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30. C. capitata, Nees in Linnsea, ix. 489. Capitulis tmninalibus densissimis, rhachi 



pedicellisque puberulis, glumis setaceis, longis, spiculam equantilms ; foliis lanceo 

 latis, basi rotundatis.— Rupr. I. c. 125, tab. viii. ; Stood. /. c. 338. Mellbergia capi- 

 tata, Nees. I.e. 



Hab. in Brasilia, Sellow ! Lhotsky. v. s. 



Culmus scandens, rigidus, crassitie lineali, ramulis creberrimis e nodis fascicnlatim erumpentibut, 



amseis 



aliis sterilibus 3-4-phyllis, aliis subaphyllis, aliis foliifcris florii'crisquc. Fbtia onto- 

 lanceolata 3-4| poll, longa, 3-6 lin. lata, glabra, basi rotundata, ncrvis secundaria 6-8 subtus parum 

 conspicuis, "venulis transversis anastomosim dimidiam exhibentibus." Vagina glabrae, ligula brevi 

 rotundata. Capitulum suborbiculare, 6-10-lineale, ad basin foliolis 2 suffultum, rhachi pedicellisque 

 striato-sulcatis puberulis. Spicule 3-4 lin. longse, compressae, carinatae, ovatae, flavido-straniineap 

 fasciculis parvis, ad rhacbim communem dense et subsecundo dispositae, imbricatse, glumis letaccis 

 flosculos omnes sequilongos attingentibus. Flosculi neutri basi nervosi, acuti, subpubic entrs. 

 Hermaphroditi palea inferior 5 -nervis, apice subobtuso mucronulata ; superior apice bifida, icquilonga. 

 Squamulce valde inaequales, efimbriatse (teste Rupr. in icone) . 



31. C 



Chusqueje cognitce steriles (foliiferce tantum) igiturque dubuB. 



phylla, Nees in Linn. ix. 489. Foliis linearibus, elomratis, acuminatis, 



basi ineequilatero-cuneatis, 5-nervosis, glaucis, subtus basin versus uno latere p 

 longis hirsutis. — Rupr. L c. 119, et Steud. 1. c. 336, sub Arthrostylidium Trinii. 



Hab. in Brasilia, Sellow. v. s. absque floribus. 



Culmus crassitie pennse cygnese, ramulis numerosis, 6-18 poll, longis, glabri 

 pressiusculis et scrobiculato-punctatis erumpentibus. Folia angustissi 

 lin. lata, basi attenuata, insequilatera, apice setaceo- acuminata, margine 



n 



dense pilosa. Vagina 



glabrae, striatae, ore bilobae ciliataeque, ligula nulla. 



I have already stated, at p. 45, that Ruprecht and Steudel thought it probable that this 

 plant might be a sterile state of Arthrostylidium Trinii, but that I did not coincide with 

 them. The specimens that I have seen bear a general resemblance to several species of 

 Chusquea, especially to C. Dombeyana. In C. Wdkesii the leaves, which are 4-6 lines 

 hroad, are hairy below on one side only ; and the same one-sided pubescence is found 

 occasionally in the narrow-leaved Guaduas. Nees does not mention this pubescence or. 

 the lower surface of the leaves, but says that they are fringed on one margin and smooth 

 on the other. 



32. C 



-. heterophylla, Nees in Linn. ix. 488. « Oulmo tetragon pubescenti-scabro 

 foliis aliis lanceolato4mearibus, aliis ovato-aaminatis, acutissimis, sessihbus, supi 



scabris, si 

 I. c. 336. 



btus glaucis, *to&*."-Bupr. he, 122 (in not. ad C. pinifblia)^ Steud 



Hab 



Nees 



'O 



folia) , ramulis e nodis dense 



fusco hirto-tomentosus et nigro 

 ulis. Folia lanceolato-linearia, 



