PsilurUS. GRAMINEiE 683 



78. — Rottbollia monandra Gav. Ic. I. p. 72, tab. 39. — Asprella 

 nardiformis HoslGram. IV, l. 29. 



Hab. in collibas aridis, Alticae (Spr! Heldr I) Thraciae (Griseb. Janka!), 

 Anatoliaj orientalis ad Smyrnam (Fleisch!), Lyci» (Bourjj!), Ciliciai (Bal!), 

 Syric-e littoralis (BI!) et interioris ad Aleppo (Ky !), Anlilibani in monte Garbi 

 5003' (Ky !), Palestin;« (Boiss I), Tauriae (Stev.), Transcaucasiae (Hoh.)- 



Ar. Geogr. Regio mediterranea Europue, Africa borealis. 



MONEUMA (Pal. ^rost. 416). 



Spiculifi solitariae iii rachidis excavalionibus immersoe uniflorte 

 rudimeiito pedicellirorrni secundi floris interdum obvio. Glunue coria- 

 cese plurinervise spicuhe terminalis binjB opposilae lateralium unica 

 florem obtegens. Plosculus tenuiter membranaceus dorso rachi- 

 dem speclans, glumella acuta, palea bicarinata bidentala. Squa- 

 mulse bina3 integrre. Stamina tria. Stigmata bina subsessilia plumosa 

 lateraliter emergentia. Garyopsis oblongo-linearis utrinque convexa 

 hilo lineari-oblongo notata. — Herba annua. — Genus a Leptnro 

 gluma spicularum lateralium unica et flosculi quoad axem silu 

 diversum. 



I. M. cylindrica (Willd. Sp. I, 464, sub RottboUid) annua, 

 radice fibrosa, culmis soepius fasciculalis erectis vel ascendentibus 

 inferne scepe ramosis crassiusciilis, foliis linearibus planis demum 

 involutis, spica crassd lereti elongata recla rarius subincurva, spicu- 

 lis internodio sublongioribus in racheos excavationibus occultatis 

 unifloris,glumis spiculce terminalis binis oppositis lateralium omnium 

 unica coriacea lanceolata acula pungenlc pluriiiervi primum palente 

 demum rachidi adpressissimael llosculum iucludente, glumella et palea 

 hyalino-membranaceis illa lanceolala acufa O. M. cylindrica Coss. et 

 Dur. Exp. Alg. p. 214, — Leptnrns cylindricus Trin. Fund. 1^23. — 

 Rottbollia sabatata Savi. — Mon. snbnlata Pa\. Agr. 1 17 — Ophiu- 

 rns subulatus Link, Rchb. Germ. fig. 224 — Rotibottia incurrata 

 Siblh. et Sm. Fl. Grffic. I. 72 non L. 



Hab. iu areoosis et cultis sa^pius maritimis vel salsis, Gr<f cia in Ptlopon- 

 neso (Bory!), iEtolia ad Mis.solunghi (Heldr!). AtticA in moute Parnes 

 (Heldr!), Eubaea(VVild!), Byzantii (Noe !),SmyrnA(Fleischl) et prope Milelum 

 (Bal 1), Gypro (Ky. 239 !), Egypto in Oasi parv^ (Asch!), Syria httorali ad 

 Tortosam (Gailll), in salsis deserti SinJjar Assyriai (Haussk!). 



Descriptio et Icon R. incurvatce in Flora Graecd huc nec ad Lept. incur- 

 vatum .spectaut. 



Ar. Geogr. Lusitania, Hispania. Gallia auatralis, Italia, Istria, Dalmatiaj 

 Africa borealis, P. B. Spei. 



