ERIANTHUS, — ANDROPOGONEJE (Avor. EDUARDO HACKEL). 133 
tatze mixtze). Glum& I—IV" eiliolatze. Arista glumse IV**10—15 mm. 
longa (spieula duplo longior). Stamina interdum 3. 
In Brasilia merid. (cfr. Fl. bras. 1. c.) et Paraguay (Balansa 298 
ex p.). 
2. E. Balansze ; spiculis omnibus przter callum dorso pilosis : 
sessilium gluma I»: coriacea 6—8-nervis, II“ 5-nervi, III* chartacea, 
5-nervi, pedicellatarum gluma I et II^ 5—7-nervi. 
Culmi circ. 1 met. alti, graciliores, 4-nodes, superne longe nudi, 
infra paniculam nodosque sericeo-pubescentes. Vagin® plus minus 
pubescentes, scabrze, nodis barbatis, imæ emortu:e flabellatim aggre- 
gate. Ligula ovato-rotundata 1—2 mm. longa, membranacea, glabra. 
Lamin: e basi valde angustata (vaginà multo angustiore) lineares, 
acuminate, 20—30 em. longs, 6—8 mm. late, utrinque molliter 
- cano-pubescentes (pilis basi incrassatis). Panicula circ. 18 em. longa ; 
racemi 4—6 cm. longi, crassi, 8—10-articulati, niveo-villosi ; articuli 
pedicellique spicula '/,—'/, breviores, crassi, clavati, dorso convexo 
toto marginibusque a basi ad apicem usque pilis mollibus albis aceres- 
centibus, summis articulum subzquantibus dense villosi. Spiculæ 
lineari-lanceolatze, 8 mm. longs, villos involuerantes ipsa basi pur- 
pureos ceterum niveos densos »quantes, sordide ; sessilium gluma 
I": sensim e '/, inferiore acutata, acute bidentula, marginibus su- 
perne inflexis inferne involutis, in parte superiore dorsi plani versus 
margines pilis decrescentibus ad apicem fastigiatis obsita, ceterum 
glaberrima, violaceo-puneticulata ; II^ coriacea, lanceolata, acumi- 
nata, in '/, superiore carinata, carina scabra, ceterum dorso subro- 
tundata, prater margines superne hyalinos ciliolatos glabra, nervis 
5 manifestis percursa; II: I»*^ subsequans, late lanceolata, acumi- 
nata, marginibus hyalinis superne ciliata, sepius paleam anguste 
linearem '/, breviorem, nullum vero florem fovens ; IV* quam II^ '/, 
brevior, linearis, hyalino-membranacea, in */, superiore fissa, laciniis 
acutis ciliatis, 3-nervis, aristam spicula duplo v. plus longiorem (16— 
19 mm. longam) imperfectam rectam v. laxissime flexuosam viola- 
ceam emittens ; palea quam gluma sua paullo brevior, linearis, acuta, 
ciliata. Lodieule glabri, purpurascentes. Antherz 2 mm. longe. 
Stigmata stylos zquantia. Pedicellatarum gluma P densius, II^ in 
carinz parte superiore pilosa ; III sine palea. 
Paraguay : in uliginosis pr. Caaguaza, Balansa 301. 
-. 8. E. asper (Nees! Agrostol. brasil., p. 315); spieulis omnibus 
