266 MONOCOTYLEDONEJE. THELEPOGON . 
30—45 cm. alti, graciles, erecti, simplices, compressi, angulati, 
striati, superne longiuscule nudi et breviter hirsuti. Vaginz inferio- 
res densius aggregate, omnes ad margines et carina ciliati, ceterum 
leves, nodis barbatis. Ligula brevis (1,5 mm. longa), rotundata, 
membranacea, glabra. Laminze apice obtuso subeucullatze, 10—15 em. 
longe, 7—8 mm. late, rigidule, marginibus pilis longiusculis rigi- 
dulis basi tuberculatis dense ciliatæ, secus costam mediam leviter 
prominentem pilosulz, ceterum glaberrims, nervis primariis utrinque 
6—7 prominulis pereursze. Racemus crassiusculus, 4 cm. v. plus lon- 
gus, rectus, lividus; rhacheos subundulat& articuli erassiusculi, spi- 
cula duplo breviores, breviter parceque ciliati. Spicule rhachi arcte 
appresse v. subpatul®, imbricatze, late ovat&, 5 mm. longe, callo 
pilis spicula 3—4-plo brevioribus barbato; gluma I"* coriaceo-charta- 
cea, acutiuscula, minime alata, earinis setis rigidulis erecto-patulis dis- 
tinetis reetiusculis sursum decrescentibus longioribus gluma latitudi- 
nem subsuperantibus violascentibus scabris pectinata, dorso subcon- 
vexa, glabra, seaberula, preter carinam tenuiter 4-nervis. Pedicelli 
steriles articulos zequantes, ciliati, glumam setiformem coriaceam sca- 
bram 3 mm. longam ferentes. 
India orient. (Griff. 6776 in h. berol., e h. Kewensi nomine inedito 
Ischemi Helferi Munro communicata, quod, quia nomenclature - 
legibus a congressu botanicorum Parisiensi acceptis contrarium, non 
recepi. 
XI. THELEPOGON Roth Nov. pl. spec. p. 62; Benth. et Hook. Gen. 
Pl. 3, p. 1131; Jardinea Steud. Synops. 1, p. 360 ex p., non Flora 
1850, p. 229, ut Benth. et Hook. citant. (Cfr. Rottbollia subg. 
Jardinea). 
Racemi subcompositi spicam referentes corymboso-digitati, pedun- 
eulati, multiarticulati, rhachi fragili articulis profunde exeisis. Spi- 
cule ad quemvis rhacheos nodum solitari:, primariis enim ad merum 
pedicellum fere glumiformem redactis, secundariis sessilibus solis 
relictis, teretiusculze, biflorze, flore inferiore g’, superiore 9, demum 
cum rhacheos articulo aceumbente deeidentes, aristatz : gluma Ir* 
coriacea, marginibus non implicatis, reliquis accumbens, mutica; II® 
chartacea, ecarinata, in rhacheos exeisura fere nidulans, mutica ; 
II hyalina, paleam similem floremque g triandrum fovens; IV* bya- 
lina, bifida, e sinu aristam perfectam emittens, 3-nervis, nervis in 
lobos excurrentibus; ejus palea glumam æquans, binervis. Lodieule 
