.194 MONOCOTYLEDONEJE. ` POGONATHERUM. 
ore nodisque glabris ; spiculæ sessilis 5 mm. longs gluma I™ apice 
utrinque auriculata. — P. majus Griseb. in Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Gæt- 
ting. 1868, p. 92. 
Culmi 40—50 em. alti, minus graciles, simplices v. ramos floriferos 
paucos solitarios simplices haud fastigiatos edentes. Vaginz teretes, 
glaberrimæ. Ligula 1 mm. longa, truncata, chartaceo-membranacea, 
subfusca, glaberrima. Laminse 6—9 em. longze, 4—6 mm. latze, summa 
non abbreviata, rigidule, patulz, subtus virides, supra subglaucæ, 
trinq ginibusque glaberrimz et lzevissimze. Racemus pedunculo 
filiformi glaberrimo anthesi eurvulo insidens, 4—7 cm. longus, robus- 
tus, aristis rufidulis dense erinitus; articuli pedicellique spicula 2— 
sub-3-plo breviores, erassiusculi, apice vix dilatati, subtrigoni, margine 
altero brevius, altero longius albo-eiliati ciliis summis articulum 
sequantibus ; pedicelli graeiliores, longius eiliati. Spicule sessiles 
oblongz, semper biflorze, fulvze v. leviter violaeeo-suffusee, callo pilis 
` albis spicula 2—3-plo brevioribus barbato; gluma I?" obovato-oblonga, 
apice utrinque auriculo hyalino eiliato et inferius piloso praedita, 3— 
5-nervis, nervis non percurrentibus, dorso glaberrima v. secus nervum 
medium pilis conspersa ; II“ I" paullo superans, ovata, obtusa, carina 
scabra v. superne pilosula, apice ciliata ; ceterum glabra, aristam sub- 
erectam circ. 15—16 mm. longam emittens ; III* I?» zequans, lanceo- 
lata, acutiuscula, hyalina, enervis, glabra; ejus palea ipsam sequans, 
late oblonga, obtusa, subbinervis, glabra; stamina 2, antheris 2,5 mm. 
longis ; IV* II^" gquans, lanceolata, hyalina, ad '/, v. '/, usque fissa, 
glabra, 1-nervis, ejus arista 17—20 mm. longa columná atro-fuscá 
oligospiräd e glumis exsertá quam subula brunnescens subflexuosa 
capillaris erecto-patula nec reflexa pluries breviore. Palea quam 
gluma IV* paullo brevior. Antherz floris 8 3 mm. longs. Spiculze 
pedicellatz lineari-oblongze, 3 mm. longze, callo pilis spieulam subæ- 
quantibus barbato ; gluma I" 2-nervis, dorso pilosula, III» 0, IV* ut 
in spieula sessili, flos ©. 
India orient. : Bengalia orient. '(Griff. 6792); Khasia reg. temp. 
(Hook. f. et Thoms. « Pogonatherum n. 2 »). 
Species excludenda : 
. Pogonatherum tenue Edgew. in Journ. Asiat. Soc. of Bengal 1852, 
p. 181. est : Arthraxi quzdam species (forsitan A. mierophyllus 
Hochst.), etsi gluma IV* profunde bipartita deeribitur. 
