with 4 to 9-spicuke ; main rachis filiform, densely hirsute-pubescent with 

 dull-cineraceous ad pressed hairs as are the pedicels, provided with a subulate 

 small bract at the basal node ; pedicels filiform, erect or erect-patent, one 

 to a node of the main rachis, 3-14 mm. long, shorter than the spicula?. 

 SpicuUe ovate, or ovate-oblong, or ovate-lanceolate, 12-27 mm. long, with 

 f>-8 flowers (the terminal flower usually abortive), erect or erect-patent, 

 compressed, dull-cineraceous and more or less viridescent, often slightly 

 shaded with purpureal tint; rachilla flexuous, pubescent, with compressed 

 internodes 2^-3 mm. long. Flowers erect-patent, more patulose when 

 dried, densely arranged so that rachilla slightly visible, ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate with a very sharp tip, 11| mm. long in the inferior one, the 

 upper ones gradually smaller and the uppermost fertile one about 7 mm. in 

 length. Empty glumes usually 2, approximate, close to the flower, pubescent 

 and ciliated, acuminate; I subulate, 2-5 mm. long, 1-4-nerved ; II larger 

 than I, 4-9 mm. long, ovate, membranaceous, f)-9-nerved. Flowering glume 

 ovate, acute with a sharp acumen at the apex, minutely ciliated on the 

 margin above, pubescent with adpressed and cineraceous hairs on the lower 

 portion and t.. wards the margin externally and also at the apex, with 9-13 



bicarinate, shortly bind" at the apex with acute 1 lobules, membranaceous, 

 piuVscent above externally, thinly ciliated on the carina', 7-11-nerved, with 



orbicular, obtuse at the apex, thin, ciliated and often pilose above, 1-U ©BOl 

 long. Stamens 6, more or less exserted ; filament filiform, glabrous ; anther 

 linear, bifid at both ends, 5-5$ mm. long. Ovary oblong, glabrous ; styles 

 nearly commte to one, glabrous ; stigmas 3, longer than the style, plumose. 



