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apice breviter bidentula, carinis anguste albo-alatis glabris levibus, 
intus rubescens et tenuiter multinervis, prseter lineas carinales ruben- 
tes pallida, glaberrima, nitens; II“ coriacea, ovata, aeuminata, carina 
alata, intus rubra 5-nervis, extus enervis, glaberrima; III ovato- 
lanceolata, ejus palea 4-nervis, antherse 2,5 mm. longs; gluma IV» 
II^" subaequans, subehartacea, convoluta, margine hyalina, rubes- 
cens, obsolete bidentula, 5—7-nervis, glabra, mucrone v. aristula 
0,5—3 mm. longo. Spiculze pedicellat® 6 mm. long», sessilibus similes 
nisi gluma I^* subobliqua, altero margine late inflexa, flexura alata, 
altera vix implicata, marginata. Flos superior plerumque 8, raro spi- 
cula sterilis. 
Subvarietas : 1. repens (Roxb. sens. str.), culmis longe repentibus, 
parte erecta 10—20 em. longa, racemis brevibus; 2. erectum Büse 
Pl. Jungh. 3, 358 (var.); eulmis minus longe repentibus, parte erecta 
30—40 em. alta, racemis longioribus. 
India orient. : Peninsula (Wight 1715), pr. Mangalur (Hohenack. 
Pl. Ind. or. 257) ; Ceylon (Thwait. 3048); Nicobares (Hochstett. in h. 
Vind.); Pulo Penang (ex Roxb.); Malacca (Griff. 6775); Singapur 
(Wall. 8865 E); Java (Zoll. 1216); Philippinz (Cuming 2430, Henke) ; 
Amboina (Doleschall); Palawan (leg...., in h. Nees); Australia : 
Queensland (ex Benth.); Nova Caledonia (Balansa 1738); Rawak 
(Gaudich.) ; Nova Hibernia (Neumann). 
8. I. triticeum (R. Brown Prodr. p. 205); eulmis erectis super- 
ne breviter nudis; gluma I™ spieulz sessilis extus 5-nervi, punctis 
violaceis scabra ; IV” arista 5—6 mm. longa. — Benth. Fl. Austr. 7, 
p. 519; Meoschium triticeum Beauv. ap. Roem. et Schult. Syst. 2, p. 
190; Andropogon tritieiformis Steud. Synops. 1, p. 376. 
Culmi 60—90 em. alti, robusti, superne ramum solitarium brevem 
proferentes, apice subelavati. Vagine glabrz v. inferiores piloss, 
nodis breviter barbatis v. glabrescentibus, summa subinflata, laminae 
rudimentum ferens. Lamin:e elongatz, latiuscule, basi contracte v. 
subcordate. Racemi bini v. raro terni, 6—7 cm. longi, crassissimi, 
alter pedunculo 10 mm. longo fultus; articuli pedicellique spicula duplo 
breviores, angulo interiore minute ciliati, exteriore (nec anteriore) 
scaberuli v. (in eodem specimine !) ciliati. Spiculz sessiles cum callo 
2—9,5 mm. longo glabro 11—12 mm. longe, oblique obovato- 
oblong&, sordide violascentes; gluma I"* subcoriacea, acuti E 
obtusiuscula, apice subemarginata, carinis in */, inferiore incipien- 
tibus, alis latiusculis inæqualibus, chartaceis, lividis, minutissime 
