ANDROPOGON. ANDROPOGONEJE (AUCT. EDUARDO HACKEL). c 585 
cule magnæ, ovario longiores, oblong®, acute bidentate. Stamina 
modo perfecta, modo hebetata. Stigmata anguste linearia, e spiculæ 
apice exserta. Caryopsis oblonga, rufidula, erostrata. Spieule pedi- 
cellatze Z v. neutre sessilibus 2—3-plo longiores easque obtegentes, 
lanceolat®, longe subulato-acuminat®, 16—20 mm. longs, obliquis, 
contortz, virides, pedicello brevissimo fultæ: gluma I”: herbacea, 
17—19-nervis, glabra, marginibus carinato-implicatis, carinis serru- 
lato-ciliatis, altera membranaceo-marginata; IE '/,—"'/, brevior, 
lanceolata, membranacea, 3-nervis, acutissima ; III* primä duplo bre- 
vior, enervis, ciliata; IV* brevissima, linearis; palea O; lodicule 
parvulæ ; anthere 4 mm. longs v. 0. Spieulz sessiles parium homo- 
gamorum pedicellatis simillims, sed angustiores, recte, carinis non 
marginatis. — Staminum status perfectus v. hebetatus in spiculis et 
sessilibus et pedicellatis ineonstantissimus. 
Per totam zonam tropicam dispersus, hinc inde in subtropica: 
Florida (Curtiss N. Am. Pl. 3641), Georgia (Ellis), Mexico (Palmer), 
Columbia (Moritz 720), Peruvia (Spruce 4180), Brasilia (Burchell 
8777); Abyssinia pr. Dscheladscheranne (Schimp. 2012) ; Upingtonia 
in Afr. austr.-oec. (Schinz in h. prop.); India or. in Himalays bor.- 
occ. reg. trop. (Hook. f. et Thoms.), Nepalia (Royle 232 ex p. = H. 
Roylei Nees). 
145. A. contortus (Linn. Spec. ed. 1, p. 1045); vaginis spiculis- 
que d' sine scrobiculis eireumvallatis, gluma I" dorso exsulea, 
paribus homogamis in quovis racemo 2—6. - 
Perennis. Innovationes extravaginales. Culmi 40—100 em. alti, 
infra racemum scabro-puberuli, subsimplices v. saepius e nodis supe- 
rioribus subfastigiato-ramosi, superne breviter nudi v. omnino vagi- 
nati. Folia glauco-pruinosa: vagin® carinato-compress:e, glaberrimz ; 
ligula brevis, truneata, eiliolata; lamine e basi »quilata a vagina 
parum v. non distincta lineares, sepius breviter et abrupte, raro 
longiuseule acuminatz v. inferiores acutiuscule, 8—20 cm. longs, 
3—6 mm. latc, summa praesertim ramorum rudimentaria, vernatione 
convolutz, adulte plan: v. aperte canaliculatæ, suberectæ, rigide, 
basi spe parce ciliatæ et interdum supra pilis tubereulatis adspersse, 
subtus scaberule, supra, marginibusque scaberrimze, costa media 
tenui uninervi carinata sine medulla, supra cellulis bulliformibus 
tecta, nervis lateralibus non prominulis. Racemi sine aristis 4—7 em. 
longi, recti v. eurvuli; articuli inter spiculas Ọ his multoties bre- 
viores, vix callum (cui adnascuntur) superantes, obliquissime disjun- 
