142 MONOCOTYLEDONER. ERIANTHUS. 
parce eano-villosi ; articuli pedicellique spicula (hi 3—4-plo, illi !/,— 
3-plo) breviores, lineari-filiformes, dorso convexo leves, marginibus 
pilis canescentibus mollibus articulum subzquantibus laxe ciliati. 
Spiculz sessiles villos involuerantes densos '/, v. parum superantes, 
5 mm. longze, e viridi et sordide violaceo variegat® ; gluma I™ char- 
tacea, apice membranaceo obtusissima v. obtusa, integra v. emargi- 
nato-bidentula, margine laxe inflexa, flexuris scabris, partibus inflexis 
superne breviter pilosis, dorso plano glaberrima, pr&ter nervos cari- 
nales manifestius v. obsoletius binervis, nervis brevioribus; IHI% 
oblonga, chartacea, apice membranaceo obtusa v. acutiuscula, 3- 
nervis, carina scabra, dorso ceterum glaberrima, margine hyalino 
superne ciliolata ; III: I^» subzequans, oblonga, membranacea, obtusa, 
interdum mucronulata, 1—3-nervis, superne ciliata ; IV* III” zequans, 
lanceolata, acuta, plerumque glabra, sub-3-nervis, ex apice aristam 
spicula breviorem (2—5 mm. longam) plerumque paullo exsertam 
emittens. Palea quam gluma paullo brevior, lineari-lanceolata, sepe 
bifida, glabra. Lodieule glabrz. Antherze 3 mm. longs. Styli stig- 
mata subsuperantes. Spiculæ pedicellatze ut sessiles nisi gluma I"* 
5-nervis, nervis anastomosantibus, ad partes implicatas longius pilosa. 
In Hungaria australi (Slavonia, Banatus), Serbia orientali, agro 
Byzantino, Dalmatia, Montenegro, monte Athoé (Friedrichsth. in h. 
vind.), Lydia (Balansa 16), Cilicia, Syria boreali, Antiochia. (De sta- 
tionibus collectoribusque cfr. Boiss. Fl. Or. 5, p. 455.) 
Obs. Saccharum obscurum Trin. Mem. Ac. Petersb. ser. 6, vol. 2, 
p.313 brevissime descriptum mihi ignotum dubiumque, a simili S. 
strieto differt « lana alba non colorata, panicula lucidiori, foliis an- 
gustioribus. » En descriptionem : « Articuli pedicellique nudi ; glumze 
acutiuscule glabra, lanà involuerante sublongiores; arista rectius- 
cula longitudine spiculæ ; folia anguste linearia, inferiora subinvoluta. 
Patria ignota » (Ex herb. Acad. Petrop.). 
* * Arista spieulä 2—4-plo longior (12—24 mm. longa). (Spec. 10—15.) 
t Spicule 5—7 mm. longe villos involuerantes cire. squantes (rarius 1/4 brevior v. paullo longiores). — 
Gluma II** marginibus hyalinis ciliolata, HI* et IV* hyalinz. (Spec. 10—44.) 
o Lamine lineari-lanceolatz v. lanceolato-lineares, 1—3 cm. late. — Ligula ovato-rotundata 2—3 m 
ga, subfusco-membranacea, demum laciniata. aliata. Lamine m a M vix v. parum po 
tinciæ, setaceo-acuminat®, em. long®, ri rigidule ulg, , erectæ, glau e serrulato-scaher— 
ee = re - prominentibus, Gluma I ** chartacea, rimara peia 'albo-membranacee ; : 
€ cea, 3-ue ~a quam I^* paullo brevior, enervis, ciliata ; iv: d 
linearis, ciliata. Lodiculz glabra. (Sped. 10—11.) ya ÁN 
10. E. Hookeri; ge T™ integra in '/, inferiore dense albovil- 
losa. 
