ELIONURUS. ANDROPOGONEAE (AUCT. EDUARDO HACKEL). - 333 
ciliatee, ceterum glaberrimz, emortuse basilares ssepe fuscescentes, 
nitidulse. Lamin:e sensim angikipi; Morus em. longs, explicate 2— 
4 mm. latze, siccitate plerumque licatze rarius plan, 
patentes, supra pubescentes v. hirsutze v. demum glabrescentes, mar- 
gine scabrz. Racemi 8—14 cm. longi, longe peduneulati, plus minus 
pilosi, olivacei v. leviter sordideque violascentes, subfragiles ; articuli 
crassiusculi, margine exteriore pilis canescentibus ipsis 3—5-plo bre- 
vioribus dense ciliati, altero laxe parce breviterque ciliato, dorso 
puberuli. Spiculz sessiles cum callo obovato obtusiusculo 1—1,5 mm. 
longo dense breviterque barbato (barba callum z:equante) 7—10 mm. 
longe, lanceolatze : gluma I™ herbaceo-chartacea, acuta, acute bifida, 
lobis subulatis porrectis, carinis a medio ad laciniarum apicem usque 
Scarioso-marginatis, tenuiter 5-nervis; II^ glabra; IF I" subz- 
quans, lanceolata, ciliolata ; IV* paullo brevior, IL: similis nisi 3-ner- 
vis, glabra. Palea 0. Antherze 3 mm. longæ. Pedicelli articulis paullo 
breviores; spiculæ pedicellatze 4—7 mm. long; gluma I™ acutiuscula, 
carinis marginatis, altera brevissime, altera obsolete ciliata, 5-nervis. 
a, genuinus ; gluma I» utriusque spiculæ dorso glabra v. basi bre- 
viter pubescens, carinis a medio breviter ciliata, apicis dentibus '/,— 
'/, glumæ :equantibus. — E. tripsacoides Kunth.! in Humb. et Bonpl. 
N. Gen. 1, p. 192, t. 62; Rottboellia ciliata Nutt. Gen. 1, p. 83; An- 
dropogon chlorostachys Trin.! in Mém. Ac. Petersb. ser. 6, vol. 2, p. 
260 ?; A. Nuttalii Chapm. Fl. South. St. p. 580. 
America bor. et tropica : Georgia (ex Nutt.) ; Florida (Curt. 3630) ; 
Louisiana, (Drumm. 369) ; Texas (Drumm. 344) ; Mexico pr. Jalapa 
(Schiede 942); Nova Granada pr. Mariquita (Bonpl, Karsten); 
Venezuela (Funck 825); pr. Caracas Humb.; Moritz 329). Obs. 
Proveniunt prope Caracas omnes gradus intermedii inter = et (. 
Etiam specimen Humboldtii potius intermedium. 
Obs. Andropogon chlorostachys Trin., specimini manco innixus, 
ambigit inter hunc et E. PUN 
B, ciliaris; gluma I™ in '/,—*/, dorsi plus minus hirsuta, margini- 
bus a basi ad apicem usque eru ciliata. Reliqua praecedentis. 
— E. ciliaris Kunth! in Humb. et Bonpl. N. Gen. 1, p. 193, t. 63. 
-Mexieo (Humb., Hænke, Liebm. 610, Schafin. 145, Bourg. 2844), 
Nova Granada ad fl. Magdalena (Karsten) et pr. Mariquita (Bonpl.) ; 
Venezuela (Moritz 1825) et pr. Caracas (Gollmer). 
Obs. Diserimen inter E. tripsacoidem et ciliarem a Kunthio allatum 
(nempe spieule $ in hoe apertz in illo clausæ) omnino m cum 
spiculæ Z in utroque anthesi aperiantur. 
