ANDROPOGON, ANDROPOGONER (AUCT. EDUARDO HACKEL). 459 
paullo brevior, linearis, obtusa, hyalina, enervis, glabra; antheræ 
3 mm. longæ. Spiculæ pedicellatæ lineari-lanceolatæ, purpurascentes, 
ad basin glumæ II** squamula fulciente minuta emarginata munitæ : 
gluma I" herbaceo-membranacea, acuta, marginibus angustissime 
implieatis, carinis setoso-ciliolatis, ex apice minute bidentato aristam 
exserens eam subaquantem, nervis 7—9 insquidistantibus percursa ; 
^ Jm gquans, late lanceolata, acuta, 3-nervis, ciliolata, brevius 
aristata; Ie I*» zequans, acuminata, binervis ; IV* acuta, 1-nervis, 
utraque ciliata ; palea iis parum brevior, obtusa, glabra; antheræ 
2,5 mm. long&. 
Africa austro-oceidentalis tropica : prope Oshando in republica 
Upingtonia leg. D" H. Schinz. — Pracedenti affinis, sed omnibus 
partibus robustior, brevius aristatus, gluma IV* non gibba, ete., ete. 
75. A. Pohlianus (Hack. in Mart. et Eichl. Fl. brasil. vol. 2, 
pars 3, p. 304, t. 69); spicula pedicellata c 4-glumi paleata, quam 
sessilis sesquilongiore, ejus gluma I^* 17—19-nervi minute mucronata. 
Culmi robustissimi, 1,8—2,8 m. alti, teretes, striatuli, glaberrimi, 
ramos floriferos singulos—ternos agentes, ramis primariis 1—3-nodi- 
bus secundarios breves procreantibus. Vaginz teretes, glaberrimæ. 
Ligula breviter protracta (2 mm. longa), obtusa, biauriculata, fusca. 
Lamins e basi angustata lanceolato-lineares, in acumen longissimum 
subcapillare attenuatze, —60 cm. longs, 1,5 em. lat, rigidule, gla- 
bra, scaberule, demum rufescentes, costa media inferne crassissima 
plurinervi medullosa supra late albo-lineata. Racemi erecto-patuli a 
vagina summa sepius spathiformi plus minus remoti rarius basi vagi- 
nati, crassiusculi, 5—6 em. longi, virides : articuli pedicellique spicu- 
le sessilis medium superantes, crassi, disjuneti apice oblique cupu- 
lato-appendiculati, cupula pedicelli extus bidentata, utrinque dense 
pectinato-eiliati, ciliis rigidulis articulo */,—duplo brevioribus. Spiculæ 
sessiles 5 mm. longs, a latere vise semilanceolate, pallidze : gluma 
I" herbacea, linearis, obtusissima, integra, marginibus latissime 
inflexis (sese intus tangentibus) inter carinas scabras profunde cana- 
liculato-depressa, dorso glabra, obsolete 4-nervis, callo brevi obtuso 
pilis brevibus (1,5 mm. longis) barbato ; II“ subchartacea, explanata 
elliptica, navieulari-compressa, carina scabra, margine ciliata, infra 
apicem obtusum bidentulum aristam curvulam ipsa 2—3-plo brevio- 
rem exserens; II II^» subsquans, oblonga, binervis, marginibus 
inflexis ciliolatis; IV* quam II® !/, brevior, oblonga, dorso vix v. non 
gibba, uninervis, glabra, infra apicem breviter obtuseque bilobum 
