616 . ` MONOCOTYLEDONEJE. ANDROPOGON. 
diu persistentes culmi basin dense tunicantes. Laminæ lanceolato- 
lineares, 4—9 cm. longæ, 2—3 mm. latæ, (superiores brevissimæ), 
firmulæ, scaberulæ, margine scabræ, supra glaucæ, subtus virides, 
costa media tenui uninervi (non medullosa), in parte petioliformi 
crassa plurinervi, nervis lateralibus parum prominulis. Racemi a 
spatha propria angusta subherbacea 4—5 em. longa plus minus remoti, 
3—4 cm. longi, erassiusculi, 6—8-articulati, articuli pedicellique 
spicula 8 duplo breviores, crassiusculi, lineari-subclavati, dorso mar- 
ginibusque acerescendo-villosi, villis summis articulo 2-plo breviori- 
bus, disjuneti apice oblique cupulati, appendiculo irregulariter biden- 
tato. Spiculæ sessiles 7 mm. longze, lineari-oblong&, a medio acutat®, 
livide violascentes: gluma I™ chartacea, acute bidentata, carinis 
supra medium anguste alatis lævibus v. scaberulis, præter nervos 
carinales binervis, nervis subpercurrentibus superne sæpius duobus 
brevibus interioribus auctis, dorso plana, callo brevissime parceque 
barbulato; II® 3-nervis, carina vix alata lævi v. scabra ; IV* laciniis 
lanceolatis eiliolatis, arista perfecta spiculam ipsius longitudine supe- 
rans, (10 mm. longa), columnä fuscá, inclusá, quam subula plus 
duplo breviore. Antherz 1,8 mm. longs. Spiculz 5 fertiles equantes, 
lineari-lanceolatz;e, acutz, livide violascentes: gluma I" 9—11-ner- 
vis, II“ 5-nervis, glabra; II: binervula, ciliata; anthere 3 mm. 
longz. — Odore levi. 
Ceylon pr. Nuera Ellia in elatioribus provinciz centralis (Thwait. 
953); Peninsula Ind. or. in montibus Nilagiri (Perrott. 1313); pr. 
. Utacamand ad 2400 m. alt. (Gamble). 
b. Spicul: pedicellate G', cum gluma IV*. Planta inodora. 
162. A. glabriusculus Hochst. in Schimp. pl. Abyss. un. it. 
1805; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2, p. 468; Hyparrhenia glabriuscula 
Andera. in Schweinf. Beitr. z. Fl. Aethiop. p. 310. 
. Culmi 40—50 em. alti, graciles. Vaginæ teretes, arctæ, glaberrimæ, 
internodiis breviores. Ligula brevissima (1 mm. longa), truncata, 
membranacea, ciliolata. Laminæ e basi æquilata lineares, 10—15 cm. 
longæ, 2—3 mm. latæ, rigidæ, glaucescentes, utrinque scabr& v. 
scaberulæ, margine scaberrimæ, inferne nonnunquam pilis longius- 
culis adspersæ, costa media tenui uninervi supra anguste albo-lineata, 
nervis lateralibus subtus prominulis. Panicula 8—10 em. longa, erecta, 
paupera, ramis solitariis v. binis, brevibus, erectis, uninodibus. Spathie 
