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glabra; IV* nulla; palea quam gluma II? subduplo brevior, latissime 
ovalis, apice subpilifera, circa ovarium voluta (cfr. notam ad I. bra- 
siliensem). Stamen 1, anthera 1 mm. longa. Styli stigmata 1 mm. 
longa atropurpurea superantes. 
In Peruvia prope Lima (Gaudich. in h. ber., Barranca in h. vind.). 
Omnium specierum habitu charaeteribusque distinetissima. 
III. MISCANTHUS. N. J. Andersson in (Efvers. k. Vet. Akad. 
Förhandl. Stockh. 1855, p. 165. — Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. 3, 
p. 1125 ex p. — Eulalia Trin. in Mém. Acad. Petersb. ser. 6, vol. 2, 
p. 332 ex parte; Munro in Benth. Fl. Hongk., p. 420, non Kunth. 
Racemi subcompositi corymbosi v. panieulati, sessiles v. primarii 
peduneulati, multispieulati, rhachi prorsus inarticulata tenacissima. 
Spiculze ad quemvis rhacheos nodum binz, primaria longius, secun- 
daria brevius pedicellata, utraque uniflora, 8, aristata v. rarissime 
mutica, a dorso leviter compressa, demum a pedicello soluta. Glumæ 
2 exteriores chartaces v. chartaceo-membranacez, mutic® ; I^^ mar- 
ginibus angustissime laxeque v. obsolete inflexa, plerumque pari- 
(2—4-) nervis, II“ 1—3-v.—35-nervis; II hyalina, vacua ; IV* hya- 
lina, apice bidentata, inter dentes aristam sapissime imperfectam 
rarius columna brevissima instructam exserens, rarissime integra, ` 
mutiea. Palea quam gluma IV* plus minus brevior, angusta, hya- 
lina, enervis, interdum minuta. Lodieule cuneat®, apice excisæ, gla- 
br&. Stamina 2 v. 3. Caryopsis oblonga, ventre planiuscula, dorso 
(facie embryonali) convexula, embryone caryopseos dimidiam longitu- 
dinem æquante. 
Gramina perennia, elata sæpe arundinacea, orbis antiqui presertim 
Asiæ orientalis et Himalay:e, foliis elongatis pro magnitudine angustis, 
panicula sæpius flabelliformi v. corymbiformi, multiramea, spiculis e 
callo plerumque longe villosis insignia. — Culmi erecti, farcti, stria- 
tuli, apice breviter v. minime nudi, simplices. Vagin® arctæ. Laminze 
e basi plus minus angustata lineares v. lineari-lanceolatæ, setaceo- 
acuminatz, summa haud ita abbreviata, vernatione convolutz, 
adulte plane v. aperte canalieulatz. Racemi multispieulati, rhachi 
glabra; pedicelli glabri. Gluma I" callo brevissimo, obtuso, villis 
spiculam quasi involucrantibus tecto. | 
