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una nonuunquam prominente ceteris spiculam paullo tantam 

 supcrantibus compositis; spiculiö onmibus (etiam si binae in 

 fasciculo adsunt) 2-fioris, c? et- 5, glabris vel nou nisi 

 apice minute pilosnlis, 5,0— 7,0 mm longis; gluma I. semper 

 abortiva; gluma II. miuuta, spiculam vix ultra ^/g ^"lequaute, 

 sqnamiforrai, saepius asymmctrice acuta, 1-nervia; gluma III. 

 paleam floris 5 inferiorem aequante, anguste elliptica vel 

 late lineari, 3-nervia, apice emarginatim rotundata medioque 

 mueronata, in axilla paleam floris S constauter emergentem 

 saepius bene longiorem, apiee juxta acumen lineare 2-den- 

 tato-truneatam, birotundatam fovente; palea floris o inferiore 

 glumae praecedenti isomorpba sed 5-nervia et lougius muero- 

 nata, paleam superiorcm a palea S non nisi mucrone sat 

 loDgiore et apice bene bicuspidato diversam subaequante; 

 antheris optime penicillatis; stigmatibus ultra ^/^ connatis, 

 purpureis, e spiculae apice porrectis. 

 Westafrika: Senegarnbien, Guinea. 



74. Fennischim mollisshmtm Flochst.! inFloraXXVII(1844) 

 253. — F.cognatiim^im^A Syn.pl.glum.I (1855) 107 No.GS.— 

 P. elegans Rupr.! (non Nees) in Kotscby herb. Nubic. No. 234. 



Annua; erecta et erecte ramosa, florifera plus minusve 

 0,4 m alta, e gracilioribus. Folia vaginis dorso acute cari- 

 natis, margine dense dorso dissitius longe tuberculato-pilosiSj 

 scabridis ; ligulis brevibus, integris, arcuatis, margine am'i- 

 culatis, longe pilosis, ad folii dorsum baud notatis; laminis 

 erectis, linearibus, apice acutissimis, basi band vel vix con- 

 tractis, menibranaceo-chartaceis, nervo medio manifesto per- 

 eursis, ntrimque pilis longis tuberculatis conspersis, margine 

 zonula pallida basin versus laevi superne bene scabra 

 cinetis plus minusve 200 mm longis et 8 mm latis. Culmi 

 erecti vel rarius basi geniculatim ascendcntes, validi, sub- 

 teretes, ad nodos inferiores pilosi superiores barbati, apice 

 infra inflorescentias mollitcr pilosuli cet. glabri lacvesque. 

 Inflorescentia in culmi ramis singula terminalis e vaginis 

 summis emergens, folia vix vel panllo superans, subpauci- 

 flora, densissime subracemosa, baud internipta spieiformis, 

 cylindrica, apice breviter acuta, plus minusve 80 mm longa 

 et 20 mm diam. mctiens, straminea; axi rccto, albo-villoso; 



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