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unipaleaceus neuter, d. Flosculus superior 

 fertilis. 

 Tab. X fig. 4.Flosculi, aucti. a. Flosculus inferior uni- 

 paleaceus. b. Flosculus fertilis palea basi 

 aristata. c. Ovarium antheraeque. 

 2) P. microphylla; spiels solitariis v. binis; spicula ta- 

 bescenti uniglumi; rhacheos spicularum internodiis 

 villosis; glumis muticis inferiore lineari - lanceolata, 

 superiore ovato-lanceolata br éviter bicuspidata, arista 

 spicula fertili 2 — 3plo longiore. — Andropogon 

 microphyllus Trin. in Mém. de l'Acad. des sciences 

 de St.-Pétersbourg, sér. VI, torn. II, pag. 275. — 

 Steud. syn. pag. 382. — Hab. in Nepaulia (Wallich). 

 — Radix fibrosa , annua. Plantulae caespitosae, 

 2 — 4 pollicares, caulibus tenuibus glabris. Folio- 

 rum vaginae ad basin fissae, patenter hirsutae, la- 

 minam 2 — 3 linearem circiter aequantes; ligula 

 brevissima, ciliata; lamina lanceolata, utrinque at- 

 tenuate, supra infraque hirsuta. Pedunculus bre- 

 viter exsertus. Spicae 3 — 4 lineares, solitariae v. 

 binae, pauciflorae. Spicula sterilis pedicellata, uni- 

 glumis, lineari-lanceolata, carinato-compressa, mar- 

 gine ciliolata; pedicellus villosus, pilis terminalibus 

 longioribus. Spicula fertilis sessilis, biglumis ; gluma 

 inferior lineari-lanceolata, obsolete 7-nervis, acu- 

 minata, in carina apicem versus hispidula; gluma 

 inferior ovato-lanceolata, breviter bicuspidata, ner- 

 vis 7 validioribus percursa, dorso apicem versus 

 ad nervös validiores duos excurrentes hispidula. 

 Flos inferior neuter, ad paleam lineari-lanceolatam, 

 membranaceam , gluma dimidio minorem reductus. 

 Flos superior unipaleaceus, palea membranacea, 



