170 MONOCOTYLEDONEJE. POLLINIA , 
- apice angustissime truncatulo minute bimueronulata, marginibus laxe 
inflexis, dorso plano v. subconeavo a basi usque ad apicem margini- 
busque pilis fulvis rigidulis aecrescentibus dein decrescentibus densis- 
sime vestita, manifeste 2-nervis ; I^ lanceolata, subito acutata, cari- 
nata, carina et juxta carinam breviter pilosa, dorso ceterum nitens ; 
III: lanceolata, acutiuscula, 2-nervis ; IV* arista spicula duplo longior, 
columnä retiuscula glaberrima quam subula inferne laxe sed grosse 
torta duplo breviore. Palea quam gluma II® 4-plo brevior, obovato- 
truncata, erosula, ciliolata. Antherz 3 mm. longe. 
India orient. : in montium Khasia regione temperata inter 1600 et 
2000 met. alt. (Hook. f. et Thomson h. Ind. or.) 
Species excludenda : 
Eulalia mexicana Steud. Synops. 1, p. 412, verisimiliter Andro- 
pogon saccharatus Sw. 
Subgen. 2. LEPTATHERUM (Benth. et Hook 1.e.); Leptatherum (genus) 
Nees in Proceed. Linn. Soc. 1 (1841), p. 92; Mierostegium Nees 
in Steud. Synops. 1, p. 411; Nemastachys Steud. l. c., p. 357. 
Culmi decumbentes, radicantes, dein ascendentes, fareti. Lamin® 
e basi angustata szepius valde contracta subpetioliformi lanceolatz v. 
lineari-lanceolatz, latiuscule. Gluma I": loco nervi medii plerumque 
suleo (intus in costulam prominente) exarata, bicarinata, carinis 
scabra v. breviter ciliata (ciliis ad summum glumam dimidiam zequan- 
tibus), dorso glabro canaliculato-depressa, apice siepe bidentula. — 
Annus v. rarissime perennes, plerumque humiliores, gracitiorh; 
habitu Arthraxorum. Culmus basi divergenti I 
v. raro florifero-ramosus, multinodus, teres v. ter etiusculus, striatulus, 
apice breviter nudus. Vaginz internodiis breviores, costat®, infe- 
riores ramulis divergentibus sepe a culmo dejectæ. Ligula sepissime 
rufescendo-membranacea, lateribus in vaginam decurrentibus. Lami- 
næ plans, vernatione convolutze, patule, virides, costa media ple- 
rumque tenui uninervi (raro ad basin 3—5 nervi) supra anguste 
albolineata munita, nervis lateralibus primariis nonnullis tenuibus 
non prominentibus secundariisque v. tertianis inter illos creberrimis 
tenuissimis v. subobsoletis pereursze. Racemi plerumque strieti, erecto- 
patuli v. patentes, pallide virides v. violaceo-suffusi ; articuli spicula 
