EKMAN, NEUE BRASILIANISCHE GRASER. 15 
’aspalum Löfgrenii n. sp. 
Tafel 3, Fig. 1; Tafel 6, Fig. 5. 
Perenne. Culmus (unieus tantum suppetit) stricte erectus, 
simplex, metralis, basi incrassata vaginis persistentibus, pilo- 
sis, pallide fuscis tectus, 5-nodis, levis, glaber. Folia ad 
basin eulmi aggregata: vagine inferiores a culmo solute, ex- 
planate, firme, ciliatze, inferne sericeo-piloss, superiores cul- 
mum laxe amplectantes, striatule, lzeves, marginibus prsesertim 
laxe breviterque pilose, summe aphylle, omnes internodiis 
longiores, ut culmus vaginis omnino tectus videatur; ore 
colloque barbulato; ligula nulla; lamine e basi equilata late 
lineares, longe acutatz, ad 25 cm longe, 11 mm late, firme, 
plane, ez foliorum basalium etiam exsiccate persistentes, 
fuscz, supra glaucescentes, velutino-villose, subtus sublzves, 
laxe breviterque pilose, marginibus scaberrime, confertim 
tenuinerves, costa media vix prominula. Racemi 8 singuli, 
fere 6 em longi, erecto-patuli, internodiis 3 em longis sejuncti, 
laxiusculi, subgraciles, recti, paniculam formantes oblongo- 
lanceclatam, rhachi communi subtereti, glaberrima, axillis 
barbatis pilis ad 8 mm longis, rhachi racemi undulata, triquetro- 
applanata, margine scaberula, spiculis multo angustiore. Spi- 
cule bine, quadriseriales, intermedix confluentes, pedicellate, 
pedicellis glabris, levibus, iisdem spicularum terminalium 
hasce »quantes, iis lateralium his dimidio brevioribus, ovato- 
oblong, 2,5 mm longe, 1,2 mm late, laxe dispositz (fere ut 
in Paspalo laxo LAM.), antice plane, postice convexe, laxe 
adpresso-pilosule, livido-viridule. Glume steriles 3: gluma I. 
(in genere raro occurrit) minuta, vix 1 mm longa, triangu- 
laris, pilosa, enervis, sspissime violascens; gluma II. (h. e. 
gluma I. spec. plur.) postica, late elliptico-ovalis, obsolete 
apiculata, 5-nervis, nervis dorso sat exsculptis, lateralibus 
sibi approximatis, superne sspe confluentibus; gluma III. 
Ilm zquans, quam ea glabrior; gluma IV. fertilis sterilibus 
equilonga, coriacea, punctulato-striata, scaberula, obsolete 
3-nervis, pallide stramineo-viridis. Palea glumam zquans, 
ei similis, sed binervis, dorso plana. Anthere violacex, 2 mm 
longe. Stigmata atro-brunnea. 
