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Culmus prlmonVialls flagellaris telragono-compressus, 

 c,laLcr, purpnrasccns, nndus, per intprvalla radices dcor- 

 Mini, sursum surciilos cirt'ilcr polllcares sleriles allosque 

 ilorigeros bi - Irlpollicares emillens. IJI surcull ba^i sunt 

 bulbosi dense vaginali. Vaginac infimae aphyllae, sqiia- 

 miformes, oblnsae, rellquae lamlnlgerae, subdislIcLae, 

 compressae, slriatae vel circa inargiiiem villosae; lamiiia 

 ad summiim polllcaris, llnea anguslior, llneari acuniinala, 

 plana, moliis, viridis, utrinque villosa. LIgula latc ovata, 

 laccro-ciliata. Culmi florentes siipcrlus tenues, compressi, 

 binodes, glabri, foliis magis reniolis, sumino parvo. Spi- 

 cae digilatae, fres aut qualuor, divaricalae vel rcdoxap. 

 Rhachis linearis, iindala, snpra carinata, subtus plana, 

 margine scabra, basi pubcscens. Spiculae solilariae, im- 

 bricalae, brcvissiine pedicellaXae, allernae, ovalae, obtusae, 

 oblique compressae, lineam longae. Glömae allernae, 

 ilosculo plus Iriplo et lere quadruple breviores, acqualcs, 

 ovato-lanceolatae, aculiusculae, cariuatae, albo-niembrana- 

 ceae, uninerves, nervo carinali virldi scabro. FIosculus 

 niembranaceo-chartaceus: valvula inferior dimidiato ovala, 

 basi relusa, compressa, membranaceocarinala ef in carina 

 ujinule ciliala, caelerum glabra et laevis, pallide virens, 

 Irincrvis, nervo lalerali margini proprlore lineola purpu- 

 reo-fosca notata carinaque apicem versus purpurea; su- 

 perior valvula paullo longior inferioic, oblonga, acullus- 

 cula, obliqua, apicem versus pnrpureo - i'usca, binervis, 

 nervis approximatis sulculum includenlibus scabriusculis. 

 Rudimentum allerius flosculi oninino deest. Lodiculae 

 oblonge -lanceolatae, aculiusculae, carnosae, fulvae. Slig- 

 inala lulea. 



Species est distinclissima, glunnis brevibus, flosculis 

 inaculatis obtusissimis, foliisque molli - villosis dislin. 

 guenda. 



