Piate 2608. 
POA MINIMIFLORA, Stapf. 
GRAMINES. ‘Tribe, Festuce®. 
Poa minimiflora, Stapf (sp. _nov.); affinis Pow epileuce, Stapf 
(Deyeuxia epileuca, Stapf), sed foliis tenuiter setaceis, paniculis 
uberioribus, spiculis minoribus diversa. 
Gramen dense ce-pitosum, innovationibus intravaginalibus = Cu/mi 
erecti, gracillimi, 3-5 poll. alti, leves, glabri, ad m edium dense pn, range 
internodiis paucis summo excepto brevi bus subbasalibus. 
basin congesta, glaberrima, levia ; vagine arctz, laxe striate ; Gauls 
yalin 
15-3 poll. long, } lin, late ———), rigidule, erecte. Panicule 
lineari-oblonye vel lineares, 3 #-1 poll. longe, subcontract, stricte, 
rami solitarii vel geminati, stricte-erecti, inferiores 3-4 lin. ongi, 
parce ramulosi vel ad racemum redacti, ut rhachis filiformes, ees in 
1-2-flore, oblonge vel ovate, vix i ; leete 
virides vel cupreo-purpurascentes, variegatz ; rhachille processus longi- 
usculus, glaber. Glumce ovate, subacute, dorso acer, 
in carina scaberule, inferior mediam spiculam sequans, 1—nervis, 
ee, 
longa, antice plus minusve sulecata; embryo minutus; hi lum 
punctiforme 
New Guinea : Mount Seratchley, 12,200 ft., Giwlianetti. O. Starr. 
Fig. 1, a ligule; 2, a one- flowered spikelet ; 3, floret of the same, with the con- 
tinuation eh the vinchilin : ; 4, a two-flowered spikelet; 5, a trey: flattened from the 
; 6, a grain, side view; 7, the same, front view ; 8, same, eross section. 
All enlarged. 
