158 \xviii. GUAMINE.E. [Cymbopui/uit 



at the lower nodes ; nodes feringinously hairy ; sheaths glabrous ; 

 ligule broad, oljtusely rounded or truncate, gla'orou.s, continued 

 laterally down the sheath forming niembi-anous veined wings; 

 lamina linear, or narrowly linear-lanceolate, constricted at the 

 base and tapering above to a setaceous apex ; panicle large, diffuse, 

 lax, in the larger specimens axillary as Avell as terminal ; idtimate 

 .spathes rufescent, lanceolate, generally very narrowly lanceolate, 

 acuminate, glabrous, exceeding in length the common peduncle 

 which is ferruginously hairy above and epinastic ; racemes sub- 

 sessile, with 1 and 2 fertile spikelets respectively ; appendices 

 short, blunt, reddish ; spikelets oblanceolate to narrowly suboval, 

 callus densely shortly hairy, hairs white, outer glume incompletely 

 9-nerved, green with a shortly produced, truncate, scarious, rufes- 

 cent, nerved apex, margins recurved embracing gl. II. which slightly 

 exceeds gl. I., and is scaphoid, 3-nerved, with scabridulous keel 

 and mucronate apex; gl. III. hyaline, 2-nerved, with inflexed 

 margins ciliate above ; fertile glume sliorter with an awn 2 to 

 2 J in. long springing from between the shortly 1)iiid apex ; awn 

 with a stout kneed ferruginously hirsutulovis column and glabrous 

 subula ; pedicelled spikelets reddish, lanceolate, acute, outer glume 

 with a weak slender awn equal or shorter than itself, inconspicu- 

 ously 7- to 9-nerved, sparsely hispidulous or glabrescent ; gl. II. 

 subequal, consjncuously 3-nerved, hyaline between the nerves ; 

 gl. III. shorter, delicate, hyaline, enerved, enveloping a (^ flower, 

 which is sometimes aborted. 



Leaf-sheaths stramineous reaching G in. in length, ligule H to 

 2 lines, blade to 22 in. long by 7 lines broad, the largest plicate 

 at the strong midrib with 5 well-marked nerves on either side, 

 surface and margin scabridulous. Panicles 10 to 18 in. or more 

 long; ultimate spathes 2 to 2^ in. long; racemes 8 to 10 lines 

 long ; appendage below lowest $ spikelet .\ line long, a few stiff 

 reddish hairs near its base nearly equalling the sessile spikelet ; 

 margins of joints and pedicels white-hairy ; 5 spikelet 3 to 3^ 

 lines long including the callus (^ to 1 line) ; back of outer glume 

 more or less pilosulose ; gl. III. 2 lines long : gl. IV. linear, scarcely 

 1 line, awn 2 to 2'^ in. Pedicel of c? (or neuter) spikelet 1^ lines, 

 spikelet 31 to 4?, lines, awn 2 to 5 lines long ; outer glume with 

 subcarinate hispidulous margins and incurved hyaline edges in- 

 folded over gl. II., which is subequal linear-oblong, acute, with 

 incurved edges round the oval-oblong gl. III. (If. line long) ; anthei's 

 1 line long or less. 



Near C. conjinis (Atulropogou confinis Hochst.), but dis- 

 tinguished by having 2 $ flow^ers in the large raceme, by its 

 smaller spikelets, the more membranous inconspicuously veined 

 outer glume of the $ spikelet, and the narrower less membranous 

 pedicelled spikelet with its inconspicuously nerved reddish outer 

 glume. 



Goi.UN(JO Ai.TO. — Native name Musoque. A very elegant annual 

 or biennial grass 2 to G sometimes 7 ft. high, with erect culm, and 

 reflexed or horizontally spreading leaves. Plentiful by thickets and 



