336 MONOCOTYLEDONEJE. ELIONURUS, 
4 mm. late, rigidule, patentissim®, subtus læves, supra margineque 
scabre, nervis lateralibus primariis utrinque 4—5 vix prominulis. 
Racemi 6—8 cm. longi, breviter peduneulati v. basi vaginati, densi- 
flori, pilosi, stramineo-virides. Rhacheos subfragilis articuli spicula 
dimidia breviores, dorso marginibusque villis densis mollibus albo- 
sericeis, superioribus articulum superantibus, vestiti. Spiculæ sessiles 
cum callo 1,5 mm. longo basi parce piloso ceterum glabro 7—8 mm. 
longze, lanceolatze : gluma I= chartaceo-herbacea, acuminata, in '/, 
superiore bifida, laciniis subulatis, perinde ac carine a basi rigide 
breviterque pectinato-eiliatis, dorso lzvissima, obsolete 7—9-nervis ; 
II^ glabra; II II?» zequans, lineari-lanceolata, glabra. Palea O. 
Stamina non vidi in spicula sessili. Pedicelli articulos subaequantes. 
Spiculæ pedicellatee 5—6 mm. longs, lineari-lanceolat®, subobliquæ ; 
gluma I™ acuminata, integra, altero margine anguste inflexo, brevis- 
sime rigideque ciliolata, altero plano searioso-marginato glabra, dorso 
glaberrima, 5-nervis; reliqua ut in spieulis sessilibus ; antherz 3 mm. 
long. 
Afriea oecid. trop. Sierra Leone (ex Trin., Benth.). Bolama (l. New- 
ton, in h. m.). 
B. Spieule sessilis gluma I™ integra v. minutissime bidentula. — Culmi ep longitscule 
nudi. Vagina subcarinat®, glabro, imæ ieh, fuscæ, nitidæ, diu persistentes. 
Ligula ad marginem angustissimum ciliolatum redacta. Lamins superne parum ang 
tatæ. Racemi longiuscule v. longe pedunculati, pilosi. Spieuls sessilis gluma I?* carinis 
cum toto dorso hirsutis, superne ciliatis, callo barbato; gluma Ilda et III: ciliolatz, 
subzquales; IV? iis paullo-t/, brevior, didt -oblonga, obtusiusenla, l-nervis, ciliata. 
Spiculæ pedicellat® sessilibus !/,—!/, breviores, pedicellis articulos zquantibus. 
7. E. latiflorus (Nees ap. Steud. Synops. 1, p. 364 ampl.); cul- 
mis simplicibus, vaginis teretiusculis, laminis anguste linearibus, ssepe 
complicatis (vi explicatis 1,5—3 mm. latis); rhacheos articulis altero 
margine dense longiusque, altero brevius barbatis, spiculis canescenti- 
pilosis. — Hack. in Mart. et Eichl. Fl. bras. 2, pars. 3, p. 307 ; Andro- 
pogon latiflorus Steud. Synops. 1, p. 364. 
Culmi 30—90 em. alti, graciles, compressi. Laminse basi in vagi- 
nam defluentes, apice obtusiuseule, culmeæ 10—30 cm., innovatio- 
num—50 em. longs, erecto-patule v. patentes, rigidule, subtus 
leves, supra margineque seabrz. Racemi 4—9 em. longi, sordide 
virides v. colore fuseo-violaceo leviter suffusi, subfragiles : articuli 
spicula sessili !/,—2-plo breviores, dorso hirtuli v. hirsuti. Spiculæ 
sessiles cum callo obovato 1,5 mm. longo dense barbato 6—7 mm. 
