360 MONOCOTYLEDONER. ANDROPOGON. 
nodum bins v. obliterata spicula primaria raro solitarie, uniflore : 
primaria pedicellata ssepius c, rarius neutra v. O, pedicello solo 
relicto, rarissime 8,a dorso compressa, glumä IV* muticä; secunda- 
ria sessilis, 8 v. raro in spiculis inferioribus c, rarissime 9 , ssepius 
a dorso plus minus compressa, demum cum rhacheos articulo accum- 
bente decidens, sæpissime e gluma IV: aristata. Gluma I^* marginibus 
tem infra apicem plus minus implicata, inde bicarinata, in spiculis 
8 semper mutica; II carinata, mutica v. rarius aristata ; IM" hya- 
lina, vacua; IV* saltem basi hyalina, varia, in spiculis sessilibus 
sepius aristata; palea varia, interdum 0. Lodicul® euneatze. Stamina 
1—3. Caryopsis varia. 
Genus vastum, polymorphum, habitu valde varium, per totum 
orbem, prsecipue per zonam tropicam, late dispersum. Folia basi 
nunquam cordata, sepius angusta, linearia v. lanceolato-linearia. 
Rhacheos articuli pedicellique spicularum primararium ssepius ciliati 
v. villosi. 
CONSPECTUS SUBGENERUM. 
. Series A. Isozver. Spiculz sessiles omnium parium, etiam infimi, in 
omnibus racemis sexu, forma, armisque inter se congruentes. 
Racemi in apice culmi ramorumve interdum in paniculam spuriam foliosam collectorum 
a. Bhacheos articuli erassiuseuli, disjuneti apice appendice searioso oblique eupuliformi 
v. ligulato inzqualiter dentato coronati. Gluma IVa ssepius profunde bifida, e sinu 
aristata. 
1° Gluma Ida mutica v. setula brevi terminata; spiculæ powers — = 
rumque moia, e Wine. er 
29 Gluma II4 4 2171 1 1 
p " s Diectomis. 3 4: 
Ls 
RERE 
1° Spiculæ ad rhacheos 3t atlalte nodos iwp, ad summum 
semper, solitariæ, pedicellat& ipsoque pedicello deficiente, ter- 
minalis mascula iouis 
Rhart ‚di 3amoh 
wr 
TIERE RR at 3. Anadelphia. 5%: 
2 Spieul: ad 3 ual od x : y 
: Rscemi i in apice culmi ramorumye bini, digitati, peitivclati, panicula 
tum vera, nec foliis intercepta. 
a. Racemorum, ubi bini, alter sessilis, alter breviter pedunculatus, 
ubi plures, aut omnes sessiles aut primarii breviter peduneulati, 
a Best 
* Ovarium gisbtum, styli stigmata circ. »quantes. Racemi, u 
nculati 
omnes 
B. NaN omnes plus minusve podeu. 
4. Hypogynium.- 34 f B 
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