ANDROPOGON.  ANDROPOGONEJE (AUCT. EDUARDO HACKEL). 499 
riore concrescens 16—18 mm: longa imperfecta scabra flavida ; palea 
glumá II“ 3-plo brevior, late obovata, apice ciliata. Antherze 2,5 mm. 
longs. Stigmata stylos sequantia. Spicule pedicellate tabescentes 
lineari-oblonge 3—4 mm. longas ad glumam TI" 7-nervem pilosulam 
rudimentumque glumæ II“ redactzs, pedicellis anguste linearibus 
medio late hyalinis ceterum articulis simillimis fultze. 
Australia. Queensland et N. S. Wales (Muell., alii, conf. Benth. 1l. c.). 
Subgenus 8. SORGHUM. 
Holeus Linn. Gen. ed. 1, app. p. 352; Spec. pl. ex p. ; Amoen. 
Acad. 7, p. 186, t. 2, f. 39; Blumenbachia Kel. Descr. gram. p. 28; 
Sorghum Pers. Synops. p. 101; Benth. et Hook. Gen. pl. 3, p. 1135 
inclusa sectione Stipoide Chrysopogonis. 
Racemi subcompositi in apice culmi ramorumve panieulati, A 
vera), omnes peduneulati, 1—pauciartieulati (in A. Zollingeri mul- 
tiarticulati) ; rhacheos fragilis v. in formis cultis tenacis articuli pedi- 
cellique spicularum primariarum lineares, filiformes, dorso convexo 
y. plano sine sulco, opaci, marginibus ciliati, recte v. oblique disjun- 
gentes, disjuncti apice sine appendice eupuliformi. Spieule sessiles 
omnium parium 9, a dorso plus minus compresse (in cultis interdum 
subglobosz), aristatze, rarius mutice: gluma I"* plerumque coriacea 
(raro herbacea) marginibus infra apicem anguste implicata, inferius 
involuta, demum nitidula; II^ mutica, III* hyalina, IV* oblonga v. 
linearis (neque stipitiformis), plus minus bidentata v. bifida, e sinu 
aristam perfeetam emittens, rarissime integra, mucronata v. mutiea. 
Palea varia. Lodieule sspe eiliate. Stamina 3, rarissime (in A 
lepto) 2. Ovarium glabrum v. rarissime pilosum, stigmata lineari- 
oblonga, stylos plerumque :equantia. Caryopsis sspius obovato- 
oblonga (in cultis usque globosa) v. lineari-oblonga, a dorso com- 
pressa, facie hili planiuseula, embryonis convexa, embryone caryop- 
seos dimidium aquante v. subsuperante. Spieule pedicellate J' v. 
neutr: v. tabescentes, mutic®, interdum prorsus suppress&, relictis - 
tum solis pedicellis et ipsis interdum brevissimis. 
Gramina sepius elatiora, planifolia, laminis vernatione convolutis, 
per totum orbem, etiam hine inde in zonis temperatis, late dispersa. 
— A subgenere Amphilophi non nisi articulis pedicellisque exsuleis 
diversum, nam note relique ab auctoribus allatz nimirum inflores- 
centia, spiculze latiores, duriores, nitidze, omnes etiam in quibusdam 
Amphilophis speciebus reperiuntur. 
