270 HISTOIRE DES PLANTES. 
1-lateralibus, nunc confertis, sessilibus ; rhachilla sub floribus ple- 
rumque articulata et ultra flores nunc breviter producta!, (Orhis 
utriusque reg. calid.?) 
159. Cœlachyrum Hocusr. et N£es*. — Flores hermaphrodit 
in spiculis 3, 4; glumis brevibus concavis muticis membranaceis: 
extima Î-nervis; intima autem plerumque 3-nervis. Glumella extima 
conformis, 3-nervis ; intima autem subæqualis, 2-carinata. Stamina $; 
antheris linearibus breviusculis; loculis utrinque liberis. Glumelluke 
breves obtusæ. Styli 2, distincti graciles, superne papillosi. Fructus 
orbicularis, antice convexus, postice autem concavus. —Herba anni 
glabra; ramis prostratis v. adscendentibus; foliis brevibus latiuseulis 
planis; spicis in pedunculo communi paucis confertis subsessilibus; 
spiculis secundis, 2-seriatim distichis; rhachilla supra glumas demum 
articulata®. (India, Oriens, Africa bor.-or.*) 
160. Butbitis RArIx.5 — Flores diœci v. nune monæci"; spieulis 
dissimilibus. Masculi 2, 3-flori; glumis inæqualibus membranaceis 
muticis, 1-nervibus. Glumellæ lougiores latioresque: extima 3-nervi; 
intima autem paulo brevior, 2-nervis. Stamina 3. Gynæcei rudimet- 
tum 0. Floris fœminei in spicula solitarii glumæ basi in involueru 
connatæ Induratæ ; extima maxima dura, basi concava, apice 3-loba; 
lobis lateralibus minoribus; intima autem late convoluta, 2-nemis, 
genitalia includens, Styli distincti, apice elongati breviterque plu- 
mosi. Fructus ovoideus, a dorso compressiusculus, nunc poste 
Concavus, inclusus at liber. — Herba perennis, reptans el stolont- 
fera ; ramis breviter adscendentibus foliatis ; foliis planis anguslis; 
i ù Le nter 
SpiciS masculis in: summo pedunculo paucis confertis, brevilé 
1. Genus Wangenheimiæ afine: floribus in 3. In Linnœæa, XVI, 221. — Hocusre 
spicula numerosioribus, ad Eleusinen et Ca- (1855), 430. — HaAcKk., Pflansenfam., 5 Le 
priolam (NEEs) quoque accedens. 4. Genus Chlorideas cu Agrostideis 
+ Spec. ad 12. Jacu., Ecl. Gram.,t. 4(Eleu-  tuceis arcte connectens. __ Eleusit 
sine); Ic. rar., t. 22 (Cynosurus). — BEnru., 5. Spee. 1. C. brevifolium NEES- 
FI. austral., VII, 616; in Journ. Linn. Soc.,  brevifolia HocusT. et STEUD., erb. — 1 
XIX, 107. — Dœu, in Mart. FL. bras., I, IL, tis Cœlachyrum BenTu., in Hook. 160 
rs 26. — Tuure., in S.- Wats. Bot. Calif.,  — Boiss., FL. or., V, 584, n: rs (4819). 7 
» 292. — HEMSL., Bot. centr.-amer., III, 565. 6. In Journ. phys., LEXUS, S. Low 
— GRISEB., F1. bril. W-ind., 531. — Bar.,in  Buchloe ENGELM., in Trans. en I, 113 
N., Gram.mex., (1852), 432, t. 12, 14. — B. 2 
LL + B. K., Nov. gen. et spec., 1, 169,t.694  n. 193. — HACK., Pflansenfums © ; 
be Ft Gen. et spec., 4 (Chloris). — T., Gen. n.-amer., 1, 64 (n 
: pe + 40 (Cynosurus). — Pres, Rel. Hænk.,  lanthera Nurtr., herb. Bull xx, 
u k 7. PLARK, in Torr. Bot. Club ubks 
