— 750 — 



gluma circiter duplo breviore, lanceolata, apice 

 emarginata. Arista geniculata, gluma 2 — 3plo ion- 

 giore. Rhacheos internodia hirsuta , pilis termina- 

 libus longioribus, spicula fertili paullo longiora. 

 3) P. major; spicula tabescenti ad rudimentum pedicel- 

 liforme villosum reducta; glumis muticis; arista spi- 

 cula fertili duplo -triplo longiore. — Lucaea major 

 Höchst, in herb, un. it. abyss, ex parte. — Steud. 

 Gram. p. 4 1 4. — Batratherum micans Nees in herb. 

 Trin. et in Jard. Ann. VII, 220. — Andropogon 

 micans Steud. syn. Gram. pag. 382. — In montibus 

 Cujetanis provinciae Schire in Abyssinia leg. Schim- 

 per, in insula Mauritius (Cymbopogon glandulo- 

 sus herb. Nees.), in Bhotan (herb. Lindl.), in Ne- 

 paulia (teste Steud.) — Radix fibrosa, annua. Culmi 

 caespitosi, elongati, adscendentes, ramosi, péda- 

 les et ultra, ad nodos barbulati, caeterum gla- 

 bri. Foliorum vaginae ad basin fissae, apicem 

 versus plus minus hirsutae v. margine tantum 

 ciliatae; ligula brevis, ciliata; lamina a basi cor- 

 data amplexicauli lanceolata, utrinque pilosula, 

 margine a basi usque supra medium plus minus 

 ciliata , internodio longior. Spicae binae v. ter- 

 nae, terminales, longe exsertae. Rudimentum spi- 

 culae tubescentis pedicelliforme , villosum , spi- 

 culam dimidiam fertilem subaequans. Glumae ad 

 nervös latere exteriore hispidulae; inferior oblongo- 

 lanceolata, acuta, 7 — 9 nervia, viridis; superior 

 lanceolata, acuminata, inferiorem paullo superans, 

 nervo dorsali nervisque lateralibus obsoletioribus 

 percursa. Flos inferior neuter ad paleam lineari-lan- 

 ceolatam membranaceam parvam reductus. Flos 



