SPODIOPOGON, ANDROPOGONEA (AUCT. EDUARDO HACKEL). 187 
1—1,5 em. longi, 2—4-artieulati, lividi, canescenti-pilosi, pedunculis 
4—6 mm. longis fulti: articuli pedicellique spicula duplo breviores, 
lineari-tliformes, marginibus pilis canescentibus mollibus acerescenti- 
bus (summis artieulum superantibus) densiuseule ciliati. Spiculz ses- 
siles anguste lanceolat®, 5 mm. longze, livide virescentes, callo pilis '/, 
spieule zequantibus densiuscule barbato ; gluma Ir: herbaceo-mem- 
branacea, minutissime bidentula, marginibus laxe angusteque inflexis, 
flexuris lzevibus, dorso plano manifeste 5-costato pilis mollissimis gluma 
brevioribus laxe obsita, 7-nervis ; II“ membranacea, lanceolata, acuta, 
3—b-nervis, carina scaberula, dorso glabra, marginibus hyalinis 
superne ciliata; II I subszquans, vacua, membranaceo-hyalina, 
lanceolata, 3-nervis, glabra ; IV* quam II“ paullo brevior, linearis, 
glabra, laciniis linearibus acutissimis, basi 3-nervis, arista gracillima 
8-10 mm. longa, columnä glaberrimä suboceultä subulá concolori laxe 
tortà triplo breviore. Palea glumam IV*" subaquans, subulato-lanceo- 
lata, hyalina, enervis, glabra. Styli stigmatibus late oblongis longiores. 
Spieule pedicellat® ut sessiles, nisi gluma I"* 7—9-nervis, densius - 
pilosa, dorso sæpe convoluta ; II“ 7-nervis, perinde ac I™ pilosa. 
In Himalaya boreali-oceidentalis regione tropica (Hook. f. et 
Thoms. h. Ind. or., « Andropogon 11 »). 
§ 3. Eecoilopus. Spieule uniflore. Racemi pluri-artieulati, rhachi 
tenaci; spieule alim breviter, aliæ longius pedicellatæ, omnes 
demum a pedicello solutæ. — Eecoilopus Steud. Synops. 1, p. 123. 
Sectio sedis subdubi®, fere genus proprium. A Miscantho, cui 
adjunxit Benthamius, differt racemis longe pedunculatis rhachi arti- 
culata (etsi tenaci), gluma I" 7—9-costata. Insignis inter Spodio- 
pogones rhachi pedicellisque subglabris. 
5. Sp. cotulifer. — Andropogon cotuliferum Thunb. Fl. jap. 
p. 41; Eecoilopus andropogonoides Steud. Synops. 1, p. 124 ; Eulalia 
cotulifera Munro ap. Miqu. Prol. p. 177 ; Miscanthus cotulifer Benth. 
in Journ. Linn. Soe. 19, p. 65. 
Annuus. Culmi 80—150 cm. alti, subrobusti, erecti, 4—6-nodi, tere- 
tiuseuli, superne longiuscule nudi, striatuli, simplices. Vaginæ infe- 
riores subcompressæ, carinatæ, a culmo solutæ, superiores teretes, 
laxiusculæ, elevato-costatæ, glaberrimæ, internodiis longiores. Ligula 
oblonga, 2—4 mm. longa, obtusa, fuscescendo-membranacea, glabra, 
. intus pilis stipata. Laminæ e basi valde angustata (in inferioribus sub- 
