156 MONOCOTYLEDONEJE. POLLINIA . 
tam flexuosam 5—6 mm. longam emittens, juxta carinam utrinque 
pilosa; III" quam II® 3-plo brevior, late ovata, acutiuscula, enervis, 
glabra; IV» II? subzquans, chartacea, hyalino-marginata, 3-nervis, 
arista valida spicula decies v. plus longior, colummä atro-fusca medio 
geniculata secus spiras pilis 2 mm. longis albis barbata subulam fla- 
vam rectam sequante. Anthere 1 mm. longe. Caryopsis lineari- 
oblonga, embryone ?/, caryopseos longitudinis zequante. 
Australia : Queensland (cfr. Benth., 
Var. myriantha Benth., 1. e. p. 526. « Racemi circ. 20", spiculæ 
minute, aristis brevioribus tenuioribus. » Austr. sept. Arnhem’s 
Land. (n. v.). 
b. Spiculze pallide virescentes. 
3. P. pallens.— Ligula brevissima, marginiformis, membranacea, 
minute ciliolata. Laminz e basi »quilata a vagina non distincta 
anguste lineares, 15—25 cm. longs, 1,5—2,5 mm. late, subtus gla- 
berrimze, supra villos®, margine scaberulze, costa media a nervis late- 
ralibus non distincta, quorum utrinque duo primarii interjectis singulis 
secundariis tertianisque; primarii secundariique supra prominentes. 
Racemi quini, 6—7 cm. longi, secus rhacheos communis villosulae 
nodos 5—6 mm. distantes alterni, simplices, excepto terminali sessiles, 
ereeti, subgraciles, albo-v. canescenti-pilosi; rhacheos subfragilis 
articuli pedicellique spicula duplo breviores, lineari-filiformes, sub- 
oblique disjungentes, marginibus pilis canescentibus acerescentibus 
(summis articulo '/, brevioribus), dense ciliati. Spiculze sessiles lanceo- 
latze, 4 mm. longc, callo brevissimo obtuso breviter parceque barbu- 
lato ; gluma I^ membranacea, a medio acuminato-acutata, ipso apice 
angustissime truneatula, obsolete bimucronulata, marginibus inflexis, 
flexuris dorsoque subdepresso pilis canescentibus ipsa duplo v.'/, bre- 
vioribus dense vestita, preter flexuras valide nervosas enervis; 
II lanceolata, acutiuscula, carinata, carina superne ciliata, aristam 
ipsa paullo breviorem patulam emittens, margine hyalino ciliata; 
H quam I^ ’/, brevior, oblonga, obtusa, enervis, ciliata; IV’ quam 
. Il? '/, brevior, linearis, hyalina, glabra, in '/, superiore in lobos 
2 obtusas fissa, inferne 3-nervis; arista gracilis 9—11 mm. longa 
- columná castanea rectiuscula secus spiras ciliolata quam subula flava 
basi laxe grosseque torta subduplo breviore. Palea quam gluma III 
duplo brevior, ovalis, obtusa, glabra. Antherz 2,5 mm. longae. Styli 
stigmatibus linearibus subduplo breviores. 
