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brevissimiS; margine dcnse longeque pilosis; laminis flexuosis, 

 anguste linea,ribus, basi uiillo modo contractis apicem versus 

 sensim acutissimis, plus minus 0,3 m loiigis et 5 mm latis, 

 planis, submembranaceis, nervo medio tenui nunc tenuissimo 

 praeditis, utrimque pilis tuberculatis deraum deciduis con- 

 spersis, supra bene scabridis, margine serrulatis. Culmi sueto 

 gemculatim ascendentes, gracillimi, angulati, praeter summum 

 apicem bene pilosum scabridumque cum nodis glabri laeves- 

 que. Inflorescentia in culmo quoque singula, subpaueiflora, 

 saepissime plus minus 70 mm longa et 10 mm diam. metiens, 

 fere constanter violascens; axi graeili, lineat'im augulato, 

 longe piloso; fasciculis brevissime pedicellatis, suberectis, e 

 spicis 3 vel raro 4 pedicellis insignibus gracilibusque plus 

 minus 3 mm longis ereete brevissime pilosulis, stipitatis, 

 media hermapbrodita lateralibus masculis et setis submultis, 

 interioribus optime penuatis, öubaequaliter ad 10 mm longis 

 compositis; spiculis omnibus l-floris, lanecolatis, acutiuseulis 

 vel acutis, 5,5 — 6 mm longis, glumis remote inscrtis imprimis 

 prima valde distante insignibus; spiculis S gluma L lanceo- 

 lata, tertiae insertionem vix attingente. acuta, avenia; gluma IL 

 priori isomorpba sed 1-nervia, spiculam plus minus ad 1/4 

 aequante; gluma III. priori vix vel paullo longiore, item 

 1-nervia, constanter asymmetriccque prope apicem dentata; 

 palea inferiore ex anguste elliptico subrotundata, 5-nervia, 

 paleam supcriorem isomorpliam sed 2-nerviam paullo supe- 

 rante; spicula 5 glumis I. — III. brevioribus, palea inferiore 

 longe acuminata ; antheris haud penicillatis ; stigmatibus 

 medium usque vel ultra connatis. 



Abessinien. 



11. Pennisetum Büppelii Steud. ! Nomencl. (1840 — 1841) 

 208 et Syu. pl. glum I. (1855) 107 No. 06. — P. Büppelianum 

 Hort, ex Gartenfl. XIV (1895) 137, 179. — P. macrostachyon 

 Fresen.! (uon Trin.) in Mus. Scnck. II (1837) 135. — P. 



spedabüe Fig. et de Not! in Mem. Acad. Toriu. 2 ser. XII 



(1852) 248. 



Tripolis, Agyptisclier Sudan, Abessinien, Sinai, Arabia 

 felix, Sokotra. 







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