POLLINIA. ANDROPOGONEJE- (AUCT. EDUARDO HACKEL). 163 
Racemi 3—10, conferti, secus rhacheos communis pilosulae nodos 
parum (inferiores 5—8 mm.) distantes solitarii v. oppositi, raro terni, 
simplices, erecto-patuli, graciles, 4—12 em. longi, spadicei, albopilosi ; 
articuli pedicellique spieula '/, breviores, filiformes, lineares, trigoni, 
marginibus pilis acerescentibus (summis articulo '/,—2-plo breviori- 
bus) dense eiliati, carina brevissime ciliati. Spiculæ sessiles cum callo 
0,6 mm. longo barba ipsum sequante cincto 3—4,5 mm. longs (pedi- 
cellatæ paullo breviores), oblongo-lanceolat:e, intense spadiceæ ; gluma 
I= chartacea, apice hyalino anguste truncata, integra vel carinis 
excurrentibus bimucronulata, carinis in '/, superiore setulis rigidis, in 
*/, inferioribus pilis mollibus albis erectis biseriatis (serie altera extus 
altera intus vergente), accrescentibus, summis glumam dimidiam 
æquantibus v. superantibus ciliatis ; II^ late oblonga, apice hyalino 
acutiuscula, obtuse carinata, tenuiter 1-nervis, marginibus ut I™ sed 
brevius ciliata ; III* lineari-oblonga, obtusiuscula, hyalina (basi colo- 
rata), enervis, marginibus non implicatis ciliata ; IV* quam II“ plus 
2-plo brevior, linearis, in lacinias subulato-lanceolatas fissa; arista - 
10—20 mm. longa, gracilis, columná castanea in medio v. etiam alibi 
flexuosa, subulam basi tortam flexuosamque zequante. Palea 0. Anthe- 
ræ 2,5 mm. longa. 
a, genuina. Spicule 4—4,5 mm. longze ; gluma I™ in depressione 
glabra, II^ carina glabra; arista 14-20 mm. longa. Variat ceterum 
magnitudine eulmi, foliorum, racemoru 
India orient. : Nepal (Wall. 8811, on 215, 234 ; h. berol.), Cal- 
eutta (ex Roxb.), Bombay (Roux) ; Chanda (Duthie) ; Ceylon (Thw. 
995); Khasia reg. trop. (Hook. f. et Thoms.); Celebes (Wichura h. ber.), 
Buru et Amboina (d'Urville), Queensland (ex Benth.). 
B, hexastachya. Spieule 3 mm. longe ; gluma I™ in depressione 
pilosula ; II“ carina pilosa ; arista cire. 10 mm. longa. — (Erianthus 
hexastachyus Hochst. in Hohenack. Pl. Ind. or. nr. 279., Andropogon 
hexastachyus Steud. Synops. 1, p. 380. 
Peninsula Ind. or. in territ. Canara pr. Mulki (Hohenacker. n. 279). 
10. P. Thwaitesii ; perennis ; culmis basi dense (subflabellatim) 
foliatis, vaginis inferioribus equitantibus ; innovationibus florendi tem- 
pore evolutis (foliis iis culmi zequantibus) ; aristæ columna secus Mu 
scabra intra glumas occulta subula triplo breviore. 
Culmi cire. 40 em. alti, robusti, 3-nodes, subcompressi, infra race- 
mos sericeo-pubescentes, simplieissimi, ad nodos subpruinosi. Vaginæ 
subeompress&, superiores arctze, inferiores ita aggregatze ut sese invi- 
