342 MONOCOTYLEDONER. - ELIONURUS, 
crassus, breviuseule pedunculatus, strictus v. leviter falcatus, olivaceo- 
 Stramineus et leviter violascenti-variegatus. Rhacheos subtenacis arti- 
culi spicula sessili duplo breviores, erassiuseuli, lineares, suboblique 
disjungentes, disjuneti ad cicatricem non marginati nee appendiculati, 
toto dorso marginibusque ambis inferne breviter et appresse, superne 
longe et patentim villosi, villis sericeis, superioribus articulo duplo 
longioribus. Spieulz sessiles eum callo angusto oblongo 1 mm. longo 
brevibarbi (aristis non computatis) 7 mm. long&, ovato-lanceolatz ; 
gluma I": acuminata, in aristas 2 porrectas circ. 2,5 mm. longas sca- 
bras basi longe ciliatas abiens, utraque carina incrassata serie tuber- 
culorum circ. 12 apice fasciculo pilorum erecto-patentium glumæ 
diametrum superantium ornatorum obsita, dorso appresse hirtula, 
subdistinete 3-nervis; II“ lanceolata, acuta, carina depressa, dorso 
pubescens, subtrinervis, marginibus implicatis ciliolatis; II 1%“ 
sequans, late lineari-oblonga, obtusa, emarginata, binervis, margini- 
- bus late implieatis ciliolata ; IV” '/, brevior, lanceolata, acuta, 1-ner- 
vis, glabra. Stigmata flavescenti-rufidula. Pedicelli altero tantum 
margine barbati; spieule pedicellate 5—6 mm. longs, oblique lan- 
ceolatze; gluma I^* acuminata, integra, arista 2,5 mm. longa, altero 
margine latiuscule implicata carina superne alata dense ciliata, altero 
plana, glabra, 4-nervis, parce oleifera, anthesi non patens?; I“ 
ovato-lanceolata, III* et IV: decrescentes, obtusæ, enerves. 
Africa tropica : Nupe ad fl. Niger (Barter in exped. Baikieana n. 
1176). 
14. E. elegans (Kunth! Revis. Gram. p. 361, tab. 94) ; annuus ; 
racemis a vagina summa plus minus longe remotis, spiculæ sessilis 
gluma I"* aristis 2 setaceis gluma 2—4-plo brevioribus terminata ; 
laminis mucronato-acuminatis przeter basin fimbriatam glabris, rha- 
cheos articulis apice appendice scarioso liguliformi. — Andropogon 
elegans Gay ap. Steud. Synops. 1, p. 364. 
Culmi erecti, 40—70 em. alti, infra nodos plus minus barbati, 
simplices v. sepius e nodis 1—2 superioribus ramum floriferum 
singulum elongatum s&pe fastigiatum edentes. Vaginz teretiusculz, 
arctz, glabrz v. inferne pilosul&, ore ciliatze, internodiis multo bre- 
viores, summa aphylla. Ligula pilis stipata. Lamin:z sensim angus- 
tat», 5—12 em. longe, 1—2 mm. late, plane, flaceidule, patuls, 
virides, excepto margine scabro leves v. supra scaberule, nervis 
lateralibus haud prominulis. Racemi 4-5 em. longi, longe pedun- 
culati, leviter faleati, erassiuseuli, olivaceo-straminei. Rhacheos 
