252 MONOCOTYLEDONEE. ISCHEMUM. 
42. I. Hügelii. Annuum; culmi basi decumbentes, dein ascenden- 
tes, parte erecta 30—40 em. alti, graciles, subeompressi, glaberrimi, 
superne breviter nudi, subelavati, basi ramosi et insuper ramulum 
brevem floriferum e nodo penultimo agentes. Vaginæ teretiusculz, 
carinatæ, laxiusculæ, glaberrimze, internodiis multo breviores, summa 
cum lamina brevissima v. in ramis aphylla. Ligula ovata, 1—2 mm. 
longa, fuseo-membranacea, lateribus in vaginam decurrentibus, gla- 
bra. Laminæ inferiores brevissime petiolatz, superiores sessiles, e 
basi cordata lanceolatze, 3—5 em. longze, 12—15 mm. lat, acumina- 
tæ, plan, flaceide, glabrze v. basi fimbriat et hine inde pilis adsper- 
sæ, margine scaberrimze, ceterum lives, nervo medio tenui superne 
anguste albo-lineato pereurss, nervis lateralibus tenuissimis. Race- 
mus 4—5 cm. longus, crassiusculus, flavidus et livide violaceo-suffu- 
sus, glabriusculus ; articuli spicula '/, breviores, clavati, angulos duos 
exhibentes, dorso eonvexi, basi ciliati, ceterum glabri, scaberuli. Spi- 
cule sessiles cum callo 1 mm. longo lato basi breviciliato 6 mm. lon- 
gi, oblong&; gluma I™ in '/, inferiore coriacea, rugis 4 elevatis medio 
sæpe interruptis notata, enervis, glabra v. (ssepe in eodem specimine) 
pilis rigidis obsita, in '/, superiore chartaceo-membranacea, obtusa, 
marginibus anguste inflexa carinis submarginatis scaberrimis, dorso 
plano glabro tenuissime 5-nervis; II? I^» subzequans, ovata, obtusius- 
cula v. aeutiuseula, chartacea, tota longitudine elevato-carinata, carina 
excentrica levi, uninervis, ciliol ata, dorso scabra; II I” zequans, 
oblonga, hyalina, enervis, glabra; ejus palea obsolete 2-nervis, late im- 
plicata, ceterum similis; floris c? anthere 2 mm. longz; IV* quam 
* parum brevior, lanceolato-linearis, aeuta, l-nervis, hyalina, gla- 
bra; ejus palea glumam æquans, e basi ovata lineari-oblonga, obtusa, 
emarginata, binervis, glabra; floris 8 anthere 3 mm. longse, styli 
stigmata anguste lineares æquantes. Spicule pedicellatze pedicellis 
brevissimis (spieula 5-plo brevioribus) latissimis glabris v. basi ciliatis 
insidentes, sessiles sequantes, iisdem similimæ nisi gluma IV* et ejus 
palea glumæ II" simillimze, et flos superior c? v. hebetatus. 
= orient. in civitate Busser (Bussahir), (Hügel in h. Vindob., 
1658). 
Ischemi species dubia. 
1. I. eorollatum Nees ap. Steud. Synops. 1, p. 369; nieo 
gon corollatus Steud. l. c. Citatur Royle nr. 264, a me non visus. - 
Nepalia. 
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