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acutiuscule, II^ mutica; HI primam subsuperans, membranacea, 
glabra ; IV* II subzquans, lineari-lanceolata; palea duplo brevior, 
anguste lanceolata. Folia perfecta non vidi. (S. insulare Anderss. 1. f 
p. 157 quoad specim. luzonica.) 
Luzon (Chamisso in h. ber.). 
b. Gluma Ima præter pilos e callo ortos spicula 3—4-plo breviores dorso plus 
minus longe villosa. Gluma IV? late lanceolata, mucronata. — Culmi 
multinodes, nodisque glaberrimi.Vaginze Pues v.superne scaberulze 
v. ore barbatz. Laminæ inferne erectæ, glauc®. Paniculæ rhachis glabra, 
angulis scaberula. Gluma Ima chartacea, integra, marginibus laxe inflexa, 
flexuris superne scabris ; Ida chartacea, lanceolata, navicularis, carina 
scabra, 3-nervis (lacubus interdum insconspicuis); Ia quam Ima 
ae, brevior, acuta v. obtusiuscula, hyalino-membranacea, margi- 
nibus hyalinis ciliata, 3-nervis; IVe IITam zequans v. subzequans, hyalina, 
elliptico-lanceolata, acuta, mucronata, 1—3-nervis, plus minus ciliata; 
palea 2—3-plo brevior, ovata v. ovalis, obtusa v. acutiuscula interdum 
denticulata, apice ciliolata. Lodicule parvule, glabrze. Spiculæ pedicel- 
late gluma Ima et IIda manifestius nervose, densius lanatæ. 
3. S. arundinaceum (Retz.! Obs. 4, p. 14 (ampl.)) ; laminis late 
lanceolato-linearibus, 2—3 cent. latis, costa media inferne diametro 
laminis multoties angustiore percursis, nervis lateralibus non promi- 
nentibus utrinque 7—9, interjectis seeundariis 7—9-nis, panicula canes- 
centi-villosa, articulis spiculam plerumque tibus, margine laxe 
ciliatis. — S. bengalense Retz. Obs. 5. p- 16; ?, S. procerum Roxb. 
Fl. ind. ed. Carey 1, p. 243; S. exaltatum "n 1. yd p. 245? 
Culmi 2—6 m. alti. Ligula brevissima, paraboli dens, fusces- 
cendo-membranacea, ciliolata et pilis ipsa koh die longioribus dense 
stipata. Laminæ basi subangustatz, 1—2 m. long, plan, rigidze, gla- 
brz, utrinque leves. Panicula erecta, oblonga, 30—90 em. longa, 
densa, anthesi patens, dein contracta, subgriseo-villosa, decomposita 
v. supradecomposita ; rami primarii oppositi v. quaterni, cum secun- 
dariis tertianisque ex eorum basi enascentibus verticillati, superius 
quoque ramulos secundarios alternos, hi tertianos (qui raro et quar- 
tanos gignunt) procreantes, omnes filiformes, glabri, angulis scabe- 
ruli. Racemi sessiles, 3—5 cm. longi, graciles, 4— 10-articulati, laxi- 
flori; rhacheos fragilis articuli tenui-filiformes, apice subincrassati, 
margine et sepe carina dorsali pilis acerescentibus patulis, summis 
articulo brevioribus, laxe ciliati ; pedicelli similes, sed spieulä breviores. 
Spicule sessiles lineari-lanceolatz 3,5—4 mm. longe, pallide virides 
v. livide diluteque violaceo-suffus& v. apice rufescentes; gluma I bre- 
: viter acuminata, dorso plano v. leviter impresso a basi ad '/, v. z^ 
