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jctate e latere emrapens. Spicula 7-8-10 lin. long 



flosculis inferior 



em lonffam 



aristseformem attenuate), 7-9-nervi, hermaphroditum pilosiusculran subaequante vel superante. 

 Palea inferior (flosculi fertilis) ovato-oblonga, subulato-acuminata, coriacea, carinata, fusco-liirsutula, 

 upiceaue prasertim villoso-ciliata j superior subaequilonga, laevissima, chartacea, mutica, obtusa. 



ribae. Stamina 2-3. Stylus bulbosus, apice bifidus in 

 ). Germen trigoimm, glabrum." — Nees et Ruprecht ; 

 > descrintioni congruente, ad oras vaarinarum, setulas 



truncatse 



rin 



Steudel, I. e. $ ait, " Video in i 

 rigidas : vix species diversa." 



Judging from description alone, I think this species is scarcely sufficiently distin- 

 guished from 31. speciosa, Spreng., the only difference of any consequence being the 

 absence of a fringe at the mouth of the vagina. But Ruprecht had seen specimens of 

 both, which I have not. I must, however, mention that in the text Huprecht describes 

 both lower neutral flowers as longer than the hermaphrodite one ; whereas in his figure 

 31 the lowest flower is shown to be very much shorter, which it doubtless is. 



7. M. Ktjnthii, Rupr. I. c. 127, tab. x. fig. 30. " Spiculis solitariis, flosculis 2 inferi- 



oribus pilosis, secundo hermaphroditum nigro-hirsutum superante, vaginis ore nudis." 

 — Steud. I. c. 338. M. speciosa, Kth, Rev. Gram. i. 139, 333, t. 79 ! optima ; Enum. 

 429, Supl. 354, non. Spreng. 



Hab 



20-30-pedalis, ramulis longissimis, glabris, duris 



t Ruprecht. 



s. Folia lineari-lan 

 subtus idauceserntia 



nitida cincta. Vagina sulcato-striatse, glabra, levigate, 



I at 



sub re eta 



spiculis solitariis, secundis, imbricatis, vagina suprema duplo breviore, r.vserta. Spicula 



subulato brevissimo, secundo 



hirsutum vix scqunntc vel supcrante 



subobtusa; superior vix brevior, anice bifida 



M. Neesii B,wpr."—Kunth 



minor sequilatcra. Media inter M. spe- 



ll. Spicules in capitulum densum 



\TTT' S°° ker ' ICOn " PL *' 273, m ( 184 °)- S P iculis in oapitalum glomeratis 

 tolus laUs oblongis, yaginis ore longe hmbmfa-Chmquta fimbriate ? Stead, l.e 



Trin7Sl Du S blL nSUSti ° ribUS ' ^"^ (Jfe<ttw » io > ***** Munw in herb 



Hat. in Brasilia, Rio Janeiro, Gardner, no. 136 ! Tweedie, 1324, Riedd v . 



' "'ZX T££ «T"*> -■•** apice capitoinn, g ,, llti , ) , ls . u0( , is erum . 



tactu 



basi valde inaequalia, 4-6 



« >aiae maquaha, 4-6 poll, longa, 9-15 lin. lata, acuta, glabra Bed 

 tertian* non discernendis, petiolata, petiolo supra hirsute. Vf 



•re Dills Innfriia vail/I;* ~l~ZM. n ~ , . *■ 



«pi«me .hirsute ore pilis longis validis rigidis runs fimbria. 



brevi quasi involucratum. Spicula* 



(iensuni 



lon ff ^ fWnli* o • * • -t — 4 asi mvol ucratum. 



g«, noseuhs 2 urfenonbus neutris, hermaphrodite duplo brcviorib 



fimus sterilis, 



