ANDROPOGON.  ANDROPOGONE;E (AUCT. EDUARDO HACKEL). _ 535 
ciliata; IV? seeundá subduplo brevior, ad '/, usque bifida, e sinu 
aristam emittens validam, columna fusca. Palea minima, lanceolata. 
Antherx 2,5 mm. long&. Pedicelli steriles spicula '/, —duplo breviores, 
pennato-ciliati. 
Paraguay, in collibus saxosis (Balansa 2094). 
111. A. Minarum Kunth! Enum. 1, p. 507); panicula æqualis 
ramis (excepta basi) simplicibus ; glumæ I^** versus apicem margines- 
que pilis parcis adspersze callo 2 mm. longo acuto subeurvato; aristæ 
60—75 mm. long: valide columna secus spiras longe patentimque 
ciliata recta v. in '/, superiore subflexuosa, subulam duplo superante. 
— Trachypogon Minarum Nees! Agrost. bras. p. 349; Stipa penni- 
glumis Trin. ! in Mém. Ac. Petersb. 1830, p. 77 ; Chrysopogon stipoi- 
des Trin.! in Mém. Ac. Petersb. 1836, p. 93; Ch. Minarum Benth. 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. 19, p. 73 ; Sorghum Minarum Hack. in Mart. et 
Eichl. Fl. brasil. vol. 2, pars 3, p. 276, t. 63. 
Culmi 50—90 em. alti. Folia glaucescentia, glabra v. appresse pilo- 
sula; vagine ad nodos puberul&®; ligula brevis, auriculata, glabra ; 
lamine mediae 12—30 em. longs, 5—8 mm. latz, e basi zquilata 
lineares, planze, margine serrulato-scabr&, ceterum laeves v. scaberu- 
lee, costa media inferne erassiuscula, subtus carinante, supra latius- 
cule albo-lineata, nervis lateralibus vix prominulis. Panieula plus 
miuus exserta rarius basi vaginata, obovato-oblonga v. lineari-oblonga, 
12—25 cm. longa, densa, contracta, ramis ad singulos nodos semi- 
verticillatis. 5—7°'*, simplicibus v. primariis parce ramulosis, 1—2,5 
em. longis, omnibus filiformibus, rhachi subappressis, infra apicem 
ciliatis v. glabris, unispiculatis, cum spicula obliquissime articulatis, 
post delapsam spiculam cicatricem lineari-oblongam exhibentibus, 
imis squamula parvula ciliata fultis. Spiculæ lineari-oblong&, compu- 
tato callo 7—8 mm. longæ, compressiuseul: v. subeylindric®, inferne 
pallide tlavo-virentes, apice rufescentes v. violascentes : gluma I"* sub- 
eoriacea v. chartacea, oblonga, latiuscule truncata, margine involuta, 
dorso planiuscula, callo sericeo-barbato valde pungente, parce pilosa, 
9-nervis, nervis 2—4 percurrentibus; II^ I"? paullisper superans, ei 
similis sed 5-nervis, apice mucrone triangulari obtusiusculo setoso- 
ciliato, ceterum glabra; III* secundá '/, brevior, obovato-oblonga, 
retusa, obsolete binervis, eiliata ; IV* primá duplo brevior, bidentata - 
v. ad medium usque bifida, e sinu aristam emittens bicolorem : 
columna fusca, elegantissime spiraliterque albo-ciliata, subula flava, 
glabra. Palea minima, lanceolata. Anther 2,5 mm. long&. Pedicelli 
