250 HISTOIRE DES PLANTES. 
læ 1,2, vacuæ, acutæ v. mucronulatæ, 3-nerves. Glumellæ 9 : extima 
5-7-nervis, dorso subcarinata ; intima autem 2-carinata; carinis mar- 
ginibusque ciliatis. Glumellulæ 3, obovato-ellipticæ, sæpe inæquales, 
integræ. Stamina 3, libera. Germen ovoideo-oblongum subsessile; 
stylis liberis 2, apice plumosis. — Herba perennis ; rhizomate subhy- 
pogæo ; ramis aeriis 2-morphis; alteris aphyllis, crebre transversi 
septalis, passim ad nodos apicales florigeris, sæpius sterilibus; aliens 
autem foliferis; foliis anguste lanceolato-acuminatis; inflorescenli 
ampla; ramis œ, subfasciculatis arcuatis ; ramulis ulümis spiculigeris 
in axilla bracteæ scariosæ numero variis; spiculis in quoque pauti 
dissitis sessilibus; ramulo quoque bractea et bracteola 2-carinala sl 
pato; rhachilla elongata glabra, sub floribus articulata et sæpe ullra 
eos producta apiceque glumelligera. (Brasilia ‘.) 
415. Arthrostylidium Rupr.? — Fiores in spicula &, herma- 
phroditi, v. summus imperfectus. Glumie paucæ vacuæ imbricatæ, a 
extima gradatim majores, membranaceæ v. corlaceæ muticæ, cer 
ves. Glumella extima similis imparinervis; intima autem subinelust 
angustior, 2-carinata. Glumellulæ 3, lanceolatæ v. obovalæ ; postica 
nunc breviore. Stamina 3 ; antherarum loculis basi discretis. Gerimél 
glabrum; stylo apice 2-fido ; ramis papillosis v. plumosis. Fructis 
oblongus, inelusus at liber. — Arbores v. frutices, nuncC scandentes: 
foliis petiolatis, cum vagina articulatis; paniculis nune Dasi pe 
nunc ad nodos dense fasciculatis, plus minus ramosis; rhacht 6 
pressa ; spiculis utrinque ramulo insertis, sessilibus v. pedicellats 
rhachilla sub floribus articulata. (America trop.) 
Ce: LA 
à 18 2: 
116. Microcalamus Franca.# — Flores polygami Im vi 
superiore hermaphrodito: inferiore autem maseulo Y: Hi 
Glumæ 92, ovatæ concavæ ciliolatæ mucronulatæ; exumä soi 
intima majore, 5-nervi. Glumellæ 9 : extima in flore hermäp 
jo] h: #4 o ovalo 
rigide chartacea, obscure 5-nervis ; in flore masculo v: neulr nel 
lanceolata, 7-nervis, conspicue carinata. Glumella inti* aps 
tenuiter membranacea hyalina, apice fimbriala; Caïn 2, 
ml. 
; . se 
1. Spec. 1. G. mirabile FRANCH. 93. — Aulonemia GOUD in Ann 
* 2. In Mém. Acad. Pétersb., sér. 6, V, 117, sér. 3, V, 75, t. À. à rt Pt pres 
a ss ENDL., Gen., n. 9041, -— Munro, in 3. Spec. ad 12. DœLr, in MOT 
: Linn. Soc., XXVI, 39, t. 4. — B. H., II, 172, t. 47. sylosr: 
Gen., 1, 1208, n. 278. — Hack., Pflanzenfam., 4. In Journ, Mor. (1889), 28 ‘* : 
