180 MONOCOTYLEDONEJE. POLLINIA. 
I"* paullo breviore, IV* quam IP triplo breviore, palea glumam IV** 
seequante. 
Ligula dorso pilis stipata. Laminse laneeolato-lineares, cire. 9 cm. 
longe, 5—7 mm. latz, utrinque glaberrim®. Racemi 4, rhacheos 
communis internodiis 6—7 mm. longis glabris, erecto-patuli ; articuli 
spiculam sequantes v. paullo breviores. Spieule 3 mm. long&, callo 
pilis perpaucis v. obsoletis obsito; gluma I"* dorso glaberrima ; 
II? acuminata, mucronulata, acute carinata, margine hyalino superne 
ciliolata; II linearis, acuminata, fere stipitiformis, membranacea, 
apice hyalino ciliolata, enervis ; IV* lineari-oblonga ; arista 9—11 mm. 
longa superne cirrato-flexuosa ; palea ovata, glabra. Antherc 1,2 mm. 
long&. Pedicelli articulis '/, breviores. 
In ins. Taiti (in h. Boiss. nomine Leptath. Royleani, collectore 
ignoto). 
2° Gluma IV" ultra medium usque fissa ; gl teri etiam dorso pilosæ. — Species nulli alii 
arctius affinis, ad Eulalias vergens. 
28. P. dispar (Nees! ap. Steud. Synops. 1, p. 410). 
Perennis. Innovationes extravaginales. Culmi ascendentes, 25—40 
em. alti, subrobusti, glaberrimi, ad apicem usque foliati, estriati, 
basi ramosi, superne simplices. Vaginæ teretes, arctæ, inter costas 
appresse pilosule, nodis glabr&. Ligula brevissima, truncata, pilis 
longis dense ciliata. Laminæ lanceolatze v. lineari-lanceolatz, acutæ, 
4—6 em. longze, 6—8 mm. lat, rigidule, patentes, subtus appresse 
pubescentes supra glaberrim&, margine scabrze. Racemi ex Neesio fas- 
eieulati, ex autopsia bini, graciles, pilosi, articuli spicula '/,—"/, brevio- 
res, pilis albis mollibus articulo paullo — '/, brevioribus laxe eiliati, 
pedicelli adhue breviores. Spicule lanceeolatze, 5 mm. long, pallide 
virides, callo pilis spicula 3—4-plo brevioribus barbato, ceterum albo- 
pilose; gluma I^ membranaceo-chartacea, acuta, bimucronulata, 
margine augustissime laxeque inflexa, earinis cum dorso a basi ultra 
medium usque pilis mollibus gluma plus duplo brevioribus obsita, 
dorso inter nervos impressa, 6-nervis, interdum nervo medio brevi 
aucta ; II^ lanceolata, acuminata, apice hyalino mucronulata, 1-nervis, 
carina dorsoque ultra medium usque pilosa, marginibus hyalinis 
ciliata; II I= subzquans, hyalina, oblonga, acutiuseula, enervis, 
ciliata; IV* quam II^ subduplo brevior, hyalina, oblonga, laciniis 
lineari-oblongis obtusis glabris, basi 3-nervis; arista gracilis, perfecta, 
9—11 mm. longa, columnä castaneä glaberrimá reetä subulam taves- 
