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ANDROPOGON.  ANDROPOGONEJE (AUCT. EDUARDO HACKEL). - 591 
sessili plus duplo breviores, albo-eiliati, ciliis summis articulo 2-plo 
brevioribus, obliquissime disjungentes. Spieule 8 cum callo recto 
pungente 1,5 mm. longo breviter albo-barbato (antice glabro) 8 mm. 
long, lineari-oblong&, semper (etiam maturz) pallide: gluma I?" 
chartacea, apice hyalino acutiuscula v. obtusiuseula, marginibus 
angustissime implicato-carinatis, carinis scabris, ceterum glaberrima, 
6-nervis, loco nervi medii suleo profundo angusto exarata, nervis infra 
apicem evanescentibus; II^ T^ æquans, lanceolato-oblonga, obtusa, 
obsolete carinata, 5-nervis, marginibus implicatis carinatis ; IIP parum 
brevior, linearis, enervis, glabra ; IV** arista valida 3—4 em. longa, 
ad ortum s:epius denticulis 2 subulatis munita, columná secus spiras 
pilis longiusculis albis ciliatá quam subula glabra recta fulva parum— 
'/, breviore. Palea 0. Anthere 3 mm. longa. Stigmata infra mediam 
spieulam exserta, stylis duplo longiora. Spiculæ pedicellat® c, lanceo- 
lat:, 8 mm. longe, pedicellis brevibus utrinque breviter ciliatis 
fulte: gluma I“ 7-nervis, prseter callum puberulum glabra; H 
anguste lanceolata, acutissima, 5-nervis, ciliata; II, IV*, parum 
breviores, lineari-oblong&, obtuse, enerves, glabr&; antherz 8 mm. 
longs. Spieule sessiles parium homogamorum g v. neutræ, iis 
parium heterogamorum similes nisi gluma IV* mutica, linearis, acuta. 
India orient. in planitie alta Dekhan ad castellum Ghooty-Hill Fort 
prope Bellari (Wight 2321 in h. Neesii nune berolin., inter A. contor- 
tum L., a quo maxime diversus). 
83. Ligula membranacea, rotundata, glabra. Aristæ columna glaber- 
rima, nitens. Callus spieule 8 brevis, obtusus (n. 149). 
149. A. oliganthus Hochstett. in Hohenack. Pl. Ind. or. n. 1288; 
Steud. Synops. 1, p. 368. 
Annuus, humilis. Culmi 10—20 cm. alti, graciles, erecti v. sspe 
inferne decumbentes et e geniculis radicantes, compressi, glaberrimi, 
simplices v. sepius e nodis inferioribus ramos floriferos solitarios - 
breves agentes. Vaginz compresse, subcarinatz, laxe, elevato- 
costatz, superne e tubereulis plus minus pilosze, basi sepe barbulatze, 
summa plerumque subspathiformis, laminze rudimentum brevissimum 
gerens. Ligula 1 mm. longa. Laminz e basi rotundata parum angus- 
tata lanceolato-lineares, acutæ, 1—3 cm. longs, 1,5—3 mm. lat, 
plane, virides, rigide, utrinque molliter pilose, pilis ssepius basi 
tubereulatis, marginibus valde incrassatis cartilagineis serrulato- 
