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8 2. STYLI SEU STYLI RAMI DUO. 
* Inflorescentia mascula spicatim seu paniculatim cymosa. 
œ. Spicule mascule axem per marginem respicientes ut in Lolio. 
1. H. laxiflora (Nees in Linnæa 5, p. 663); culmis tenuis- 
simis a basi divisis; vaginis laxiusculis mucronatis vel aristatis ; 
spiculis masculis paniculatim cymosis ; bracteis setaceo-aristatis. — 
Kunth Enum. 3, p. 451 ; Steud. Synops. 2, p. 264. 
(2? Culmi a basi diehotome divisi 15-20 cent. alti erecti teretes vel 
compressiusculi tenuissimi purpureo-maculati punetulati. Vaginæ 
laxiuscule convolutæ 7-8 mill. long. ellipticæ coriaceæ fuscæ superne 
membranaceæ, sub apice obtusiusculo hyalino, mucronatæ, mucrone 
erecto, quandoque longe setaceo-aristatæ demum lacerato-destructæ. 
Spiculæ mascul: in apice ramulorum in cymam paniculiformem diffu- 
sam dispositæ, singulæ 1 floræ 2-3 mill. long. 1-2 mill. lat. spatha vagi- 
niformi ipsa longiore suffultæ. Bracteæ oblongo-lanceolatæ acuminatæ 
setaceo-aristatæ chartaceæ flores superantes. Perianthii segmenta 
oblonga acuta; lateralia externa naviculari-conduplicata subferru- 
ginea apiculata; intermedium planiusculum.Segmenta interna 3 hyalina 
planiuscula externis paulo breviora. Antheræ oblongæ flavæ apieulatæ. 
Spicæ femineæ solitariæ terminales 1-floræ oblongæ vix 1 cent. long. 
3-4 mill. lat. Bracteæ laxe imbricatæ oblongæ longe setaceo-acuminatæ 
coriaceæ ferrugineæ purpureo-maculatæ. Perianthii feminei segmenta 
externa æqualia rigida oblonga nervo medio prominente notata. Seg- 
menta interiora parum breviora convoluta hyalina basi flavida ovarium 
oblongum obtusum 1-loculare obvolventes. Styli duo lineares basi, ut 
videtur, in stylopodium flavidum dilatati. 
ariat ; staturà gracillima enim evadit. 
Ad "tem B. Sp. Table Mountain (Eckl., 843, Eckl. et Zeyh. 56, 
6 ; 10, 10) d'. (Drége, 10 pro parte) j et 9 
ra 8. HE. Eckloniana (Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 10, p.263, tab. 1, A 
fig. 1-7) ; culmis teretibus versus medium dichotome flabellatim ramo- 
sissimis, ramis virgatis; vaginis arctis compressis subulaio-mucrona- 
tis; spiculis masculis 3-5 in cymam simplicem approximatis, singulis 
Cylindrato-oblongis ; bracteis oblongis obtusis. apice laxiusculis ; 
' Spiculis femineis in apice ramulorum plerumque solitariis nunc 2-9 
approximatis oblongis demum cuneatis 1-floris; bracteis subulato- 
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