166 MONOCOTYLEDONEE. POLLINIA , 
carinis a basi ad ?/, pilis rigidulis subviolaceis biseriatis gluma 2—3- 
plo brevioribus ciliata, dein ad apicem usque aculeolato-ciliolata ; 
II? chartacea, obtusa, carina glaberrima, margine hyalino ciliolata ; 
III lineari-oblonga, obtusa, enervis, ciliolata; IV* quam II“ plus 
duplo brevior, obovato-oblonga, lobis acutis ciliolatis, inferne 3-ner- 
vis; arista 12—14 mm. longa gracilis, columna castanea recta glaber- 
rima subulam subconcolorem basi laxe grosseque tortam »quante; 
palea quam gluma sua paullo brevior, ovata, glabra. Antherz 3,5 mm. 
longa. ; 
India orient. : Simla et convalles (Hügel in h. Vind. 758). 
b. Chrysothrices. Articuli pedicelli spiculæque villis aureo-ferrugineis v. aureo- 
fulvis vesti i 
aminæ 
costa media tenuiter l-nervi percursæ. Gluma IIda 1-nervis, carinata ; 
a hyalina, glabra, inferne 3-nervis; arista gracilis. Styli stigmata 
linearia æquantes (n. 13— 
a. Gluma III2 deficiens. — Innovationes ee basi squamatz. Vagine inferiores 
internodia secum superiores iis paullo breviores. Ligula brevissima, truncata, 
membranacea, colorata, ciliolata v. glabra. soe sensim setaceo-acuminat®, patentes, 
nervis lateralibus non prominentibus, secundariis circ. 5"is confertis, pereurss. Gluma 
Im» chartaceo-membranacea, marginibus infra apicem inflexa, inferius involuta, dorso 
plana, a basi ad medium aureo-pilosa, tenuissime v. obsolete binervis : IIda chartaceo- 
membranacea, oblonga, truncata ; IV? lineari-cuneata, ex fissura aristata ; palea 
minutissima v. obsoleta. 
13. P. aurea (Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 19, p. 67) ; laminis 
lanceolato-linearibus, racemis 8—16 ; ariste subperfectæ columna 
intra glumas occulta quam subula 4—5-plo breviore. — Andropogon 
aureus Bory ! It. 1, p. 367, t. 21 (ex Kunth); Erianthus aureus Beauv. 
ap. Rem. et Schult. Syst. 2, p. 324; Saccharum aureum Spreng. 
Pug. 2, p. 17; Eulalia aurea Kunth! Révis. Gram. 1, p. 359, t. 93 ; 
Enum. 1, p. 480; 2, p. 389; Andropogon aureo-villosus Steud. Synops. 
1, p. 380. 
Culmi erecti v. ascendentes, 0,6—1 met. alti, robusti, multinodes, 
teretes, glaberrimi, striati. Vaginze arctæ, preter os longe denseque 
et margines superiores laxius ciliatos glaberrimze, imze squamiformes 
glabrz. Laminz e basi plus minus angustata rotundata lanceolato- 
lineares, 15—30 cm. longz, 6—12 mm. lat, glaucescentes, glaberri- 
mæ (margineque), nervis primariis utrinque 5—6 percurse. 
 fascieulati; primarii secus rhacheos communis villosule nodos 6— 
