256 MONOCOTYLEDONEE. APOGOPIS, 
plo brevioribus albis barbato : gluma I": chartaceo-membranacea, 
convoluta, vi expansa oblonga, obtusissima, minute tridentata, 3-ner- 
vis, nervis infra. apicem arcuatim conjungentibus, undique pilis albis 
gluma 2—3-plo brevioribus tecta ; II“ I™ æquans, ei similis, obtusa, 
integra, obtuse carinata, carina pilosa ; III* I” quans, hyalina, ovata, 
obtusa, enervis, glabra, vacua ; IV* II?» subzequans, anguste linearis, 
hyalino-membranacea, l-nervis, glabra v. superne pilifera, sensim in 
aristam abiens jam media gluma concrescentem validiusculam 16— 
20 mm. longam eolumná brunneá longe albo-pilosä subflexuosá quam 
subula pallida laxissime torta 3-plo breviore; palea O, stamina floris 
terminalis 0 ; styli 0,6 mm. longi, stigmata 4 mm. longa. 
Australia : Arnhems Land (F. v. Mueller). Vidi racemum specim. 
authent. 
Obs. Tertia fortasse species hujus generis est Andropogon incurvà- 
tus Retz. Obs. 5, p. 21 (non Trin. in Spreng. Entdeck. 2, p. 91), quem 
vero videre nondum mihi contigit. Nam desideratur in ipso herb. 
Retzii nunc Univers. Lundensis. Differt ex descriptione racemis pluri- 
bus filiformibus subdigitatis viridi-fuscis, gluma I”: lineari, obtusa. 
XIII. APOCOPIS Nees in Proced. Linn. Soc. 1 (1841), p. 93 ex Benth. 
et Hook. Gen. Pl. 3, p. 1128; Amblyaehyrum Hochst. in Flora 1856, 
p. 26. 
Racemi subcompositi (spicam referentes) gemini v. subdigitati, mul- 
tiartieulati, rhachi fragili. Spiculze ad quemvis rhacheos nodum soli- 
taris, primariis enim ad merum pedicellum brevem redactis, secun- 
dariis solis relictis sessilibus, a dorso subeompress&, biflorze, flore in- 
feriore c, superiore 9 v. rarissime 8, demum cum rhacheos articulo 
accumbente decidentes, aristatee v. submuticæ : gluma I": lata, trun- 
cata v. emarginata, mutica, marginibus plana, non inflexa inde ecari- 
nata, reliquis accumbens ; II“ subcarinata mutica ; III* hyalina II^" 
subzequans, paleam similem floremque c? diandrum fovens ; IV* inter 
apicis dentes (sepe brevissimos) mucronem v. aristam exserens, 1-ner- 
vis, ejus palea hyalina, enervis. Lodieule 0. Stamina floris superioris 
sepissime 0, raro 2. Styli brevissimi; stigmata elongata, linearia, 
brevissime pubescentia, ex apice diss exserta. Caryopsis tere- 
tiuscula, embryone dimidiam caryopsin :equante. 
Gramina humiliora, Indiam Asiamque orientalem incolentes, race- . 
mis robustis aretissime conniventibus sepe unum mentientibus, spi- 
culis arete imbrieatis apieem versus dilatatis truneatisque insignia. 
