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albo-flavidus, glaberrimus infra nodos plus minus scabre hirtus. Nodi crassi, flavi, pilosi. 
Folia longissima, linearia, acuta, costa lata elevata subtus notata, utrinque sed praesertim subtus 
pilis longis hirsuta, margine scabra; vaginae internodiis breviores, compressae, dorso carinatae, 
tenuiter striatae, flavescentes, pilis longis tuberculatis hispidae; ligula parva, lacera. Panicula 
subeorymbosa, erecta, 4—6 lin. longa, apice latior; rachis angulosa pilis longis raris obsita; 
rami stricti in verticillis parum distantibus dispositi, subdigitati, densius ciliati. Spiculae ternae, 
geminae vel apicem versus ramorum solitariae, pedicellis brevibus ciliatis insidentes, alternantes, 
biflorae; glumae duae valde inaequales, inferior parva squamaeformis ovato-rotundata apice 
subproducto acutiuscula, glaberrima, enervis, superior inferiorem triplo quadruplove superans, 
oblonga, apicem versus latior in acumen breve sensim constricta, herbacea fusco -viride 
variegata obsoletissime nervosa, flosculos superans; flosculi masculi palea glumae superiori 
aequalis, exterior dorso longitudinaliter impressa, uninervis, glaberrima, nitens, interiorem bre- 
viorem marginibus rotundatis amplectens; stamina tria filamentis brevibus, antheris fuscis; 
flosculi hermaphroditici palea exterior ovalis convexa, nitens, transversim rugosa, pallide 
flava, cartilaginea, interiorem breviorem planiusculam grosse punclatam apice rotundatam 
marginibus rotundatis amplectens; ovarium glabrum, flavum, obtusum, stigmatibus plumosis, 
coeruleis, exserlis. 
Panicum Reimarioides, Andersson. 
P. paniculae ramis digitatis, scabris; spiculis alternantibus oblique acutatis, 
rachidi appressis, bifloris; gluma univalvis, acutissima, scabra; palea flosculi masculi 
(v. neutrius) glumaeformi, palea exteriori flosculi hermaphroditici cartilaginea; lae- 
vissima, acuta; foliis brevibus, vaginis basi hirlis, culmo basi rudicante ramosissimo. 
Standort: Auf sandigem feuchten Boden, an Flüssen, vom 15— 19" S. B.; im Innern 
des Landes am Zambeze, in der feuchten Jahreszeit vom November bis April, eingesammelt 
im November und December. 
Radix fibrosa, fibris longis, tenuibus, glabris, albidis. Culmus e basi repente et radi- 
cante adscendens, apice nulans, inferne valde ramosus, subteres alternatim sulcatus, glaberri- 
mus (internodiis tantam imis subhirsutis), nitens, viridis vel sanguineo tinctus. Folia brevia, 
linearia, acuta, erecta, margine subundulato et supra scabra, subtus glabriuscula saepius colo- 
rata; vaginae subcompressae carinatae, imae spathaeformes ramos involventes, glabrae basi 
tantum- pilis divaricatis hirtae; ligula producta, lacera. Panicula ramis 6— 12 subdigitatis effusa; 
rachis ramique simplices angulati scaberrimi. Spiculae geminae vel solitariae, sessiles vel 
brevissime pedicellatae, alternatim spicatae, rachidi propriae arcte adpressae, anguste lanceo- 
latae apice obliquo acutissimae, biflorae. Gluma excurvata unica lanceolata in acumen elonga- 
tum valde angustata, flosculum hermaphroditicum superans, convexiuscula, 5-nervis, pilis bre- 
vibus subtuberculatis scabra; palea flosculi neutri unica glumae omnino aequalis, acutata, 
3-nervis et hispidula; flosculi hermaphroditiei palea exterior anguste ovalo-lanceolata, acuta, 
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