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scabro-punctata, loco nervi medii sulco profundo in callum descen- 
dente ubique angusto notata, ad latera sulei tenuiter 2-nervis, ecos- 
tata; gluma He I subaequans, chartacea, lineari-lanceolata, acuta, 
subcarinata, carina scabra scaberula, 3-nervis, ex apice aristam exse- 
rens capillarem patulam ipsam superantem facillime rumpentem ; 
IIT I^» zequans, lineari-oblonga, obtusa, hyalina, binervis, margini- 
bus implicatis retrorsum ciliatis ; ejus palea glumam subaquans, 
similis, bidentata, glabra; floris c? anthere 2,5 mm. longs; IV* 
quam Il? '/, brevior, e basi lineari hyalina 3-nervi glabra sensim 
abiens in aristam tenuem 30—40 mm. longam columná castaneá ad 
spiras scabrá subulam flavidam squante; ejus palea glumam æquans, 
bidentula, enervis, glabra, marginibus implieata. Stigmata linearia, 
stylos squantia. Caryopsis linearis, ventre leviter sulcata, flavida, 
macula hilari purpureo-violacea. Spieule pedicellate 7 mm. longe, 
lanceolate; gluma I** chartacea, bieuspidato-bidentata, marginibus 
totis inflexis, carinis »qualiter membranaceo-alatis, 7-nervis, nervis 
3 lateralibus margini approximatis viridibus, exsulca, scaberula ; II^ 
membranacea, lanceolata, acuta, 3-nervis, superne ciliolata; IIT, 
palea et flos Z ut in spicula sessili, sed glabra; IV* II?» simillima, 
hyalina, ciliata, ejus palea ut illa gl. II, florem 5 fovens. 
India orient. prope Narsingpur prov. Centralis, alt. 330 m. 
(O. Kuntze in h. prop.); pr. Sholapur in prov. Bombay (d^* Stead in 
h. m.). — Species I. laxo affinis, at distinctissima. 
40. Y. ramosissimum ; spiculis sessilibus parium 2 infimorum 
racemi muticis, ovario hebetato v. nullo; gluma I^ spicularum ferti- 
lium obtusa, II“ mutica. 
Perenne ? Culmi arundinacei ultra 1,5 m. alti, erecti, teretiusculi, 
glaberrimi, paniculato-ramosissimi. Vaginæ teretes, strictæ, carina- 
tæ, glaberrimz, internodiis breviores, summa ramorum spathiformis, 
aphylla, a racemo plus minus remota. Ligula brevis, truncata, char- 
tacea, fuscescens, glabra. Lamins e basi angustata lanceolato-linea- 
res, elongatz (superiores quas solas vidi 40 cm. long& 2 em. late), 
setaceo-acuminatz, rigidule, glauce, glabræ, subtus scaberulm | 
supra leves, margine serrulato-scaberrimze, costa media inferne 
crassissima, obtusa, multinervi, supra late albostriata munita, nervis 
lateralibus haud prominulis pereurs&. Panicula foliosa circ. 1 m. 
longa, multinodis; rami bini-terni, elongati, plurinodes, ex omnibus - 
nodis ramulos 3—5" subzquales fascieulatos 12—15 cm. longos 
edentes, ramis ramulisque strictis, erectis, glaberrimis, superne 
