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adspersæ, extus ad vaginæ junctionem semper sericeo-pilosæ, margine 
serrulato-scaberrimæ, costa media crassa multinervi acutiuscula supra 
late albo-lineata, nervis lateralibus non prominulis. Panicula oblonga 
v. ovato-oblonga 15—380 em. (v. plus) longa, laxa, rhachi glaberrima, 
ramis proprie vertieillatis subeapillaribus flexuosis, modo glaberrimis 
modo scabris, apice cum racemo recte artieulatis, inferioribus pani- 
cula 3—4-plo brevioribus. Racemi 1—3 cm. longi, 2—8 (ssepius 5-) 
articulati, amoene rufo-fusei : articuli pedicellique spicula sessili ple- 
rumque duplo breviores, dorso facieque glabri, marginibus pilis rigi- 
dis rufis subzequalibus articulo sæpius 3-plo brevioribus ciliati. Spieulae 
sessiles primo subfuscescentes, demum fusca v. nigra, apice semper 
clariores : gluma I" cartilaginea, infra apicem membranaceum 
anguste truncatulum marginibus breviter subimplieata, obsolete 5- 
nervis, dorso superne et versus margines rufo-hirsuta, apice et dorso 
medio glabra; II“ P^ subsuperans, lanceolata, acuta v. mucronata, 
superne pilosa, 1 nervis; palea glumæ IV” parva, ovarium vix supe- 
rans. Antherze 2 mm. longa. Spicule pedicellatz sessiles æquantes 
sed angustiores, lanceolat®, multo pallidiores, brunneo-viridulz, tote - 
breviter hirtulz : gluma I** acuta, 7-nervis, II“ lanceolata, 3-nervis, 
III: et IV" lineares, decrescentes, ciliatze. Antherz ut in spicula 2 v. 
raro 0. 
Var. a, genuinus; spicule 8 gluma IV* biloba, e sinu aristam 
10—20 mm. longam gracilem emittens, columnà glabrá castaneä 
medio geniculatä subulam aquante. — A. serratus Thunb. s. str. non 
Retz. ; A. laxus Willd. ! Spec. 4, p. 907; A. tropicus Spreng. Syst. 1, 
p. 287 non Kunth.; A. diehroanthus Steud.! in Zolling. Syst. Verz. 
p. 58; Holeus fulvus R. Brown, Prodr. p. 199; Sorghum fulvum 
Beauv. ap. Roem. et Schult. Syst. 2, p. 840: S. Junghuhnii Miqu. Fl. 
Ind. bat. 3, p. 753, anne potius ad var. 8. spectans ? 
Japonia pr. Nagasaki (Thunb. in h. Willd., alii); China pr. Canton 
et Amoy (Hance 1394), ad fl. Peiho ex Debeaux, Kiukiang (David ex 
Franch.); in ins. Amboina (Doleschall); Java (Zolling. 373); Nicobar. 
ins. Teressa (Kamphóv.); in Australia tropica (conf. Benth. Fl. Austr. 
7, p. 541), Nova Guinea (Port Moresby, 1. Macfarlane ex Muell.). Cete- 
rum in subvarietates 2 dispescendus : 1. parviflorus, spiculis vix 4mm. 
longis ; 2. major, spiculis 5—6 mm. longis. Hzec ultima, przecipue in 
Australia tropica, in ins. Amboina crescens, transitum indigitat ad 
A. australem var. levirameum, sed differt panicule ramis 6—12"* 
capillaribus. 
ß, nitidus ; spieule 9 gluma IV” integra, mutica. — Holcus nitidus 
