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basin eiusmodi selis hirta. Ligula fusea, truncata, denli- 

 culata. Ramuli 3 — 4 brevos comprcssi, folii culiiium ae- 

 quantis vagina circumvoluli, fasciculos geminos tcrciites, 

 superiores approximali. Sub singulo f'asciculo vagina laii- 

 ceolata, acuminata, spatliacea, apbylla , glabra. Fasciculi 

 scmptemflori, Spiculae quatuor pcripbericae verticillalae, 

 scssiles, imperfecte masculae, aequales. Glumae aequales: 

 inferior seu exterior Iierbacea, convexa, lanceolala, sub- 

 ulato- acuminata, mullinervis, in a apicem versus selisj 

 albis callo innalis plus minus Jiirsuta, in ß glabra, vcl 

 una alterave tantummodo sola praedlla; superior infcriori 

 aequalis lineari-lanceolata, acuta, plana, mcmbranacea, 

 glabra, trinervis, marglnibus inflexa. Flosculus uuus unl- 

 valvis, glumis brevior, valvula lanceolala byalina acuta. 

 Lodlciilae cuneiformcs, truncato-bidenlatae. Filamenta 

 sterilla, brevla. Spiculae centrales fasciculato-ternae. Pe- 

 dicellus communis obconicus, l'usco-birtus. Spiculae late- 

 rales diiae ipsae hirlo-pedicellalae, hermaphroditam su- 

 peranles, neutrae, unillorae, glumis caudato . aeuminatis, 

 subhirtis glabrisve, illis verlicilli minoribus caelerum con- 

 formibus. Splcula fertilis in cenlro communis verticilll 

 sessilis, inferior, cylindrica, bilinearis, sesquiflora. Gluma 

 inferior carlilagineo - membranacea , convoluta, truncata, 

 apicem versus hirlula setulis incumbentibus, demum fusca, 

 amplectelis alteram bilincarem trinervem. Flosculus in- 

 ferior ncutcr , univalvis: valvula gluma <^ brevior j lanceo- 

 lala, acuta, byalina; superior bermapbroditus: valvula in- 

 ferior, glumae superlori adiecta, e basl membranacea an- 

 gusta ablt in arislam sive setam sesquiuncialem crassam, 

 in niedio flexuosam, basin versus pubescenll-birtam fus- 

 cam; superior valvula vix semilinearis membranacea. Lo 

 dlculae longiludinis valvulae superioris lincari- cuneiformcs. 

 plicatae, apice truncatae et bi-tridentatae. Styli longi et 

 gracllcs; stigmata pcnicilliformia, violi'cca. 



