392 MONOCOTYLEDONEE. ANDROPOGON. 
longam, columná immerså 1—2-spira quam subula basi subtorta plus 
duplo breviore. Palea 0. Antherz 3, 2,5 mm. long. Pedicelli artieu- 
lis simillimi nisi tenuiores, cum spicula tabescente arcuato-patentes, 
villis ipsis 3—4-plo brevioribus eiliati. Spiculæ tabescentis 2,5 mm. 
long: subulato-lanceolat& gluma I™ scabra, 3-nervis, mucronato-acu- 
minata, II“ pusilla. 
Cuba (Wright 3898). 
Species hujus subgeneris dubie : 
A. microstachyus Desv. in Hamilt. prodr. p. 8; Pollinia mieros- 
tachya Desv. Opusc. p. 70 : eulmi elati 3—5-pedales, compressi ; 
laminæ distichze latiusculz elongate, glabra, striatze, rigide, margine 
rugose; vaginz ancipites, glabrz; ligula brevissima truncata uno 
latere subpilosa; panicula ramosissima, conferta; racemi graciles, 
subpollicares, spatha compressa apice subulata semiinelusi, rhachi 
- pilosa, arista floris sterilis brevis, floris fertilis elongata, tortilis. — 
Crescit in Antillis. 
Pollinia fulta Desv. Opusc. p. 69; culmi elati apice dichotomo- 
ramosi glabri; folia margine aspera, glabra; vagins ore ciliatz; 
racemi spatha subinclusi; rhachis sparse pilosa; spiculæ pedicellatze 
breviuscule aristatz pedicellus complanatus margine barbatus, floris 
fertilis arista medio tortilis elongata. — Crescit in India or.? — 
Andropogoni fragili Brown dicitur affinis; an A. Pseudograya Steud ? 
Anatherum pedunculosum Desy. Opusc. p. 70 : culmi bipe- 
dales, glabri, apice fasciculato-ramosi, ramis longis basi vaginatis, 
folia glabra; ligula brevis subtruncata ; racemi semipollicares, soli- 
tarii, glabri, terminales, spicule appress®, acutæ, steriles pedicello 
filiformi. — Crescit in Antillis. — An revera hujus subgeneris ? Spi- 
eule muticze, 
Subgenus 2. Drecrowirs. 
Hack. in Mart. et Eichl. Fl. bras. vol. 2, pars 3, p. 303 excl. spec.; 
Diectomis (genus) Humb. et Bonpl. ap. Willd. Spec. 4, p. 741; Kunth 
in Mém. Mus. 2 (1815), p. 69 (char. reform.); Nees, Agrost. bras. 
p. 339, non Beauv. Agrost. 
