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proprie 8—10 mm. longs, elliptico-lanceolatze, carina scaberrimse, 
nervis scaberule, glabræ, preter margines late rufo-membranaceas 
virides, racemos porrectos 8—9 mm. longos squantes. Pedunculus 
spatha 3—4-plo brevior, filiformis, rectus, apice minute tuberculatus. 
- Spicul;e involuerantes pedicellis 1—1,2 mm. longis praeter barbam 
basilarem. glabris fultæ, 4,5 mm. longs, lanceolatie, a dorso com- 
presss, e viridi et rufescenti subvariegatze : gluma P™ acutiuseula, 
carinis parce ciliatis superne seabris, elevato-5-nervis, ad nervos 
seaberula; II^ tenuiter 3-nervis, marginibus latiuscule implicatis 
teneris glabris; II illis '/, brevior, linearis, obtusa v. denticulata, 
glabra. Antherze 2,5 mm. longs. Spicule g superiores pedicellis 
quam spicula 3 duplo brevioribus superne parce ciliatis fultæ. Spi-. 
cula 9 articulo gracili apice longe pilifero insidens, 5 mm. longa, 
e basi lanceolata acuminata; gluma I" chartacea, supra medium 
. sensim attenuata, ipso apice anguste truncata et emarginata, nargi- 
nibus anguste carinato-implicata carinis scabris, dorso plana, glabra, 
lgvis, inferne subenervis, superne paucinervis, II^ e basi late lanceo- 
. lata longe setaceo-acuminata, 1-nervis, glaberrima ; IV** arista 9—16 
mm. longa, columna subulam :equante. 
India orient. p. Patna et Muroo (Wall. 8767 B, C); in distr. Tschanda 
(Duthie in h. m.); Peninsula (Wight 1711°, 167* h. prop.); Pondi- 
chery (Perrott. s. nr.); Ceylon pr. Chilaw (Trimen in h. m., forma 
.  Spiculis involuerantibus carinis scabris, glabris). In ins. Mauritius . 
.. advena (h. Kunth). | 
4. I. anthephoroides; panicula elongata, lineari, laxa; racemo a 
spatha demum divergente ; spiculis involucrantibus pedicellis brevissi- 
. mis, spicula 6—8-plo brevioribus crassis inter se poros oblongos 
. relinquentibus fultis, biglumibus; spicula fertili subsessili carinis 
- longe ciliata, involucrantibus obtecta. 
Culmi erecti v. genieulato-ascendentes, 25—40 em. alti. Vaginæ 
lax:e, glaberrim&, nisi florifere superiores versus margines sæpe 
. tuberculato-piliferze. Ligula, laminæ, panicula ut in I. laxo. Spathæ — 
..— proprie 10—12 mm. longe, elliptico-lanceolatz, racemum superans, 
ceterum ut in I. laxo. Pedunculus spatha 5—6-plo brevior, crassius- . 
culus, glaberrimus, extrorsum curvatus. Spieule involucrantes sub- 
sessiles, 5 mm. longe, oblongo-lineares, flavescenti-virides, propter - 
poros 4 ad earum basin involucrum illud Anthephorz bene referentes. | 
.. Gluma I^ obtusiuseula v. acutiuscula, marginibus vix inflexa, flexuris 
. jnerassatis ad apicem usque dense patuleque ciliatis, dorso plano 
