POLLINIA. ANDROPOGONE.E (AUCT. EDUARDO HACKEL). 167 
8 mm. distantes alterni, simplices v. sepissime a basi divisi, secun- 
darii 2—5" simili modi secus primarios alterni, 4—8 cm. longi, 
robusti; articuli pedicellique spiculæ */, subzequantes, lineares, superne 
subdilatati, difficile et oblique disjungentes, dorso carinati, carina 
marginibusque pilis rigidulis aecrescentibus (summis articulo sublon- 
gioribus) dense vestiti. Spieule sessiles cum callo lineari-oblongo 
0,8 mm. longo basi barba ipsum duplo superante eineto 5 mm. long, 
lineari-oblong&, spadicez v. rufescentes; gluma I»: latiuseule trun- 
cata, erosula, a basi ad medium usque pilis acerescentibus rigidulis 
(summis gluma 1'/,—2-plo longioribus) vestita dein versus apicem 
glabra, ipso apice brevius ciliata; II^ late truncata, carina ultra 
medium usque ciliata v. glabra, nitens, marginibus superne breviter 
ciliatis ; IV* quam II** 3—4-plo brevior, lineari-euneata, integra v. in 
‘/, superiore in lacinias 2 cuspidatas piliferas fissa ; arista 14—20 mm. 
longa, patula, genu parum distincto, concolor, columná scabrä. 
Antherz 4 mm. longe. 
In insulis Mauritius (Bory aliique) et Bourbon (Boivin 984). 
Obs. In speciminibus eodem loco lectis gluma IV* modo integra 
modo euspidato-fissa, gluma I“ glabra v. carina longe ciliata, I"* 
longius breviusve pilosa. 
14. P. Cumingii (Nees! ap. Steud. Synops. 1, p. 373); laminis 
linearibus; racemis 2—4"5, ariste perfect columna exserta quam 
subula parum v. '/, breviore. — (Synon. vide sub varr.) 
Culmi ascendentes, 50—80 cm. alti, subgraciles, 5—6-nodes, infra 
racemos griseo-pubescentes, estriati. Vagin® superiores arctæ, nodis- 
que glaberrimz, inferiores dense aggregate», infimze squamzeformes 
appresse albo-pilosze, pilis arrectis nec intertextis. Laminz e basi æqui- 
lata ad ortum subito contracta lineares, 5—20 em. longae, 3—5 mm. 
lat, virides, subtus glaberrim&, supra scaberule et interdum pilis 
raris conspers®, margine scaberul®, nervis primariis utrinque 3—4 
pereurse. Racemi secus rhacheos communis pilose nodos 5—7 mm. 
distantes solitarii, 4—9 em. longi, subgraciles v. crassiusculi ; articuli 
pedicellique spiculam dimidiam subsuperantes, lineares, suboblique 
disjungentes, dorso marginibusque pilis accrescentibus (summis arti- 
culo paullo v. non brevioribus) dense vestiti. Spiculz sessiles oblonge, 
4—5 mm. longz, callo brevi barba spicula 3-plo breviori cineto; - 
gluma Ir apice angustius truncato eiliolata, a basi ultra medium pilis 
rigidulis glum: apicem plus minus superantibus densissime villosa, 
marginibus ad apicem usque ciliata; I^ carina et in ’/, inferiore 
