ANDROPOGON.  ANDROPOGONEJE (AUCT. EDUARDO HACKEL). 461 
carina scaberula, non gibba, margine glabra, 1-nervis, infra apicem 
aristam exserens patulam ipsá '/,—duplo breviorem ; III: primá '/, bre- 
vior, lineari-oblonga, obtusa, enervis, glabra ; IV* seeundá duplo bre- 
vior, oblonga, glabra, ad medium usque in lacinias duas setaceo-subu- 
latas fissa, ex fissura exserens aristam gracilem 10—12 mm. longam, 
columnä rectä glaberrimá subulam scabram subsuperante. Palea bre- 
vissima, truncata; antheræ minutissim&, hebetatze. Stigmata lineari- 
oblonga. Spiculze pedicellat: 7 mm. long, triglumes, masculæ, livi- 
de v. viridule, lineari-lanceolatze, rectc, sine squamula basilari, 
glabræ : gluma I^ acuminata, 5—7-nervis, nervis intermediis brevi- 
bus, apice minute bimucronulata ; II“ lanceolata, acutissima, 3-nervis, 
sepe mucronulata ; II: I" z:equans, lanceolata, tenuissime 3-nervis, 
marginibus implicata ; IV* et palea deficientes; antherz 3 mm. longe. 
Fernando Po, ad 2700—3000 m. alt. s. mare (G. Mann 1425). — 
Habitu atque characteribus spicularum A. amethysteo similis, sed 
racemis 3—4"'®, spieulis c? mutieis, etc., differt, et inter omnes Andro- 
pogoneas culmo uninodo insignis. 
Obs. A. ternatus subsp. eriostachyus e subsectione $ 1, cujus gluma 
II? aristula brevi terminatur, si forte inter subsect. $ 2 quaeritur, a 
praecedente racemis longe villosis, spiculis pedicellatis tabescenti- 
bus, ete., facile distinguendus. 
b. Spicule pedicellate masculze gluma I** longius aristata. — Culmi glaber- 
i. emi bini, rarissime (casu) tertio aucti. Spiculæ sessilis gluma 
I»* herbacea, dorso plana v. secus nervum medium levissime impressa, 
5—7 —multinervis, nervo medio reliquis breviore v. interdum obsoleto ; 
IIda chartaceo-membranacea, ovato- v. lanceolato-navic ularis, carina 
supra medium s:pius sinuata, 3-nervis, nervis lateralibus margini valde 
approximatis interdum subobsoletis, margine ciliata v. villosa, inter 
apicis dentes aristam ipsam plerumqu uantem rarius ea iaio bre- 
viorem emittens; III* secundä paullo brevior, hyalina, oblonga, obtusa, 
marginibus iorpliontié ciliatis, binervis; IV* Wi branAGOA, secundá !/s 
de 
glumá multo brevior. Stigmata late oblonga, purpurea. Spiculæ pedicel- 
late pedicello complanato-compresso articulo simillimo insidentes, lan- 
ceolat® v. oblong® : gluma I== multinervis, Ida 3-nervis, acuta, III* 
ut in spicul. 8, IV* am subsquans, 1-nervis (n. 77 —83). | 
a. Perennes. Culmi erecti, simplices, plerumque 3-nodes, graciles, teretes v. compressiusculi, 
altero latere interdum aplanati nec sulcati, substriatuli. Vaginæ teretes arctæ (u. 77—79). 
77. A. distachyus (Linn. Spec. ed. 1, p. 1046); ligula brevi, 
