ANDROPOGON.  ANDROPOGONEJE (AUCT. EDUARDO HACKEL). 579 
longitudinali levi notato glabra, nitidula, 4—7-nervis, callo pilis gluma 
5-plo brevioribus barbato; II“ membranacea, F= æquans, elliptico- 
oblonga, aeutiuscula, 3-nervis, obsolete carinata, marginibus impli- 
eatis ciliata; II I^» subzequans, lineari-lanceolata, acuta, 1-nervis, 
ciliolata, IV* qnam II“ parum brevior, basi 3-nervis, in !/,— '/, supe- 
riore bifida, lobis linearibus obtusiusculis ciliolatis; arista 7—10 mm. 
longa, pro magnitudine validiuscula, columna castanea, seabra, e 
glumis parum exserta subulam subdiscolorem basi laxe tortam sub- 
æquante. Palea pusilla. Anthere 1 mm. longs. Stigmata stylos 
æquantia, purpurea. Spicule pedicellate c, sessiles sequantes, 
elliptice v. elliptico-oblongsee, superne leviter oblique: gluma I" 
obtusiuseula v. aeutiuseula, carinis dense ciliolatis, manifeste 9—13- 
nervis, glabra; Il? eliptica, acutiuscula, 5-nervis, ciliata; III, IV’, 
parum breviores, oblongæ, obtuse, 1-nerves, ciliat®. Palea 0; 
anther& parvze. 
Ceylon pr. Pedrotalagalla 2300 m. s. m., (Thwait. 32). 
$82. Racemi nutantes, pedunculis gracilibus plus minus cernuis fulti. 
Rhacheos articuli profundius aut levius sulcati, sepe secus lineam 
mediam hyalini. — Culmi graciles, teretiusculi. Vaginarum nodi 
barbati. Lamins lineares v. lanceolato-lineares, plani, setaceo- 
acuminatz. Spicule 8 v. 9 gluma IV* stipitiformis, in aristam 
validiusculam abiens, columnä fuscä minute hirtulä medio genicu- 
latà v. flexuosá subulam scabram rectam subæquante. Palea 0, 
(n. 142, 143). 
142. A. piptatherus (Hack. in Mart. et Eichl. Fl. brasil. vol. 2, 
pars 3, p. 293); racemorum pedunculis subeapillaribus glabris; 
articulis tenerrimis medio late hyalinis; spieularum paribus 1—3 imis 
homogamis, gluma I": spieule 8 dorso exsulca, callo obtuso. 
Aunuus. Culmi 0,3—1 m. longi, e basi decumbente ascendentes v. 
erecti, subsimplices v. e nodis 1—2 superioribus ramos floriferos . 
edentes, leves. Vaginæ laxæ v. subinflatze. Ligula brevis, rotundata, 
intus pilis stipata. Lamine basi angustat®, 8—25 em. longs, 
3—-10 mm. late, flaccidulæ, patentes, virides, utrinque marginibusque 
scabra v. scaberrim:e et sæpe pilis basi minute tuberculatis mollibus 
tectæ v. secus nervos adspers®, costa media tenui uninervi supra 
anguste albo-lineata, nervis lateralibus crebris tenuissimis non pro- 
minentibus. Racemi sepius corymbosi, rarius pauci v. immo in culmi 
