182 MONOCOTYLEDONEE. SPODIOPOGON. 
Ins. Philippinz pr. Manila (Chamisso, Escholtz), ins. Ualan (ex h. 
Ac. Petrop.). ee 
Obs. P. tenuem Trin. ex Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 421 non vidi, sed ex 
deseriptione distincta videtur. Nam racemi 3—7 cm. longi dicuntur, 
pili pedicellorum gluma multo breviores, gluma I"* 4-nervis, valde 
ciliata. Anne P. articulata Trin. ? 
, 
VII. SPODIOPOGON Trin. Fund. p. 192, t. 17 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. 
PI. 3, p. 1126. 
Racemi subcompositi paniculati, pedunculati, 2—4-(rarissime multi-) 
articulati, rhachi articulata, fragili, rarissime tenaci. Spicule ad 
quemvis rhacheos articulum bin®, primaria longiuscule pedicellata 
demum a pedicello soluta, secundaria sessilis cum rhacheos articulo 
aecumbente demum decidens, rarissime pedicellata a pedicello solubi- 
lis, utraque biflora v. raro uniflora, flore superiore 2, dum clausa est 
teres v. a latere subcompressa, aristata ; gluma I”: mutica, convoluta 
v. complicato-convexa, marginibus non v. angustissime implicata, 
hinc ecarinata, imparinervis, nervis 5—9 in eostas prominentibus ; 
He T» æquans, mutica v. mucronata, carinata, 3—plurinervis ; IT 
hyalina, paleam floremque c triandrum fovens, raro vacua ; IV* ad 
medium v. ultra medium usque fissa, e sinu aristam emittens perfec- 
tam. Palea glumam suam »quans v. paullo brevior. Lodiculæ euneatze, 
truncatze, glabrze. Stamina 3. Stigmata linearia, longiuscula. Caryopsis 
eylindrica v. a latere subcompressa, embryone '/, v. */, caryopseos 
sequante. 
Gramina orbis antiqui, szepius perennia, elatiora, foliis szepius latio- 
ribus, basi angustatis, panicula multiramea, rhachi communi ramos 
imos superante, ramis specie subverticillatis v. solitariis, basi nudis. 
— Culmi farcti, glaberrimi. Vagin® nodis glabris. Spiculæ callo mi- 
nuto, obtuso, villoso v. paree barbato. 
Genus Eriantho, Polliniz et Ischzemo (huic maxime) affine. Charae- 
ter genericus przcipue in racemis sæpius longe tenuiterque peduneu- 
latis et in spicularum a latere subeompressarum gluma I"* ecarinata, 
valide nervosa, imparinervi situs, nec ut cl. Bentham opinatus est, in 
spicularum in quovis racemo numero parvo. 
