ERIANTHUS. — ANDROPOGONEJE (AUCT. EDUARDO HACKEL). 147 
extracarinali binisque v. ternis intracarinalibus in '/, superiore desi- 
nentibus et anastomosantibus notata. 
India orient. : Nepal, Royle 207 (h. berol.). 
tt Spicule 2,5—3,5 mm, longe, villis involucrantibus 3—4-plo breviores. 
15. E. fulvus (Nees! ap. Steud. Synops. 1, p. 409); E. rutipilus 
Griseb. in Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Geetting., 1868, p. 93 ; Sacch. rufipilum 
Steud. Synops l. c. 
Culmi 1—2 met. alti, robusti, plurinodes, superne breviter nudi 
ibique apresse sericeo-villosi. Vaginze versus margines pilosæ, nodis 
pubescentibus. Ligula rotundato-truncata, 1—2 mm. longa, fusco- 
membracea, longe ciliata. Lamine e basi subangustata lineares, 
setaceo-acuminat®, 30—70 cm. longie, 8—16 mm. late, plans, 
rigidæ, excepta basi puberula glabrze, subtus glauc® scaberulze, supra 
virides leves, margine scaberrim&, costa media crassa v. tenuiori 
percursa, nervis lateralibus primariis utrinque 4—6 subprominentibus, 
secundariisque inter illos quinis valde eonfertis vix prominulis notata. 
Panicula erecta, strieta, lineari-oblonga, 20—25 em. longa, densissima, 
primo violascenti-dein fulvo-lanata, decomposita, rhachi communi 
villosa; rami primarii solitarii breves (—7 cm. longi), sed secus 
rhacheos communis internodia 5—8 mm. longa creberrimi, basi villosa 
brevissime nudi, valde ramulosi, ramulis inferioribus binis superioribus 
singulis, ramulos tertianos confertos gignentibus. Racemi 2—3 em. 
longi, 8—10-articulati, crassiuseuli ; articuli pedicellique spiculz 
*/, v. */, æquantes, tenui-filiformes, sursum subdilatati, marginibus 
pilis mollissimis acerescentibus (summis articulum subduplo superan- 
tibus) laxe villosi. Spicula sessiles lanceolatze, brunnescentes, superne 
alb: ; gluma I™ chartaceo-membranacea, apice hyalino abrupte acu- 
minata, integra, marginibus non v. infra apicem tantum leviter inflexa 
ibique scaberula, dorso plano glaberrima, binervis v. nervo utrinque 
exteriori brevi aucta, nervis apicem non attingentibus; II“ I» subsu- 
perans, ei similis, mueronulata, inferne membranacea, superne hya- 
lina, carina levis, 3-nervis, undique glaberrima, v. superne ciliolata ; 
III* I» æquans, lienari-lanceolata, acuta, ciliolata; IV* quam II“ 
2—3-plo brevior, ovato-lanceolata, 1-nervis, glabra, ex apice aristam 
exserens capillarem 10—14 mm. longam. Palea glumam IV*» aequans, 
. ovata, acuta, ciliata. Lodieule glabrze. Antheræ 1 mm. longe. Styli 
stigmatibus anguste linearibus '/,—2-plo breviores. Spiculæ pedicel- 
late ut sessiles, nisi gluma I" versus margines pilis parcis glumä 
brevioribus obsita. 
