ICONES PLANTARUM. 
Puate 1376. 
CRYPTOCHLORIS SPATHACEA, Benth. 
Graminea, Tribe CHLORIDEE. 
hloris, gen. nov., Char. gen. Spicule 2-floree (rarius 1-flore ?) 
secusrhachin continuum spice ob enone css 2-seriatim conferte. 
Glume 2 inferiores vacue, persistentes, ti issime lineares, cea 
cate, glabra, fae ineequales, sitalat subsequantes, acute, muticse 
florentes membranacex, late ovate, 1-nerves, extus longe ciliate, pi 
minute 2- porate sub apice dorso arista rigida instructe ; superiores 
plures vacue obovate v. subglobos, gradatim minores glabrioresque, 
omnes aristate. Palea gluma florenti paullo minor, 2-dentata, pilosula, 
mutica. Stamina... Stylus... Caryopsis gluma inclusa, obovoidea, 
ibera.—Gramen annuum, nanum, spica_ simplici densa bractea 
spathiformi semi-inclusa. 
C. spathacea, Benth., single species. 
Has. Most probably Patagonia, the only specimen known being in 
a collection made by Capt. Middleton almost entirely in Patagonia, 
and deposited in Forsyth’s Herbarium, though this particular specimen | 
had no locality assigned to it. 
Gramen annuum, vix 2-pollicare, ramosum, caulibus infra yer 
centiam }-1-pollicaribus, foliis pauci atis, lamina lineari. 
Bractea spathiformis unica (v. 2°), terminalis, 8-10 lin. lo onga, latius- 
cula, membranacea, spicam fere omnino includens. Spica intra 
bracteam sessilis, setis aristisque glumarum florentium quasi Passe 
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