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parce minuteque velutino-pilosis, dorso ad conjunctionem lim- 

 borum zona stricta breviter denseque gossypino-pubescenle 

 alba ornalae, intiis glaberrimae, ad os ligula strictiuscula inae- 

 quilalerali, membranaceo-subcartilaginea, fuscescente v. palle- 

 scente primo integra dein irregulariter lacérala, glabra v. acie 

 minutissime sparseque ciliololata donatae. Paniculae in culmi v. 

 ramorum apicibus, terminales, ampjiusculae, circumscriptione 

 elliptico-lanceolatae, longiuscule pedicellatae (5-10" long.), 

 pedicello vagina et folio ceteris simillimis involuto; rachide 

 primaria erecta (15-25" long.), subtereti v. leniter pauceque 

 canaliculata et obtuse angulata, subopace viridi dense minute- 

 que longitudinaliter striolata, imperspicue scabrida, ápice 

 pedicellifero-fertili; ramis subpatentibus v. divaricatis (prae- 

 cipue inferís), alteráis, gradatim ex ápice basin versus remoliori- 

 bus, longioribus ac compositis, infimis saepius solitarüs (2,5-5" 

 long.), mediis 3-4 aproximato-subverticillatis, manifesté et acule 

 angulosis, basi subpubescentibus ceterum scnbridis \iridibus, 

 densiuscule inferné ramululigeris superno pedicelligeris, subra- 

 cemosis, ápice fertilibus; pedicellis acule triquetris, scabridis, 

 viridibus, rachidi adpressis, rectis v. subflexuosis inferis ramu- 

 luliformibus, superis simplicibus v. geminatis, altero bí'.sali 

 brevissimo, altero longiusculo {¿-3'" long.), ápice non v. vix in- 

 crassatis, truncato-subexpansulis, área concava acule submem- 

 branaceo-marginata, centro mamillato-prominula donalis. Spi- 

 oulae mediocres (3,5-4'" long. = 2-2,5'" diam.), eilipüco-obo- 

 vatae, turgidulae, obtusae, virides, a pedicellis articulatis (ad 

 maturilalem praesertim) mox secedenles, 2-florae; gluma infera 

 concavo-subsaccala, late ovala, tertiam spiculae longitudinis 

 partem non v. vix superans, basi late rotundata, ápice brevis- 

 simo obtusissimeque acúlala, subscarioso-herbaceo-membrana- 

 cea, viridis, profunde concava, margine integro tenuiore subpal- 

 lidiore apicem versus albo-puberulo, validule 7-nervosa; gluma 

 supera longitudine spiculae vix brevior, latissime elliptica v. 

 elliptico-obovata, ulrinque obtuse rotundata, concava, margine 

 integerrimo, ápice obtusato-subcoarctato noduloso albo-puberulo, 

 viridis, 9-nervosa; flos inferus neuter bivalvis, válvula infera 

 majore forma ac consitenlia glumae superioris, fíorem "^ vix 

 superante, eumque strictissime amplectente, glabra, viridi, ápice 

 coarctatulo-noduloso, non v. vix albo-puberulo, 9-nervosa, vál- 

 vula infera lenuissime membranácea, virescenli-hjalina, flore? 



