260 MONOCOTYLEDONEJE. EREMOCHLOA. 
asservata species 5—6 exstare affirmant. Exeluso A. tridentato Benth. 
(Lophopogone meo) restant 4—5, ergo, nisi varietates supra enume- 
ratas species habebantur, species nonnulle mihi ignotz, fortasse ex 
Archipelago Malayano unde nullam vidi, in herb. Kewensi latere 
videntur. 
XIV. EREMOCHLOA Büse in Pl. Jungh. 1, p. 357; Miqu. Fl. Ind. 
bat. 3, p. 480. — Ischæmum Sect. Pectinaria Benth. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. 19, p. 71; Benth. et Hook. Gen. 3, p. 1132. — Peetinaria 
Hack. in Engl. et Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 2, vol. 2, p. 26. 
Racemi subcompositi spicam refer enus in apice culmi ramorumve 
solitarii, multi ‚rhachi subfragili. Spiculæ ad quemvis rhacheos 
nodum solitarie, primar iis enim ad merum i glumiformem 
e gerentem redactis, secundariis solis 
relictis sessilibus, a dorso compresse, biflorze, flore inferiore g, supe- 
riore 9, demum (sed tarde) cum rhacheos articulo accumbente deci- 
dentes, prorsus muticz : gluma I™ lata, chartacea, marginibus angus- 
tissime inflexis reliquas amplectens, bicarinata, carinis inferne vel per 
totum decursum spinulis v. setis rigidulis pectinatis ; II“ tricarinata ; 
II: hyalina, paleam similem floremque g triandrum fovens; IV* 
hyalina, integra, enervis v. nervo medio supra mediam glumam 
evanido percursa; ejus palea glumæ simillima nisi angustior. Lodiculze 
anguste cuneatz. Stamina floris superioris 3; styli breves; stigmata 
linearia, infra mediam spiculam e lateribus exserta. Caryopsis ellip- 
tica, a dorso compressa, ventre planiuscula, obtusa, embryone mediam 
caryopsin zequante. 
Gramina humiliora, Indiam orientalem Asiamque orientalem tropi- 
cam incolentes, habitu distinetissimo, racemis solitariis compressis 
unilateralibus, spieulis latis plerumque obtusis margine peetinatis 
insignia. — Perennes. Vaginz carinato-compress&, internodiis bre- 
viores v. inferiores iis longiores, summa aphylla. Laminæ e basi 
wquilata sensim in vaginam defluente exacte lineares, obtuss v. 
obtusiusculie, vernatione conduplieatz, adult plane v. basi (raro 
omnino) complicatze, virides, costula media tenui uninervi parum pro- 
minula supra haud albostriata sed fasciculo cellularum bulliformium 
magno munita pereurs®, nervis lateralibus primariis non v. vix pro- 
minulis. Racemus compressus ; articuli lineari-elavati, subcompressi, 
demum recte disjungentes, szepius glabri. Spiculæ sessiles callo minuto, 
