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viridule, apice leviter violascentes: gluma I"* bidentula, carinis 
anguste scarioso-marginatis interdum scabro-ciliolatis, præter nervos 
carinales enervis v. obsolete binervis, dorso glabra, callo brevissime 
barbulato ; II“ marginibus glabra; IV* ad medium usque in lacinias 
2 lanceolatas ciliolatas fissa; arista perfecta 13—17 mm. longa 
(spicula 2—3-plo longior), columná fuscá quam subula pallidior !/, 
breviore. Antheræ 2 mm. longe. Spiculæ c? 7 mm. longæ, obtusius- 
cul: v. acutæ, lineari-lanceolate. 
Abyssinia (Schimper 1801 h. un. it., 1146 ann. 1855 distrib.), ich 
speciali non indicato; Ind. or., Sindh pr. Karatschi (d"* Stead in h. 
m.). — Odore saporeque acerbo, terebinthinum referente. 
158. A. Gidarba (Hamilt. in Steud. Synops. 1, p. 387) : spiculze 
9 gluma I" lineari-lanceolata 3,5 mm. longa, a '/, inferiore sensim 
acutata, carinis minime alatis nee marginatis, supra basin gibbo ear- 
tilagineo munita, ceterum chartacea-membranacea, in dorsi parte 
inferiore late excavata. 
Culmi graciles, 30—40 em. alti. Ligula 1 mm. longa, truncata. 
Lamin: e basi equilata anguste lineares, 10—15 cm. long&, 1—2 mm. 
late, rigidulze, glauco-virides, subtus glaberrim&, supra minute pube- 
rule, margine (ceterum levi) inferne pilis longis distantibus ad- 
spers®, costa media tenuicula, paucinervi, parce medullosa, supra 
anguste albolineata, nervis lateralibus paucis supra prominulis. Pani- 
cula oblonga, brevis (circ. 10 em. longa), paupera, densiuscula, ramis 
erectis glaberrimis uninodibus simplicibus (excepto verticillo imo). 
Spathz proprie anguste lanceolate 1,6—1,8 em. longe, virides, 
pedunculum communem subduplo superantes, racemos 1,2—1,5 em. 
longos sæpius 4-artieulatos sequantes. Articuli pedicellique crassi, 
lineari-clavati, spicula sessili */, breviores, dorso glabri, scabri, mar- 
ginibus subzequaliter villosis, villis summis articulo subtriplo breviori- 
bus, disjuneti apice cupulato-appendiculati, appendice dentato. 
Spiculæ sessilis 8 pallidze, gluma I™ minute bidentula, carinis scabe- _ 
rula, przeter carinas enervis, supra partem cartilagineam fovea pro- 
. funda suborbiculari impressa, callo obsolete barbato; IV* in */, supe- 
riore in lacinias 2 lineares ciliolatas fissa ; arista perfecta spieulä sub- 
quadruplo longior (14 mm. longa), columnä atro-fuscä quam subula 
flavida subbreviore. Spieule c? 4 mm. longze, leviter sordido-violas- 
centes, lanceolatz, acutæ, glabrze. Antherze 1,8 mm. longse.— Odore 
levi, terebinthino. 
India orient. in montibus Mougger (Wall. 8797). — Precedenti - 
| valde affinis, serius fortasse cum illo jungendus. 
