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and with, the sheaths softly hirsute from tubercles : panicles oblong 

 or lanceolate, contracted, rays floiiferous from the base, short: 

 glumes glabrous, with elevated nerves, lower one a fourth shorter : 

 fertile floret finely asperulous. 



Peninsula. 



(5) A. Kttasiaita. (Nees.) 



Ident. Nees Ms. — Steudel 1. o. p. 115. 



Spec. Chae. Culm and raceme straight, glabrous: knots and 

 sheaths bearded at the mouth : leaves 7-nerved, serrulate-seal^rous 

 at the margin : middle rays of the panicle vertieiUate : spikelets 

 purple-brown: glumes subulate, 5-nerved, lateral nerves approxi- 

 mated, scattered with hairs : fertile floret smooth, equalliiig the 

 lower male : lower valve deeply 2-cleft : divisions filiform at the 

 apex, bristle slightly exceeding the glumes. 



Ehasia kUls. 



(6) A. MEsopHTxn. (Nees.) 



Ident. Nees Ms.T—Stejidel 1. c. 



Spec. Chae. Whole plant hirsute from tubercles : leaves lanceo- 

 late, flat : raceme compound : partial racemules, alternate, short : 

 spikelets secund, in four rows, imbricated : pedicels very short, 

 somewhat 2-flowered : glumes hirsute : lower valve of the upper 

 floret 2>biistled, avra exserted. 



CourtaUum. 



(7) A. SETTEBEA. 



Ident. Steudel 1. c. 



Syn. A. hirsuta, SocJist. in Herb. JSohenhaoJc. Ind. No. 920. 



Spec. Chae. Eoot strongly fibrous : culm erect, 1-foot, glabrous: 

 sheaths long, densely hairy at the margin, cUiated at the month : 

 leaves linear-lanceolate, Elongated, hairy on the blade from scattered 

 tubercles, on the margin from bristly, usually twin approximated 

 tubercles : panicle erect-spreading : rays twin at the base : spikelets 

 soHtaiy, lanceolate, spreading at the apex, pedieeUed : glumes 2, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, nearly, equal, hairy at 'the back, '6- 

 nerved : sterile floret mpnandrous, equalling the upper glume, 

 fertile one twice shorter, 2-cleft at the apex, very finely bristly : 

 awn genicidate, exceeding the fiorets. 



NeUgherries. 



(8) A. puEPTTKEA. (Hocheft.J 



Ident. Hochst. in Herb; Hohenhack. Ind, No. 928. — Steudel 1. c. 



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