THEMEDA. ANDROPOGONEJE (AUCT. EDUARDO HACKEL). c 669 
Spiculse involucrantes 4,5—6 mm. longs, acuminats, livide violas- 
centes v. rufescentes, glabr& : gluma I™ acutissima, præter carinas 
scabras levis; IV^ III*^ zequans, lineari-clavata, obtusa, bidentula, 
enervis, glabra. Antherz 2,5 mm. longs. Spieule pedicellatæ pedi- 
cellis glabris fultze. Spieula 8 cum callo 0,6 mm. longo molliter albo- 
barbato (barba */, spieule equante) 4—5 mm. longa, lineari-oblonga, 
demum castaneo-brunnea : gluma I" superne breviter attenuata, 
ipso apice retusa, emarginata, dorso superne scaberula, inferne lævis 
nitensque, infra apicem 5-nervis, ceterum enervis; II^ I” æquans, 
chartacea, deltoideo-obtusiuscula v. mucronulata, prster margines 
hyalinos implicatos ciliolatos glaberrima; IV** arista gracilis, 9—17 
mm. longa, columnä fuscá scaberrimá flexuosà subulam subconcolo- 
rem superante, Anther& 2 mm. longa. 
India or. in montosis (Roxb.); Peninsula (Wight 1707, 175 [h. 
prop.]); Maisur et Carnatie (Hook. f. et Thoms.); Ceylon (Thwait. 
3257, 3803). 
7. Th. anathera ; panicula simpliciuscula; spiculis 8 mutieis in 
singulo racemo binis v. ternis. -— Anthistiria anathera Nees! ap. 
Steud. Synops. 1, p. 402; Androscepia anathera Anderss. in Nov. 
Act. Soc. Ups. 2, p. 249. 
Culmi 40—120 cm. alti, erecti v. geniculato-ascendentes, basi 
interdum deeumbentes, graciles, subcompressi, glaberrimi, substria- 
tuli, inferne simplices v. foliifero-ramosi. Vagine subcompress®, 
obtuse earinatz, arcte, glaberrimz v. ore ciliatz, internodiis bre- 
viores, superiores floriferz dilatatæ, laminam paniculam superantem 
ferentes. Ligula exserta, 2 mm. longa, obtusa, membranacea, glabra. 
Lamin® 20—30 cm. longæ, 2—4 mm. late, rigidæ, erectze, glauc®, 
excepta basi fimbriata glabrze, subtus scaberulze, supra marginibusque 
scabrz v. scaberrimz. Panicula elongata, medium culmum subzequans, 
laxa; rami ejus solitarii v. bini, primarii elongati, suberecti, pluri- 
nodes, nodis distantibus, secundarios solitarios—3"** breves subcapil- 
lares areuato-patulos racemis terminatos gignentes, omnes glaberrimi. 
Spathe proprie 1,5—2 em. longs, lineari-lanceolate, acutz, com- 
press®, subcarinat&, carina scabrze, ceterum glaberrim&, dorso sub- 
herbacez, margine scarioss, viridulz v. rufescentes, racemo brevio- 
res. Racemus pedunculo */, spathz sequanti subcapillari glaberrimo 
positos » jam ipse Linnzus his verbis bene descripsit. Spathze ceterum in A. 
. eymbario multo latiores, cymbiformes, purpurascentes. 
