ANDROPOGON.  ANDROPOGONEÆ (AUCT. EDUARDO HACKEL). 563 
pallidæ : gluma I™ chartacea, a medio sensim acuminato-acutata, ipso 
apice angustissime truncatula et interdum bimucronulata, dorso 
superne scabra, inferne lævis, 2—3-nervis; II® lanceolata, acuminata 
v. breviter setigera, 1-nervis; II lineari-oblonga, obtusiuscula, 
binervis; IV* IIT» æquans, linearis, membranacea, glabra v. superne 
ciliolata, ex apice integro aristam emittens 4—7 mm. longam scabram 
flavidam. Palea glumä IV* plus duplo brevior, linearis, obtusa, 
enervis, glabra. Antheræ vix 1 mm. longæ. Stigmata. late plumosa, 
rufescentes, stylos plus duplo superantia. Pedicelli spicula sessili '/, 
breviores, lineares, glabri, scabri. Spiculze J 5—6 mm. longz, subu- 
lato-lanceolat&, glabra, violaceze raro pallidze : gluma I^* 3-nervis, in 
aristam ipsa pluries breviorem acuminata ; II“ paullo brevior, acumi- 
nata, 3-nervis, ciliata; HP, IV* breviores, 2—1-nerves, ciliata; palea 
parva, cuspidata; antherz 2 mm. longs. 
Ins. Mauritius (Sieb. 49); India or.: Bengalia (Hook. f. et Thoms.), 
Peninsula (Wight 1674, Griff. 6813), pr. Mangalur (Hohenack. 587), 
Ceylon (leg.?, in h. Lindl.), ins. Nicobares (Kurz), Malacca (Griff.), 
Singapur (Jagor), China (Meyen), pr. Hongkong (Hance 383), inss. 
Lutschu (ex Hook. et Arn.), Philippinze (Cuming 555), Luzon (Hzenke), 
Java (Zolling. 54, 539), Timor (Gaudich.), Australia ? (Sieber Agros- 
totheca 93), ins. Marianne (taudich.), Nova Caledonia (Balansa), 
Nove Hebridz, Viti, Societatis, Marquesas, Wallis Island etc. (ex 
Seemann), Oahu (Chamisso). 
Obs. Spicule maturz tactu facile secedentes propter callum acicu- 
latum per braceas in cutem ambulantium penetrantes molestissim:e. 
130. A. argutus (Steud. Synops. 1, p. 391); spieule 8 gluma 
I^ callo brevi (reliqua gluma 4-plo breviori) obtuso recto breviter 
fulvo-barbato, panicule ovato-oblongze ramis imis panicule medium 
squantibus, racemis 4—6-artieulatis, articulis pedicellisque spiculam 
sessilem subzequantibus remote hispidulis. — Rhaphis arguta Nees! 
ap. Steud. l. c. Chrysopogon aciculatus var.? 8. elatior Benth. Fl. 
Austral. 7, p. 538?; Ch. argutus Trin. ap. Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, 
= p. 360. 
Culmi erecti, ultra 70 em. alti, compressi, simplices, glaberrimi. 
Vagine carinato-compressee, arctze, glaberrimze, internodiis breviores. 
Ligula in seriem ciliorum brevissimorum soluta. Laminse medie 
5—10 em. longs, 3—4 mm. late (summa 0,5 cm. longa), e basi 
iequilata lineares, acutiusculs, rigidulze, glabrze, marginibus et nervo 
medio subtus spinuloso-serratis, ceterum læves, costa media tenui 
