140 MONOCOTYLEDONEJE. ERIANTHUS. 
villosa, rhachi communi scaberula ; rami anthesi patuli, primarii ad 
singulos nodos singuli v. oppositi, inferiores 10—20 cm. longi, a basi 
ramulosi, ramulis 2—3*'* inzequalibus, inferioribus basi nudis, superio- 
ribus a basi spiculiferis, interdum in tertium gradum ramificatis, 
ramificationibus omnibus excepta basi incrassata in axilla barbata 
glabris, scabris. Racemi breves (1—2 em. longi), 3—5 mm. lati, 
lineari-oblongi v. oblongi, ramis subappressi, basi interdum ramulo 
brevissimo (1—2-articulato) aucti ; articuli pedicellique spicula duplo 
breviores, lineares, filiformes, apice subdilatati, dorso obtuse carinati, 
carina marginibusque pilis mollibus accrescentibus, summis articulo 
subduplo longioribus densiuscule ciliati. Spiculæ sessiles 4—6 mm. 
longa, acuminato-lanceolat®, villos involucrantes zequantes; gluma 
` Te: membranacea, acuminata, insqualiter bidentula, altero margine 
anguste inflexa, altero plano v. infra apicem tantum inflexa, flexuris 
scaberrimis, dorso plano glaberrima, praeter nervos carinales virides 
enervis v. nervis 1—2 brevibus percursa; II“ lanceolata, acuminata 
v. acuta, mucronulata, carina scabra, marginibus hyalinis ciliolata ; 
II membranaceo-hyalina, quam I^ '/, brevior, lanceolata, acuta, 
ssepe mucronulata, 1-nervis, margine hyalino ciliata ; IV* ut II, sed 
paullo brevior, 3-nervis, glabra v. ciliolata ; arista apicalis 3—6 mm. 
longa (spieulam zquans v. paullo longior v. brevior). Palea glumä 
' , brevior, ovato-lanceolata, glabra. Lodieule glabrz. Anthere 2— 
2,5 mm. longe. Styli stigmata æquantes. Spicul® pedicellat® ut ses- 
siles, nisi pilis densioribus involucratz, gluma I": valide 2—3-nervi et 
ssepe nervulis 2 aucta, in '/,—'/, inferiore pilis mollibus glumam 
squantibus praesertim versus margines obsita, superne ad nervos 
scabra ; II“ simili modo villosa, longiuscule mucronata. 
Pabveritetos sequentes propter characteres mixtos sepe ægre dis- 
tinguen 
b BEER Spicule 5—6 mm. longs, sepius pallidze, lana invo- 
luerante candida. Gluma LP" longius acuminata, IV: plerumque 
glabra. 
In regione mediterranea : Hispania merid. (ad subv. 2 vergens), 
Gallia austr., Italia tota (presertim orientalis), Istria (Reichb. Fl. 
exsiec. 908), Dalmatia, Grecia, Candia, Algeria (pr. Oran et Biskra). 
2. purpurascens. Spieule 3,5—4 mm. longs, ex toto v. superne 
purpurascentes v. violascentes, lana involucrante einerascente. Gluma 
I": brevius acuminata, IV* plerumque ciliolata. — Er. purpurascens 
Anderss. ! l. c. p. 161. 
India orient. ad Belaspur (Hügel in h. Vind.), Pandschab (Hook. f.), 
