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demum abrupte acuminata, dorso obtuse carinata, 3-nervis, glabra 
v. pubescens; IIT IV“ partem coriaceam æquans, late lineari- 
oblonga, obtusissima, enervis, ciliata; IV? basi hyalina, dein incras- 
sata, apice in lacinias 2 membranaceas lineari-subulatas ciliatas fissa, 
e sinu aristam emittens validissimam 8 cm. longam. Caryopsis clavato- 
oblonga, obtusa, utrinque convexa, subcostata. Spieule pedicellatæ 
pedicellis linearibus 5 mm. longis breviter rufo-ciliatis fultæ, lanceo- 
late, 18—16 mm. longæ; gluma I™ in aristam 4—5 mm. longam 
rectam basi sæpe dente membranaceo auctam abiens, marginibus late 
carinato-implicatis, glaberrima, 14—16-nervis; II“ acuta, 3-nervis, 
marginibus implicatis ciliatis ; III* obtusa, 3-nervis, retrorsum ciliata ; 
IV* brevior, 1-nervis, ciliata; anthere 6—7 mm. longs. Spieule 
involucrantes lineari-oblong&, 14—16 mm. longe, sæpe livide violas- 
centes, altera cujusque paris pedicellulo 1 mm. longo glabro fulta : 
gluma I^ in '/, superiore latior, neutiuaculas integra v. minute biden- 
tula, coriaceo-chartacea, ginib carinato-implicatis, 
carina altera anguste mliia alita. glaberrima, nitens, 7—11- 
nervis ; reliqua eadem ae in spieulis pedicellatis. 
Abyssinia : in regione summa montis Scholada (Schimp. n. e.). — 
Racemis binis a Themedis diversus, speciebus sequentibus certe affi- 
nior. 
tt Spieule € gluma I=* truncata, erostris (177—484). 
9 Ligula longissima (13—18 mm. longa (177). 
177. A. monatherus A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2, p. 462; 
Hyparrhenia monathera Aschers. et Schw. in Schweinf. Beitr. z. Fl. 
Aethiop. p. 310. 
(Descr. ex Rich.) Perennis, cæspitosus. Culmi 60 em. alti, glabri, 
glauci. Vagin® laxiusculz, glabrz. Ligula membranacea longissima 
truncata subdenticulata glabra. Laminz inferiores nunc 2 mm. latze 
marginibus involutze, nunc paullo latiores, plan, acutissimze, scabrze. 
Panieula laxa ramis binis—ternis valde distantibus longissimis glaber- 
rimis. Spatha propria longissima, convoluta, seabra, pedunculo com- 
muni scabro brevior. Raeemorum alter sessilis, alter longe peduncu- 
latus, in utroque spicula 8 unica subsessilis, «spieule c sepius 5, 
quarum 3 inferiores subsessiles, 2 pedicellatz » (7). Spieule 9 basi 
pilis sericeo-fulvis einet®: gluma I™ apice truncato-bidentula dorso 
nervosa, externe fulvo-sericea, arista robusta longissima fulvo-sericea. 
