188 MONOCOTYLEDONEE. SPODIOPOGON. 
petioliformi) sublanceolato-lineares, 15—50 em. longe, 8—12 mm. 
latz;, summa parum breviore, tenui-acuminatz, plans, rigidulæ, 
patulæ, virides, subtus pilis basi tubereulatis adspersze, supra scabr, 
margine scaberrimæ, basi barbatze, costa media crasissima supra late 
albolineata munitze, nervis primariis utrinque 4—5, seeundariis inter 
illos 3—5"'s tenuissimis, neutris prominulis percursæ. Panicula ovata 
v. ovato-oblonga, 15—20 em. longa, lucida, patens, apice nutans, rha- 
chi communi tereti, glaberrima ; rami primarii 2—3", inferiores cum 
secundariis basilaribus parum brevioribus verticillos spurios 4—8- 
meros formantes, omnes simplices, tenui-filiformes v. subcapillares, 
nutantes, glaberrimi, in axillis barbati, ultra medium usque nudi, race- 
mos singulos ferentes. Racemi 3—5 em. longi, graeiles, 6—10-articu- 
lati, laxiflori, rhachi filiformi ad nodulos barbatula, internodiis lævi- 
` bus spiculas subzequantibus v. inferiores superantibus ; pedicelli lon- 
giores spiculis aequilongi, breviores iis duplo—3-plo breviores, omnes 
eximie clavati, crassiusculi, ss PESO "PIS pel margine sca- 
bri, apice post del telli culz lineari-lanceo- 
late, subfusiformes, bs mn. long, cano-viridule, callo pilis albis 
spicula 5—6-plo brevioribus parce barbato ; gluma I^" herbaceo-char- 
tacea, e '/, inferiore acutata, minute bidentula (in spiculis longe pedi- . 
cellatis mucronata), elevato-7—9-nervis, ad nervos marginales pilis 
gluma 2—4-plo brevioribus ciliata, ad reliquos scaberrima ; II? char- 
tacea, lanceolata, apice minute bidentula inter dentieulos mucronata 
(in spiculis primariis longius), obsolete carinata, convoluta, 7-nervis, 
secus et juxta nervum medium pilosa, ceterum scaberrima; III: quam 
I" '/, brevior, oblongo-lanceolata, obtusa v. in spiculis primariis 
mucronulata, denticulata, hyalina, enervis, glabra, vacua v. sepe 
paleam ipsa duplo breviorem anguste linearem bidentatam, nunquam 
vero stamina includens ; IV* quam II“ paullo brevior, linearis, hya- 
lina, laciniis lineari-subulatis, glabra; arista gracilis 12—15 mm. 
- longa, subperfecta, columnä brunnescente scabrá oligospirä intra glu- 
mas latente quam subula violascens basi laxe torta 3—4-plo breviore. 
Palea glumä '/, brevior, late lanceolata, bidentula, enervis, glabra. 
Lodiculæ subeonnatze. Antherz 3 mm. longze. Styli stigmata linearia 
4,5 mm. longa atropurpurea e spieulze apice exserta subzequantes. 
Japonia : pr. Nagasaki (jam Thunb., nuper Wawra, in h. Vind.), 
Yokoska (Savat.), Yokuhama (Wichura h. ber.) Kanagawa (Schrott- 
müll. h. ber.) ; India or. in montium Khasia reg. tropica (Hook. f. et 
Thoms. sub « Chrysopogon 13 »). 
Obs. Ad Spodiopogones accedit Ischemum angustifolium Hack. 
