ANDROPOGON.  ANDROPOGONEJE (AUCT. EDUARDO HACKEL). 391 
Anthera 1 mm. longa. Pedicelli spiculam 8 æquántes, tenuiter fili- 
formes, dense plumoso-ciliati, pilis pedicello sesquilongioribus. Spi- 
culæ tabescentes lineari-subulate 1,5—2 mm. longs, gluma I" in 
aristam ipsa 2—3-plo longiorem abiens, 3-nervis, scabra; reliqua 0. 
Ins. Haiti (Eggers 2321), Jamaica (ex Griseb.), Cuba (Wright 3484, 
1557); Inss. Bahamenses, New Providence (Eggers 4444); Florida 
austr. p. Miami (Garber in h. m.). 
25. A. eubensis (Hack. in Flora 1885, p. 121); racemis laxe 
pilosis, spieulis minime lana occultis; gluma IV* apice brevissime 
bidentula. 
Iunovationes omnes extravaginales. Culmi graciles, 50—70 em. 
alti, subcompressi, latere ramigero canaliculati, simplices v. e nodis 
1—2 superioribus ramos erectos filiformes elongatos (summo subfas- 
tigiato) simplices agentes. Vagin® teretes, elevato-costatz, glaberri- 
mæ. Ligula brevissima, rotundata, longe barbata. Laminz inferiores 
8—12 cm. longs, superiores sensim breviores, omnes filiformes, com- 
presse, diam. 0,5—0,7 mm., acutiuscule v. obtusiuscule, excepta 
basi ssepissime villosa glaberrimze, rigidule, virides, sectione trans- 
versa subtrigon&, lateribus juxta costam mediam angustissimis supra 
illam rope mi sees prune utrinque 2—3 subtus prominentibus, 
Spath& propri& cire. 5 em. 
longs, angustissimæ, acute, racemi pedunculo scaberulo plerumque 
duplo breviores. Racemi 4—5 em. longi, graciles, laxiflori, subnutan- 
tes (?), pallide virescentes, rhachi stricta v. levissime undulata ; arti- 
culi spiculam 8 subæquantes, lineari-filiformes, superne parum 
inerassati, subito in appendicem cupulatum distincte bidentatum 0,9 
mm. latum abeuntes, dorso minute hirtuli, utroque margine a '/, 
inferiore ad apicem usque pilis laxiuseulis patentibus accrescentibus, 
summis articulo plus duplo brevioribus, eiliati. Spiculæ sessiles 5— 
5,5 mm. longs, oblongo-lanceolate : gluma I"* herbaceo-chartacea, 
breviter acutata, acutiuscula, integra, margine obsolete implicata, 
carinis parum distinetis scabris, dorso plano minutissime hirtula, 5— 
7-nervis, nervis subpercurrentibus v. in '/, superiore tantum distine- 
tis, callo pilis gluma 5-plo brevioribus cincto; II^ P^ æquans, late 
lanceolata, acutissima, 1-nervis, carina scaberula, dorso minutissime 
hirtula, margine ciliolata ; II" II^" zequans, lanceolato-oblonga, acu- 
tiuscula, sub-3-nervis, marginibus implicatis ciliata, basi violascens ; 
IV: secundä paullo brevior, lineari-oblonga, 1-nervis, basi violascens, 
ciliolata, infra apicem brevissime bidentulum aristam exserens 7 mm. 
