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laevesque. Infloreseeiitia submultiflora, recta, densissime 

 spiciformis, cylindrica apice rotundata vel acntiuscula, plus 

 minusve 50 mm louga et 9 mm diam.; axi subtereti, longc 

 piloso; fasciculis subsessilibus, erectis, e spiciüa uniea scssili 

 et setis subpancis interioribus peniiatis, praeter prominentem 

 ad 8 mm longam plus minusve 6 mm metientibus com- 

 positis; spiQula 1-liora, subelliptica, acuta, 4 mm longa, fere 

 glabra; gluma I. minuta quam spicula 7~8-plo breviore, 

 gquamiformi, dentato-crenata, truneata, a venia; gluma IL 

 spiculam ad 1/5 aequante, item squamiformi, apice rotundata 

 minuteque mucroniilata, 1-nervia, linea media prope apicem 

 macula lineari subatra notata; gluma III. paleas sequentes 

 aequante, ex elliptieo acuta, 5-nervia, sient praeeedens 

 liueata; palea inferiore glnmae precedenti isomorpba sed 

 paullo latiore, paleam superiorem vix superante; antberis 

 baud penicillatis; stylis liberis, stigmatibus purpureis late- 

 ralibus. 



Tropiscbes Ostafrika. 



Series II. Gymnothrix (Beauv. gen.) Leeke. 



Antberae baud penicillatae. Setae oranes nudae scabrae- 

 que nee pennatae. 



Subseries a. BecJceropsis (Fig. et de Not. gen.) Leeke. 



Involucrum in sctam iinicam infra spiculae basin in- 

 sertam reduetum. 



19. Pennisekim pitmüam Ilackel! in Engl. Ilocbgebirgsfl. 

 trop. Afr. (1892) 124. 



Abessinien. 



20. Pennisekim uliginosum Ilackel! in Engl. Ilocb- 

 gebirgsfl. trop. Afr. (1892) 123. 

 xibessinien. 



21. Tennisetum longisekcm K. Scbum.! in Engl. Pflanzen- 

 welt Ostafr. C. (1895) 105. — Setaria longiseta Beauv. FI. 

 d'Oware II (1807) 81 t 110. — Bechera dioica lieynb. 



