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vexo supra medium eirro pilorum ferrug glumam 
ornata ', 5-nervis ; I“ I*» subsuperans, membranacea, late lanceolata, 
acuta, inter apicis dentes breves aristam rectam ipsam superantem 
emittens, carinata, 5-nervis, in ’/, superiore prope margines nervisque 
ferrugineo-pilosa, ceterum glaberrima, lateribus sulcata; II ut in 
longze; IV* II? subaequans, hyalina, lineari-oblonga, complicata, 
versus apicem dilatata, 1-nervis, inter dentes obtusos ciliolatos aristam 
exserens validiusculam 16—20 mm. longam columnä castaneá rectá 
secus spiras ciliolatá quam subula recta flavida duplo breviore ; palea 
glumam :equans, lineari-oblonga, obtusa, sepe mucronata, hyalina, 
enervis, glabra. Stamina floris superioris 0. 
India orient. Coromandel (ex Roxb.); Malabar, Concan (Stocks in 
Hook. f. et Thoms. h. Ind. or. nomine Apocopis filifolie Munro MS. 
distributus) ; Sholapur in prov. Bombay (d"* Stead in h. m.). 
2. L. truncatiglumis ; racemis 3—5"* albo-pilosis. — Ischz- 
mum truncatiglume F. Muell. ap. Benth. Fl. Austral. 7, p. 518. 
Glaber ; culmi erecti 60 em. v. plus alti, nodis glabris. Racemi ses- 
siles, ad pedunculi longi extremitatem glomerati, 3,8—6 em. longi. 
(Hucusque ex Bentham 1. c., sequentia ex autopsia). Rhachis subdis- 
tinete articulata inferne subtenax superne fragilis; articuli spicula 
plus duplo breviores, lineares, trigoni, laxe ciliati, ciliis articulo bre- 
vioribus. Spiculs sessiles cum callo minuto obtuso pareissime barbu- 
lato 5 mm. longs, late oblong&, stramineæ; gluma I"^ obovato- 
oblonga, coriacea, truncata, breviter 3-dentata, a '/, inferiore margi- 
nis ad apicem usque pilis canescentibus fastigiatis (longioribus glumam 
x»quantibus) ciliata, apice ciliolata, dorso valde convexo glaberrima, 
nitens, intus 7-nervis; I“ quam I^^ subduplo v. saltem dimidio lon- 
gior, membranacea, ovato-lanceolata, obtusiuscula, non carinata, 
ciliis paucis adspersa, tenuissime 5-nervis ; II: I“ gequans, ei simil- 
lima nisi enervis, subhyalina ; ejus palea eam zequans, iterum simillima, 
hyalina, binervis, antherz floris inferioris du, 2,5 mm. longæ. Gluma 
IV: II» æquans, lanceolata, acutissima v. mucronata, hyalina, ener- 
vis, glabra v. parce pilosula, ejus palea simillima, enervis. Floris 
superioris stamina 2-(rarissime)3. Spiculæ pedicellatæ pedicello spi- 
cula triplo breviori lineari pilis ipsum æquantibus ciliato insidentes, 
3,5 mm. longæ, lineares, brunnescentes, callo minuto pilis spicula tri- 
1 [nde nomen genericum (a 24ocs, crista, et móyov, barba). 
