ANDROPOGON,  ANDROPOGONEJE (AUCT. EDUARDO HACKEL). 565 
nentibus. Panicula 15—26 cm. longa, erecta, densa; ejus rami 4*i—8i, 
capillares, erecto-patuli, glaberrimi, breviores simplices, longiores 
ramulos 1—4 alternos gerentes, in parte superiore panicule rami 
brevissimi, dense conferti, in inferiore laxiores, omnes apice subin- 
crassati, cum spicula oblique articulati, articulatione ciliata. Racemi 
qui ramulos breves terminant spiculam 8 unam, qui longiores termi- 
nant spiculas 2—3 continentes, articulis spicula sessili paullo—duplo 
brevioribus, obliquissime disjungentibus, glaberrimis. Spieule 9 cum 
callo 2 mm. longo antice glabro postice et ad latera pilis albis 2—4 mm. 
longis barbato 7 mm. long&, lineari-oblongz, pallidze: gluma I™ coria- 
cea, a '/, inferiore sensim acutata, minute bidentula, late involuta, 
preterea ab apice ad medium usque bicarinata, carinis muricatis, 
ceterum levis, enervis v. obsoletissime nervosa; II® oblonga, obtu- 
siuscula, ex apice aristam ipsa breviorem exserens, ciliolata; II lan- 
ceolata, acuta, enervis; IV* secundä '/, brevior, linearis, glabra, inter 
apicis dentes breves aristam emittens 6—10 mm. longam gracillimam 
pallidam. Palea glumä IV* duplo brevior, linearis, glabra, enervis. 
Styli stigmatibus multo breviores. Spicule œg lanceolate, 7 mm. 
long&, pallidze, glabrze: gluma I™ acuta, 5-nervis, lzevis; I“ mucro- 
nata, 3-nervis, marginibus hyalinis implicatis ciliata ; III*, IV*, paullo 
breviores, oblong&, tenuissime 3-nerves, ciliatze; palea duplo brevior, 
linearis. Antherz 3,5 mm. longz. 
Australia bor. (Albert River l. Landsborough, alii); Queensland 
(ex Benth.). 
Var. filipes (Benth. l. c. p. 539) foliis angustioribus, panicula 
laxiore sepe breviore, ramis longioribus, filiformibus, aristis sub- 
longioribus, in iisdem regionibus a variis botanicis lectus, a me non 
visus est. 
Hujus subgeneris species inextricabiles: 
A. depauperatus Kunth Revis. Gram. 1, p. 166 (Pollinia depau- 
perata Spreng. pug. 2, p. 11), e Bengalia. 
A. fulvus Spreng. pug. 2, p. 8, e Bengalia (Minus certe ad 
Chrysopogones relatus). 
