592 MONOCOTYLEDONEA. ANDROPOGON., 
scaberrimæ, costa media crassiuscula uninervi non carinata supra 
anguste albolineata, nervis lateralibus paucis distantibus non promi- 
nulis. Racemus pedunculo gracili piloso vaginam spathiformem non 
y. parum excedente hyponastico fultus, demtis aristis 1,5—1,8 em. 
longus, crassiusculus, e viridi et sordide violaceo variegatus, extus 
glaber : articuli pedicellique spiculæ sessilis medium superantes, sub- 
oblique disjungentes, pilis albis acerescentibus (summis articulo sub- 
duplo brevioribus) dense ciliati. Spicularum par imum homogamum, 
neutrum, reliqua paria 5—8 heterogama ; harum spicula sessilis 9 
4 mm. longa, oblonga: gluma I“ coriaceo-chartacea, apice late trun- 
cata, marginibus anguste involuta, subenervis v. infra apicem breviter 
binervis, sulco medio haud percurrente impressa, versus margines et 
apicem breviter pilosula, ceterum nitens, callo pilis gluma 5-plo bre- 
vioribus barbato; IE I »quans, membranaceo-chartacea, ovali- 
oblonga, obtusissima, obsolete carinata, 1-nervis, glabra; II ', 
brevior, oblonga, ac enervis, glabris: iy^ | MA validiuseula 
3—4 em longa, eolumnáà atro-fuseá latá et ssepe 
varie flexuosá subulam scabram rufescentem aquante v. subsupe- 
rante. Palea parvula. Anthere 1 mm. longs. Spicule pedicellat® 
neutræ, sessiles subsuperantes, ovali-oblongze : gluma I”: herbacea, 
truncata, subemarginata, carinis scabra, dorso plana exsulca, mani- 
festissime 9—13-nervis, glabra v. versus basin pilis parcis se 
II“ '/, brevior, oblonga, obtusa, 3-nervis, glabra. Reliqua 0. 
India orient. in montibus Nilagiri prope Kaity (Hohenack. n. €.); 
Perottet n. 1258. 
Obs. Species inter Heteropogones et Dichantia ambigens, propter 
spiculas sessiles a pedicellatis forma, nervatione, sulco dorsali etc. 
diversas Heteropogonibus propior. 
Subgenus 13. CYMBOPOGON. 
Nees Fl. Afr. austr. p. 109; Benth. et Hook. Gen. pl. 3, p. 1134; 
Cymbopogon (genus) Spreng. pug. 2, p. 14 (excl. mult. spec.); TT 
distachyophorum Gren. et Godr. Fl. Fr. 3, p. 469. 
acemi subcompositi interdum ad spiculas 3 redacti in apice cui 
ramorumque gemini, vagina spathiformi ssepissime fulti v. obtecti, 
alter subsessilis, alter plus minus pedicellatus, 1—multiarticulati, arti- 
culis dorso convexis exsulcis, marginibus acutis. Racemi subsessilis V- 
utriusque racemi spicularum par imum v. paria 2 (rarissime 7—9) infe- — | 
