658 MONOCOTYLEDONEAR. THEMEDA, 
niana Büse ap. Miqu. Fl. Ind. bat. 3, p. 504 ; Aristaria barbata Jungh. 
in Tjdschr. nat. Gesch. 7, p. 296. 
Annua. Culmi erecti v. geniculato-ascendentes, e geniculis infe- 
rioribus radices fulerantes agentes, 0,5—3 m. alti, plus minusve 
compressi, substriati, inferne simplices v. foliifero-ramosi, superne 
panieulam foliosam laxam ferentes. Vagine glabræ v. e tuberculis 
hirtule, internodiis multo breviores, superiores (floriferæ) tubereu- 
. lato-barbat, laminas racemorum capitula duplo excedentes ferentes. 
Ligula 1 mm. longa, rotundato-truncata, rufo-membranacea, glabra. 
Lamin® superne non v. parum angustata, acutz, acutiuscule v. 
inferiores obtusiuscule, 10—40 em. longs, 4—6 mm. lat, rigidule, 
patule, glaucescentes, glabr& v. basi barbatze, subtus leeves, supra 
scabre, margine scaberrimz. Panicula vix dimidiam culmi partem 
oceupans, valde interrupta, paupera, racemiformis, nodis 2—3 remo- 
tis; ejus rami solitarii v. bini, elongati, sepe nutantes, glaberrimi, 
inferne longissime nudi, apice e nodis 2—3 ramulosi, ramulis (race- 
mis) dense fasciculatis, eunetis capitulum late obovatum v. semi- 
globosum ovi magnitudine formantibus; capitula racemos fertiles 
6—20 et insuper sepe plures steriles hebetatos breviter aristatos 
continentes. Spathz proprie 3,5—4 em. longs, inferne lineari- 
lanceolatz, superne longe lineari-attenuat®, ipso apice scarioso 
obtusz, herbacez, scarioso-marginatz, plus minus dense villosz, villis - 
patentibus basi tuberculatis, racemos triplo superantes. Racemus 
circ. 1,5 cm. longus. Spiculæ involucrantes 8—10 mm. longz, lanceo- 
latze, pallide virides : gluma herbaceo-membranacea, acuminata v. 
cuspidata, rarius acuta, altero v. utroque margine plus minus late 
scarioso-alata, alis infra apicem denticulos formantibus, 5—6-nervis, 
glaberrima. Spiculz pedicellats involuerantibus simillimze, subulat®, 
glumä non alatá. Spieula 8 cum callo 3—4 mm. longo pungentissimo 
eurvulo antice glabro lateribus et postice dense fusco-barbato (barba 
fere mediam spieulam zsequante) 9—11 mm. longa, primo fulva, 
demum fusca : gluma I” retusa, cylindrica, superne hispidula v. 
tuberculato-scabra, inferne levis v. puncticulata, nitens, obscure 
5—7-nervis; II“ linearis, truncata, superne scabra; III illis duplo 
brevior, late ovato-oblonga, truncata, denticulata ; IV* arista validis- 
sima 7—9 em. longa. Antherz 1,5 mm. longs. 
Malacca (Grift. in h. DC.); Java (Jungh., Zolling. 373, forma 
minor); Amboina ex Rumphio, Australia bor. ad Portum Darwini 
(Schultz 217), Arnhem's Land (F. Muell). — Variat altitudine, 
spathis propriis modo hirsutis, modo glabriuseulis, unde Anderss. 
