394 MONOCOTYLEDONEJA. ANDROPOGON, 
villis patentibus albo-sericeis acerescentibus, summis articulo longio- 
ribus, eiliati. Spieule sessiles 4—5 mm. longs, pallide : gluma I 
lineari-oblonga, obtusa, bidentula, medio membranacea, marginibus 
incrassatis carinatis, inter carinas profunde canaliculata, przeter ner- 
vos earinales scabros binervis, parte superiore in medio longe albo- 
pilosa, callo obtuso (0,8 mm. longo) pilis gluma 2-plo brevioribus 
vestito ; He I» longitudine zequans, latitudine multo superans, char- 
tacea, obovato-cuneata, valde compresso-navicularis, carina longe 
ciliata, infra apicem brevissime bidentatum longe aristata, arista 
recta, flava, gluma 3—4-plo longiore; III: lineari-oblonga, margini- 
bus inflexis ciliata; IV» quam II? subduplo brevior, elliptica, ciliolata ; 
ariste 3,5—4,5 mm. longs glabrae columna recta v. indistincte 
geniculata scabra fusco-nigra, subulá flavà haud tortä subduplo bre- 
vior. Palea glumä IV* '/, brevior, lineari-lanceolata, enervis, glabra. 
Antherz 1,8 mm. long&. Spiculæ tabescentes pedicello articulis simil- 
limo insidentes, fertili duplo majores, rufescentes : gluma I"* herba- 
cea, falcato-obovata, plana, breviter acuminata, ultra 15-nervis, 
ciliata, infra apicem brevissime bimucronulatum aristam emittens 
rectam glumam zquantem ; II^ quam I”* duplo brevior, membrana- 
cea, ovato-lanceolata, in aristam ipsa duplo breviorem abiens ; II: 
lineari-lanceolata, I= zequans, IV: ea !'/, brevior, longe ciliata, 
mutica. Lodicule obsolet&. Stamina nulla. 
America tropica in ins. Jamaica (Swartz), Cuba (Wright 3483, 
3485), Puerto Rico (Sintenis 353), Mexico (Palmer in h. m.), Guate- 
mala (Türckheim), Nicaragua (Lévy 342), Columbia, Venezuela 
(Fendl. 1651), Peru (Commerson), Brasilia (Burchell 8725, 8781, 
Glaziou 12274, alii, cfr. Hack. in Mart. et Eichl. Fl. bras. vol. 2, 
pars 3, p. 303) ; Africa tropica : Sennaar (Kotschy 240), Abyssinia pr. 
Dseheladscheranne (Schimp. pl. un. it. nr. 2013, h. Mus. Paris. 1445); 
India orient. (Griff. 6773); in Indie or. centralis divisione Chanda 
(Duthie in h. m.); Pokhuria, Manbhum (Campbell). 
Subgen. 3. ANADELPHIA. 
Anadelphia (genus) Hack. in Engl. bot. Jahrb. 6, p. 240. 
Racemi in apice culmi ramorumque solitarii, 29—4-artieulati, rha- 
cheos fragilis articuli filiformes, oblique disjungentes, exappendieu- 
lati. Spicule ad quemvis rhacheos nodum sæpe solitarize v. ad nodos 
1—2 inferiores bin, ad summum nodum vero spicula 8 semper 
solitaria, spiculä c? terminali superata ; ubi binz, ibi sessilis 8 aris- 
