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— Culmi graciles, plurinodes, teretes, glaberrimi. Vaginse teretes, 
costatze, nodis glabrze, ceterum sæpe superne pilis basi papillosis hir- 
sutæ, internodiis breviores, summa subinflata cum lamina brevissima 
v. Ssubobsoleta. Ligula brevis, rotundato-truneata, membranacea, gla- 
bra. Laminz plans, utrinque pilis basi tubereulatis obsitze, costa 
media tenui uninervi supra albo-lineata percursæ. Racemi erecti, bre- 
vissime pedicellati ; articuli lineares, dorso convexi v. subcarinati, 
ventre plani, disjuneti apice leviter excavati, marginibus ciliati. 
1. A. Royleanus (Nees! l. ec. et in Ann. et Mag. Nat. Hist. 7, 
p. 220) ; perennis, spieulis submuticis, gluma IV* brevissime aristata 
v. mucronata v. mutica. — Ischemum paleaceum Trin.! in Mém. Ac. 
Petersb. ser. 6, vol. 2, p. 293; Spec. Gram. tab. 333; Andropogon 
paleaceus et A. himalayensis Steud. Synops. 1, p. 376, 377. 
Rhizoma repens. Innavationes extravaginales. Culmi ascendentes 
0,2—1 m. longi, subsuleati, superne longius nudi, simplices v. ramulo 
florifero aucti. Vaginz laxæ. Laminse e basi parum angustata rotun- 
data vagina latiore lanceolato-lineares; acuminatze, 4—12 em. longe, 
4—10 mm. lat:e, vernatione eonvolutze, adultze planze, rigidule, viri- 
des, suberectæ, utrinque pilis basi papillosis plus minus adspers®, 
margine scabrze, nervis lateralibus primariis utrinque 4—6 tenuibus, 
secundariis crebris pereursse. Racemi 2—4" pedunculo communi 
demum longiuscule exserto fulti, 3—4 cm. longi, glabrescentes, ex 
atroviolaceo et albo-stramineo variegati; articuli spicula subtriplo 
breviores, crassiusuli, recte disjungentes, marginibus (altero longius) 
pilis rufescentibus articulum :equantibus ciliati. Spiculæ eum callo 
obtuso pilis gluma 4-plo brevioribus circumcirca barbato 5 mm. long, 
truncato-obovatze v. subeuneato-obovat®, omnes conformes; gluma 
I»* coriaceo-chartacea, apice latissime — denticulata et minute 
ciliolata, denticulis extimis quasi cornic , dorso planiusculo glabra, 
lævis v. scaberula, manifeste 6—10-nervis, nervorum paribus duobus 
exterioribus in apicis eornieula conniventibus, nervis reliquis breviori- 
bus, apicem haud attingentibus superne anastomosantibus, a basi ad 
2/, V. °/, usque atroviolacea, reliqua parte marginibusque albo-strami- 
nea ; II“ F^? paullo superans, chartacea, late oblonga, truncata, apice 
minute ciliolata, marginibus involuta, 3—5-nervis, glabra, brunnea ; 
HIE IP subzquans, hyalina, ovato-oblonga, angustius truncata, 
apice ciliolota, marginibus planis, 1-nervis; ejus paleasimillima, ener- 
vis; antherze floris ? 3 mm. longe; IV* Tiles æquans, hyalina, lan- 
ceolata, bidentata, inter dentes obtusiusculos mucronem v. raro aris- 
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