis minor, vacua v. paleam solam rarius 
orem masculum fovens. Palea gluma pa aulo brevior, subhyalina, 
Q-carinata. Stamina 3. Styli distincti, elongati, stigmatibus fili- 
formibus pilis brevibus villosis. aryopsis oblonga, levis, gluma 
eget bo laxe inclusa, a palea libera. 
8 grass is interesting as the only exception to the great series of 
Boies in the articulation of the pedicel below the spikelet, whilst the 
empty glume or male flower ee rn fertile one removes it from the 
is also unusual, for it has never 
been found in any ree eirpenee “ae oes South Africa and 
Affghanistan.—G. Brent 
Fig. 1. isgarael 2. Outer ~, glume. 3. oe glume. 4. The same 
opened out. lea. 6. Pistil. 7. Caryopsis 
PuateE 1374. 
DISSANTHELIUM SUPINUM, Trin. 
Gramine#, Tribe Fustuces£ (Eragrostidee). 
D. supinum, Trin. in Linnea, x. 305, hu mile, dense cespitosum, 
Latte brevi dense cre spic culis 2-fi halaridium peru- 
anum, Nees in Pl. Meyen ; T6E Psesatnelvuh sclerochloides, Fourn. 
Ca Mexic., 112. 
of Peru and Bolivia, Lech ler, n. 1832, Mandon, n. 1849, 
also in Mexico (Fournier er). 
ules basi vaginis folioram obtecti, cum foliis dense ceespitosis 
ed gee rarius cum panicula 3- pollicares glabri. Folia angusto- 
linearia, acuta, ligula membranacea 1-2 lin. longa. Pedunculus vix 
Has. Andes 
apparently at considerable elevations ; 
