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nam glabram breviter petiolatis ; limbo ovato-lanceolato acuminato, 
æ-nervi; panicula racemiformi elongata angusta laxiflora; spiculis 
lanceolatis compressiusculis ; floribus distichis ; inferioribus nunc 3- 
natis ; bracteis inferioribus vacuis brevioribus 2. (Africa trop. occid.") 
101. Gigantochloa Kurz.? — Flores in spicula œ, hermaphroditi 
v. polygami ; bracteis rigidule membranaceis, muticis v. mucronato- 
acuminalis, œ-nervibus; inferioribus paucis ab extimagradatim auctis 
eLnune samma vacuis; glumella extima bracteis simili; intima autem 
nervi; carinis superne prominulis ciliatis. Stamina 6, omnia v. ex 
parte 1-adelpha; filamentorum tubo brevi v. demum elongato ; 
antheris linearibus. Glumellulæ 1-3, v. 0. Germen apice breviter papil- 
loso-pilosum. Fructus oblongus v. angustus, hinc sæpe sulcatus, 
inclusus at liber.—Frutices ; foliis et habitu Bambose; paniculæ ramis 
longis v. longissimis ; spiculis œ; glomerulis densis subglobosis dis- 
sis; rhachilla sæpe demum articulata. (Asia et Oceania trop.) 
102. Oxytenanthera Munro. — Flores (fere Gigantochloæ) in 
Spicula solitarii terminales hermaphroditi5. Bracteæ cœ, ab ima ad 
Supremam majores imbricatæ, rigide membranaceæ, nune scaberulæ, 
#nerves. Stamina 6, 1-adelpha ; filamentorum tubo primum brevi 
demumque longe tenuiterque tubuloso; antheris exsertis. Stylus lon- 
sus gracilis papillosus, apice 2, 3-fidus ; ramis pilosis. Fructus oblon- 
gus, laxe inclusus ; pericarpio membranaceo. — Arbores ; foliis 
flerisque Gigantochloæ ; spiculis elongato-conicis, glomeralis v. 
Subcapitatis; rhachilla basi ægre solubili. (Asia et Oceania trop.°) 
103. bendrocatamus N£EsT. — Flores polygami in spiculis 2- . 
Glunise membranaceæ v. rigidulæ, muticæ v. mucronalæ, %-THérves, 
tbinfima ad summas gradatim majores ; glumella breviore et angus- 
rm carinis nunG Ciliatis. Glumellukæ rudimentariæ 1,2, 
7 Slamina 6, libera; antheris linearibus. Stylus elongatus, Integer 
1. 
2 a 1.4. olyræfolia FRAxCH. fam.,96. — FRANGH., in Rev. gén. bot., I, 
+ : RO, in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVI, 123. 470. Li. ; 
Ps net TL 1211, n. 287. — Hack, 5. Additis nunc pautis inferioribus imper- 
bol. 11 4 96. — FRancH., in Rev. gén.  fectis; bractea intima 2-nervi. “ 
3. sp : 5 6. Spec. 5, 6. BED., IC. pl. ind. cr., 1. 234; 
135$ (part): pans? For. FL. brit. Burm.. FL. sylv. & 92. 
t. LL 
Ti in Trans. 
& 'amb., 58. 7. In Linnœæa, IX, 476. — MUNRO, In 
Gex We Linn. Soc., XXVI,126.— B.H.,  Linn. Soc., XXVI, 146, t. 6. — B.H., Gen. LE, 
"#1, n. 288. — Hack., Pflansen- 1212, n. 259. — HACK, Pflansenfam., 96. 
