146 MONOCOTYLEDONEÆ. ERIANTHUS. 
inflexa flexuris glaberrimis, præter nervos earinales non percurrentes 
medio tenuissimo brevi notata ; II^ hyalino-membranacea, obtusius- 
eula, 1-nervis, carina scaberula ; III* lanceolata, acuta, enervis, obso- 
lete eiliolata; IV* quam II“ '/, brevior, linearis, acute bidentata, 
superne ciliolata ; arista 14—20 mm. longa gracillima. Palea glumä 
suä 4-plo brevior, ovalis, obtusa, ciliolata. Lodieule glabrze. Antherze 
2,5 mm. longs. Styli stigmatibus paullo breviores. Spieule pedicel- 
late gluma I^ in '/, inferiore marginis pilis gluma 2—3-plo breviori- 
bus ciliata ; reliqua ut in sessilibus. 
In Himalay boreali-oceidentalis regione tropica (J. Hooker et 
Thomson h. Ind.; vidi in h. berol.). 
14. E. filifolius (Nees! ap. Steud. Synops. 1, p. 409); laminis 
semicylindrieis junceis diametro 1 mm. ; spiculis lanceolatis rufescen- 
tibus, pedicellatarum gluma I™ 6—7-nervi. — Saccharum filifolium 
Steud. 1. c. 
Innovationes extravaginales. Culmi infra paniculam pubescentes, 
ceterum glaberrimi. Vagin® przeter nodos pubescentes glaberrim:e. 
Ligula oblonga, 1,5—2 mm. longa, membranacea, obtusa, ciliolata. 
Lamin® 20—30 em. longæ, sensim in acumen capillare attenuat:e, 
subtus convex® supra planiuscul®, ibique albs viridi-marginatze, 
rigidissim:e, glaberrim:ze, inferne ad ipsam costam mediam redact:e. 
Panieula..... (in specimine incompleto manca); racemi (ex Neesio) 
fasciculati (ex autopsia) sessiles, circ. 4 em. longi, 6-articulati ; arti- 
culi pedicellique spieulam dimidiam v. integram »quantes, lineari- 
subelavati, crassiusculi, dorso obtuse carinati, carina marginibusque 
pilis albis articulum zequantibus v. superantibus ciliati. Spieule ses- 
siles 6 mm. longæ, villos involucrantes albos densos inzequales subsu- 
perantes; gluma Į" membranacea, acuta, minutissime bidentula, 
marginibus laxe inflexa, flexuris scabris, przeter nervos carinales duo- 
bus intracarinalibus brevibus atque uno utrinque extracarinali per- 
cursa ; II“ similis, carina lvi, preter carinam utrinque tenuissime - 
uninervis; III: lanceolata, minutissime bimucronata, sub-2-nervis, 
marginibus implicatis ciliata; IV® quam II“ paullo brevior, lineari- 
lanceolata, acuta, uninervis, glabra, ex ipso apice aristam exserens 
12—15 mm. longam. Palea quam gluma II^ subduplo brevior, lan- 
ceolata, acutiuscula, glabra. Lodieule glabre. Anthere 2,5 mm. 
longze. Styli stigmatibus duplo breviores. Spiculz pedicellatze ut ses- - 2 
siles nisi gluma P" in '/, inferiore versus margines pilis gluma duplo 
brevioribus obsita, nervis 2 carinalibus pereurrentibus, uno utrinque — - 
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