242 y MONOCOTYLEDONEÆ. f ISCHEMUM. 
(specimina macerrima, sine flore c) ; Spodiopogon angustifolius Trin. 
in Mém. Acad. Petersb. ser. 6, vol. 2, p. 300, Spec. Gram. tab. 336; 
Sp. laniger Nees! ap. Steud. Synops. 1, p. 373; Spod. notopogon 
Nees ! 1. e.; Andropogon notopogon, obvallatus et involutus Steud. ll. 
ce.; Pollinia eriopoda Hance in Journ. of Bot. 4 (1866), p. 173. 
Csespitosum. Innovationes intravaginales. Culmi 60—90 em. alti, 
erecti, graciles, 3—4-nodes, compressiuseuli, latere vaginze dorso res- 
pondente sulcati, glaberrimi, superne brevissime nudi, estriati, e nodis 
2—3 superioribus ramos floriferos plerumque solitarios (raro binos) 
breves emittentes, basi ob tomentum copiosum specie tumefacti. Vaginze 
inferiores dense aggregati, inferne dilatati, diu persistentes culmique 
basin tomento denso eingentes, superiores teretiuscule, arctz, no- 
disque glaberrim& v. basi pilosulze, costatze. Ligulæ loco series pilorum 
brevium. Lamin® e basi aequilata a vagina parum distincta anguste 
lineares, valde elongata, 20—60 em. longae, in acumen subpungens 
attenuatz, vernatione conduplicatz, adulte plans v. scepius siccando 
complieatz, explicate 2—3 mm. lat, rigide, suberect&, basi fim- 
briate, ceterum subtus glaberrimze, supra glabrz v. versus basin : 
pilosule, margine scaberule, nervis lateralibus primariis utrinque 
4—6 subzequalibus validis prominentibus confertis percurse. Racemi 
2—4"! secus rhacheos communis glabrz nodos circ. 5—7 mm. dis- 
tantes solitarii, laterales sessiles, inzequales, 2—4 cm. longi, crassius- 
culi, erecti, densitlori, ferrugineo-v. aureo-villosi ; articuli pedicellique 
spicula duplo breviores, lineari-filiformes, apice suboblique disjun- 
gentes, basi pilis rufidulis ipsos zequantibus dense cincti, ceterum laxe 
breviterque ciliati. Spieulze omnes conformes, 3,5—4,5 mm. longe, 
lanceolatze, callo brevissimo obtuso pilis ferrugineis spicula '/,—'/, 
brevioribus dense barbato ; gluma I™ subchartacea, obtusa, acute 
2—3-dentata, marginibus non inflexis nec hyalinis, dorso convexa, 
valide 5-nervis, marginibus in '/, inferiore pilis rufidulis glumze apicem 
subattingentibus dense ciliatis, in !/, inferiore dorsi medii eirro ejus- 
modi pilorum ornata, superne scabra; II I” conspicue superans, 
membranaceo-chartacea, lanceolata, obtusiuscula, bidentula, inter 
dentes mucronem v. aristulam ipsa 2—4-plo breviorem rigidulam. 
seabram emittens, carinata, carina superne scabra inferne barbata, 
3—b-nervis, (nervis lateralibus brevioribus), in !/, inferiore more 
I ciliata, superius eiliolata; III* I zequans, oblonga, obtusa, irre- 
gulariter bidentata, hyalina, enervis, glabra v. apice eiliolata ; palea 
paullo brevior, linearis, bidentata, ciliolata, subbinervis; floris c 
anthere 2 mm. longs, raro flos dj? paleaque prorsus deficientes. 
