ERIANTHUS. — ANDROPOGONEJE (AUCT. EDUARDO HACKEL). 149 
tenui-filiformes, soluti apice subobliqui, superiores utrinque parce 
breviterque ciliati, inferiores ssepe glabri, omnes dorso convexo scabri. 
Rarius rhachis subtenax, spieule tum omnes pedicellatz, pedicelli spi- 
cula multoties—triplo breviores, rhachis ad pedicellorum ortum lon- 
giuscule barbata. Spiculæ sessiles 5,5—7 mm. longs, lineari-lanceo- 
late, rufeseendo-brunnex ; gluma I» eoriaceo-chartacea, acuta, acute 
bidentata, inter dentes interdum mueronulo aucta, pilis gluma 3—4-plo 
. brevioribus dense tecta, in '/, superiore scabra ; III lineari-lanceolata, 
membranacea, dilute rufescens, acutiuscula, obsolete 3-nervis; IV» 
acutissime biloba, superne longe ciliata; arista 5—6 mm. longa (spi- 
culam subzquans). Antherz 3,5 mm. longs. Spieuls pedicellatze ut 
sessiles nisi gluma I"* manifestius nervosa, cum Hè altius pilosa. 
a. genuinus. Spieule aliæ omnino sessiles, cum rhacheos articulo 
aceumbente demum solut& v. raro ab integra rhachi solubiles, aliæ 
pedicellatze. Panicula laxa, ramo imo ejus dimidium æquante. 
In terre Capensis vallibus a 200 ad 1600 met. altitud.(Drége 800, etc.) 
B. brevipes (E. Sorghum f angustifolius Nees l. c., p. 94); spieulse 
alix: breviter v. brevissime pedicellatæ v. subsessiles, alie longius 
pedicellate, omnes a rhachi tenaci solubiles. Panieula densiuscula, 
ramo imo ejus '/, :equante. 
In terra Capensi (Drege ubi? sine nro.); Plettenberg-Bai (Mundt. 
in h. ber.); in terra Caffrorum (Drege). 
Obs. In ipso specimine typico a cl. Neesio insignito (Drege 800) 
inveniuntur et spieule secundari sessiles cum rhacheos articulo dis- 
jungentes, et alie brevissime v. obsolete pedicellatze ab intacta rhachi 
solubiles. 
17. E. Capensis (Nees! Fl. Afr. austr., p. 93); culmo infra vagi- 
- næ nodos glabros v. puberulos glaberrimo ; laminis late linearibus 
subtus levibus supra nervis vix prominulis notata; panicule dense 
rhachi ramisque (etiam in axillis) glaberrimis, his basi verticillos 
spurios multiradiatos formantibus ; spieulis aliis brevius aliis longius 
pedicellatis oblongis, a basi ad '/, usque laxe patuleque pilosis. — 
Saccharum capense Steud. Synops. 1, p. 408; Miscanthus capensis 
Anderss. in (Efvers. K. Vet. Akad. Förhandl. Stockh., 1855, p. 165. 
— Culmi ultra 1 met. alti, robusti, infra paniculam leviter pubescentes, 
ceterum glaberrimi. Vaginæ glaberrimz v. inferiores parce hirtulze. 
- Lamins e basi angustata latius lineares, 40—60 em. longe, 8—12 mm. 
late, preter basin intus barbatam glabre, utrinque læves, margine 
scabr& v. læviusculæ, costa media crassissima notatz, nervis latera- 
