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cula 10—40 cm. longa, linearis, laxa, ssepius paupera, basi sæpe 
interrupta, ramis solitariis—4"*, primariis 1—5-nodibus, nodis supe- 
rioribus approximatis, BERN, TEEN basilares solitarios 
usque ad 4"** gi tibus, omnibus striet , rhachi fere parallelis. 
Spathe pr oprize 2 cem. long, rufe, pedunculum communem duplo 
superantes, racemos 1,5—2 em. longos non zquantes. Horum alter 
2—3-, alter 4—5-articulatus, uterque demum ad perpendiculum 
deflexus. Articuli pedicellique spiculam 8 mediam zequantes v. sub- 
superantes, lineares, crassi, disjuneti apice obsolete cupulati, appen- 
dieulo integro. Spiculæ sessiles 8 5—6 mm. longs, lanceolatz v. 
lineari-lanceolatz, fere a '/, inferiore acutatze, pallide virides ; gluma 
I"* integra, carinis non marginatis lzevibus, przeter carinas distincte 
—5-nervis, nervis pereurrentibus, dorso plano glabra, callo brevis- 
sime barbulato ; II“ cariná levis, przeter carinam enervis v. 4-nervis; 
IV: integra, emarginata v. biloba, plus minus ciliata, mutica v. aris- 
tata. Antherze 2,5 mm. longs. Spicule pedicellat® sessiles sub- 
tequantes, plerumque ad glumam I^» subulato-acuminatam convolutam 
II*»que illa duplo breviorem redacta, raro (ex Benth.) mascula. — 
Odore saporeque acerbo, terebinthino. 
Variat spieulis muticis, v. imperfecte breviterque, v. perfecte aris- 
tatis, arista 11 mm. longa, columnä fuscä subulam pallidam æquante ; 
cum nulli alii characteres has variationes gradatim mutatas comiten- 
tur, varietates nominatim distinguere nolui. 
Nova Hollandia bor., or., austral. variis locis, cfr. Benth. l. c. 
(Sieber 54); in insulis Nova Caledonia (Balansa 889), Tahiti (ex 
Hook.), Aneitum (leg.?), Vitiensibus (Seemann 685). Etiam in Molue- 
corum insula Borabora (Diedrichsen in h. Havn.). 
B. Racemorum peduneulus communis cum racemis e vagina summa non cymbiformi anthesi 
iuscule exsertus ; racemi semper erecti, non panieulati. Laminæ innovationum basi 
in petiolum filiformem circ. 1 cm. longum contracts; ligula 4—7 mm. longa, lineari- 
acuminata, in foliis eulmeis ad latera herbacea in vaginam decurrens (161). 
161. A. lividus Thwaites Enum. pl. Zeyl. p. 367. 
Innovationes mixtz, plerzeque intravaginales. Culmi erecti, 40—60 
cm. alti, subrobusti, teretes, ad nodos pruinosi, e nodis 1—3 supe- 
rioribus ramos breves sæpissime solitarios (raro binos) simplices uni- 
nodes gignentes. Vagin® innovationum dense aggregatze, basin versus 
dilatatæ, superne constriete, compresse; culmez teretes, superne 
 Subinflate, internodiis multo breviores, omnes glaberrim&, emortus 
