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spieule 8 medium zequantes v. subsuperantes, oblique disjungentes, 
dorso facieque glabri, marginibus crassis rufobarbati, ciliis accrescen- 
tibus summis articulo 2—3-plo brevioribus. Spicule 8 primo rufze, 
demum fuscz, versus apicem sæpius clariores, pilose : gluma I 
excepta ', superiore herbaceo-chartaceä coriacea, apice anguste 
truncatulo membranacea, dorso nune obsolete 5—7-nervis nunc apice 
tantum nervosa, a basi ad ?/, usque (praesertim versus margines) rufo- 
hirsuta, callo aeutiusculo v. acuto circumcirca rufiberbi; II^ I 
sequans, coriacea, lanceolata, aeutiuscula v. apice obtuse deltoidea, 
superne plus minus carinata, inferne convexa, 1—3-nervis, versus 
margines pilosula ; II illis paullo brevior, lineari-lanceolata, acutius- 
cula, binervis, ciliata ; IV** arista eolumná fuscä medio plus minus 
distincte flexuoso-genieulat& subulam subtortam clariorem sequante 
v. subsuperante. Palea parva, ciliata. Anthere 3—4 mm. longa. 
Spieule pedicellate sessiles subszquantes, pedicellis ?/, spieule 2 
sequantibus rufociliatis, lineari-laneeolatze, pallide v. sordide viridulz; 
gluma I^^ chartaceo-membranacea, 3—7-nervis, flexuris ciliatis, dorso 
glabra v. hirtula; II 3—5-nervis, ciliata; III, IV* decrescentes, 
ciliata; antherze 4 mm. longa. 
Subspec. a. plumosus; panicule ramis rhachique scabris. — Spicu- 
le 8 sepius lineari-oblong®, 7—8 mm. longs, sspe subcurvate. 
Arista 25—55 mm. longa, columná secus spiras breviter ciliatá. 
Var. a, genuinus; gluma I™ callo 1—2 mm. longo acuto (sspe 
pungente) curvulo. — Holcus plumosus R. Brown Prodr. p. 200; 
Sorghum plumosum Beauv. ap. Rem. et Schult. Syst. 2, p. 841; 
Benth. Fl. Austr. 7, p. 540; Andropogon australis Spreng. 1. c. sens. 
str.; A. tropicus Kunth ! Enum. 1, p. 503 non Spreng.; A. tenuipe- 
dicellatus Steud. Synops. 1, p. 393? — Laminz elongatz, anguste 
lineares, glabrz v. leviter hirtule; vaginarum superiorum nodi longe 
patentim barbati. 
Australia tropica (stationes vide ap. Benth. 1. e. ; Schultz 198, alii); 
Austral. occid. ad Ashburton River (Stuart-Carey). 
B. timorensis; callo brevissimo, obtusiusculo. — Andropog. tropicus 
var. timorensis Kunth! Révis. Gramin. t. 97; Sorghum timorense 
Büse Pl. Reinw. p. 752. — Laminæ breviores, 10—15 cm. longs, 
5—8 mm. latze, inferne pilis longis basi tuberculatis adspersz. Vagi- 
narum nodi brevissime appresseque sericeo-pilosi. Spieule lanceo- 
late. 
Ins. Timor (ex h. Paris.) ; Buru Moluecorum (ex Brogn.). 
