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elongato-lanceolate, 5—7 em. longe, tenuiter setaceo-acuminate, 
herbacez, glabræ, peduneulum communem superne e spatha extror- 
sum hamato-curvatum, prope genu pilis albis longiuseulis barbatum 
2—3-plo superantes. Racemi 2,5 em. longi, singuli spieulam 8 singu- 
lam ferentes, peduneulis specialibus minutis ad pulvina valde epinas- 
tica superne villosula redactis, demum a pedunculo communi deflexi, 
itaque, cum hie apice declinatus sit, erecti. Appendix sub spiculis 8 
eornucopiseformis, albo-membranaceus, truncatus, crenulatus, glaber- 
rimus, nervosus. Spicule 8 cum callo 5 mm. longo subeurvato pun- 
gente dense gilvo-sericeo-barbato 15 mm. longe, clavato-lineari- 
oblong&, teretiuscule, brunneo-virides, apice aduste : gluma I" 
coriacea, demum valde indurata, apice breviter membranaceo retusa v. 
bidenticulata, tota hirtula, obsolete 7-nervis, nervo medio in sulco pro- 
fundo latente; II“ I» subsuperans, coriacea, involuta, lineari-oblonga, 
apice hyalino deltoideo-obtusiuseula, infra apicem gibba, 3-nervis, non 
carinata, toto dorso hispidula, in aristam tenuem ipsam subzequantem 
abiens; II II^» sub:zquans, lineari-oblonga, obtusa, binervis ; IV* 
‘/, brevior, in '/, superiore bifida, arista (jam basi conerescens) vali- 
dissima 10—11 em. longa, columnä (diam. 1,3 mm.) dense aureo- 
hirta subulam subæquante. Palea parvula. Antherz 3 mm. longs. 
Spieulz 5 superiores pedicellis brevibus (4 mm. longis) dorso mar- 
ginibusque sericeo-villosis fulte, 20—26 mm. longs, lineari-lanceo- 
late, lividæ : gluma I™ plana, nervis quam 20 pluribus, glabra, superne 
marginibus scabra, in aristam ipsa 2—3-plo breviorem abiens; II^* I” 
&quans, angustior, setaceo-acuminata, 5-nervis; IP ut II^; IV* 
subulata; anthere 5 mm. longs. Spicule paris homogami ambae 
sessiles, 12 mm. longs, lanceolatz, mutic®, c. 
Afriea centr. in terra Djur ad Seriba Ghattas (Schweinf. 2331). 
Hujus sectionis species dubia : 
Anthistiria dissoluta Nees ap. Steud. Synops. 1, p. 400 ex Africa 
zquinoctiali. 
$ 3. Diheteropogon. Spieularum homogamorum paria in utriusque 
racemi parte inferiore 4—9 ; horum parium spiculz subdifformes : 
sessilis cujusque paris minor, prseter ariste defectum hermaphro- 
ditis simillima, pedicellata duplo fere major. Aristze valide columna 
plus minus hirtula, medio flexuosa ; spicula g’ cum gluma IV*. 
Gramina perennia, elata, robusta, racemis spieulisque magnis 
