324 HISTOIRE DES PLANTES. 
altero in spicula sessili hermaphrodito; altero autem ad glumellam 
hyalinam redacto. Glumæ 2 : extima sessilis coriacea acuminala, 
extus tuberculato-aculeata, basi in semiannulum transversum di 
tata; mtima autem carinata; carina aculeata. Glumellæ floris fertils 
hyalinæ. Glumellulæ 2. — Herbæ elatæ; foliis amplis lineari-elon- 
gatis costatis; vagina late involuta; spiculis in paniculam amplam 
longe pedunculatam dispositis; ramis inter paria spicularum artieu- 
latis compressis; spicula altera sessili ; altera autem laterali, au 
imperfecla, aut florem alterum masculum fovente; pedicello com- 
presso. (4/frica trop. occid.1) 
282. Vossia WALL. et GRIFF.2 — Flores (fere Manisuridis) m 
spicula 2 : inferior masculus; superior autem hermaphroditus. 
Glumæ 2: extima planiuscula coriacea in caudam longam repenle 
abiens rhacheosque fossam postice aperlam superans; intima aulem 
charlacea, superne carinata. Glumellæ 2 : extima hyalina impart- 
nervis; intima autem byalina, 2-nervis. Glumellulæ magnæ cuneat, 
sub-2-cornes. Stamina 3. Styli distincti 2, apice lineares breves, 
intra glumellas erecti nec exserti. — Stirps aquatiqua arundinaceà; 
folus planis; racemis in summo culmo 2-nis v. digitatis sessilibus 
Compressis; rhacheos flexuosæ articulis curvulis, recte disjungen- 
übus; cicatrice post disjunetionem apicali semiorbiculart conca- 
viuscula®, (India, Africa trop.4) 
283. Urelytrum Hack.5 — Flores fere Manisuridis; racemis il 
summo culmo solitariis subcompositis subcylindricis. Spieulæ ad 
nodum quemvis 2-næ; alterius pedicellati floribus 2, maseulis Y 
neutris. Glumæ 2: extima coriacea, dorso planiuscula v. subconvexi, 
apice in aristam longam subulatam patentem abens; intima autel 
chartacea mutica, acute carinata. Glumellulæ anguste cunealæ. St 
lineares exserti. — Herbæ robustæ perennes ; culmis simplieibus 
robustis teretibus, superne longe nudis; foliis linearibus, basi M 
latis planis ; rhacheos fragilis articulis obliquissime disjungentibus € 
: Wat 
2. HACk., Andropog., 216 Rhy- 4. Spec. 1. V. cuspidata. — V. pre XAIS, 
ind 
1. Spec. ( 
lachnis subgen. 2); in Bol. Soc. Brot. (1884), et GRIFF. — GRANT, in Trans. Lian Pre nd. 
196, 1. 2, fig. 2 (Rottbællia). t. 116. — Zschæmum cuspidatum 
En jour. Asiat. Soc. bengal., V, 512, ed. Car. 1, 324. Species asia 
tica exstat altera, 
L 2%.—B. H., Gen.,Ill, 1131, n. 89 ( 1890), 109: 
- Gen., IT, » N.69 (part.). — ex BAL., in Journ. Mor. ( ’ nt ht 
. Pflansenfam., 95 ; Andropog., 269. 5. Pflansenfam., 25; Andropo9-; ; 
+ Genus Dactylodem nonnihil referens. fig. 15: 
