382 MONOCOTYLEDONEJE. ANDROPOGON, 
glabra; III* II“= æquans, lineari-oblonga, obtusa, marginibus impli- 
catis, tenuissime 2-nervis, ciliolata; IV* secundâ '/, brevior, late 
oblonga, in '/, superiore tantum bifida, laciniis late triangularibus, 
glabra, basi tenuissime 3-nervis; arista circ. 8 mm. longa parum 
exserta, columna quam subula basi subtorta duplo breviore; palea 
glumá IV* */, brevior, lineari-oblonga, emarginata, glabra, enervis. 
Antheræ 2,5 mm. long. Pedicelli articulos zequantes, eisque simil- 
limi nisi tenuiores, apice indistincte dentati. Spieule tabescentes 
3 mm. longe, lineari-lanceolatz?s, mutiez, scaberrim&; gluma I 
acuta, 5—7 nervis, II^ parva. 
Ins. Mauritii in altis montibus (Bojer in h. Vind., Du Petit-Thouars 
in h. Kunthii [qui specimen hoc indeterminatum reliquit] nunc berol.); 
ins. Borbonis (ex Desv.). 
** Spieul® sessilis gluma I"* medio sine sulco. — Vagin® carinato-compress®. Lamins e 
basi »quilata lineares, structura in sectione solemni, p. 369 sub a descripta (n. 19—23). 
t Racemi 12—99-articulati, rhachi stricta; pedicelli spicul tab tium d berecti, recti (n. 49). 
19. A. Schottii Ruprecht ap. Hack. in Mart. et Eichl. Fl. brasil. 
vol. 2, pars 3, p. 299. 
nem graciles, dore "n. alti, miero latere applanati, ramis 
ad summis fastigiatis. 
Vagin® glaberrime. Ligula brevissima. Laminge longe acutatz, 10— 
20 em. longæ, 2—4 mm. late, glabrz v. ima basi fimbriatze, rigidule, 
excepto margine subscaberulo lzves. Spathze proprie 4—6 em. longe, 
anguste, obtusiuscule et mucronat& v. acute, peduneulum glabrum 
plerumque æquantes. Racemi 5—7 em. longi, graciles, pilosi ; articuli 
spiculam sessilem zequantes, subgraciles (apice vix 1 mm. lati), spicu- 
lam latitudine subaequantes, dorso glabri, a basi ad */, usque ciliati, 
appendice glabro inzqualiter bidentato, ipsa basi pilis articulo 4-plo 
brevioribus cincti. Spicule sessiles 7 mm. longs, pallide virides ; 
gluma I” subcoriacea, linearis, acuminata, subbimueronulata, glabra, 
intus pallide rubella, preeter carinas subobsoletas superne seaberulas 
obsolete 3-nervis, callo pilis gluma 5-plo brevioribus eineto; II acuta, 
carina elevata scaberrima, 1-nervis, ut III: ciliata; IV* fere ad basin 
usque fissa; arista cire. 15 mm. longa, columná immersä v. vix 
exsertä quam subula duplo breviore. Pedicelli articulos sequantes, 
tenuiores, ad apicem bidentulum usque bifariam plumosi; spieule 
tabescentes 3 mm. longs, anguste subulatz, aristula ipsis paullo 
usque duplo breviori terminatze, 
