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640 MONOCOTYLEDONEX. ANDROPOGON, 
lineares, longe acuminat®, glabrae, subtus læves, supra scabrze, costa 
media anguste uninervi, supra albolineata, nervis lateralibus paucis, 
valde prominentibus. Racemi terminales e spatha propria plus minus 
exserti, axillares ea subinvoluti, 5—6 cm. longi, erecti, laxiflori, 
spieulas fertiles plerumque 4—6 continentes, alter pedunculo speciali 
ad 1 em. longo puberulo fultus, sine pari spicularum homogamorum, 
alter subsessilis, cum pari uno. Articuli pedicellique spieula 8 '/, bre- 
viores, marginibus pilis albis articulo 3—5-plo brevioribus ciliati, 
oblique disjungentes. Spieule 8 lineari-lanceolatze eum callo 2 mm. 
longo acutiusculo curvulo breviter albo-barbato 9 mm. long, livide 
brunneo-virides: gluma I“: subeoriacea, obtusiuscula, tenuiter 5-ner- 
vis, intus epidermide rufa solubili induta, extus pilis albis hirtula ; 
II? F» :equans, chartacea, 3-nervis, carina ciliata, superne pilosula ; 
III: lineari-oblonga, II?"» subzequans, marginibus inflexis ciliata, sub- - 
enervis; IV" '/, brevior, lineari-oblonga, in ’/, v.''/, superiore bifida, 
lobis aeutis eiliolatis; arista vix 2 em. longa, columna brevissime 
hirtula leviter flexuosa. Spicule pedicellatz 5, sessiles aaquantes v. 
subsuperantes, iis similes sed gluma I»: 7- secunda 5-nervis, hiec et 
IV* mutice. 
Brasilia: in saxosis subhumidis Serra da Lapa provinc. Minarum 
(Langdorff). 
B. Artieulus v. pedunculus specialis spiculam 3 in quoque racemo imam fuleiens apice appen- 
dice scarioso braeteiformi colorato instructus 1, — Culmi robusti, sepe arundinacei, 
ultra 1 m. alti, erecti; lamine e basi angustata sublanceolato-lineares v. lineares, 
. longe acuminats, costa media inferne crassiuscula v. crassa, non carinata, supra late 
albo-lineata, intus medullosa, nervis lateralibus subprominulis. Spieularum par homo- 
gamum in racemo altero 1, in altero nullum (n. 185—191 
s Appendix 1—4 mm. longus, obtusus, interdum bifidus, concavus, basi setis longis e pedun- 
culis ir ortis stipatus, ab his interdum fere obtectus. — Vaginæ inferiores 
compressiuseulz, stiperiores teretes, eostats. Panieula elongata, erecta, ramis gracil- 
limis crest ie levibus ad nodos rectos v. plus minus geniculatos pubescentibus v. 
barbatis. Racemorum pedunculi speciales brevissimi (alter subnullus, alter 1—2 mm. 
sessiles, pedicellatis similes sed omnino muticæ, — Species 185—185, A. antbisti- 
roidi et cymbario magis afünes quam pracedentibus. 
185. A. confinis (Hochstett. in Schimp. pl. Abyss. n. 1456; —— 
' De hujus appendicis natura conf. notam ad ped. p. 361. 
