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FIG. 4. Spikelets of Myriocladus Swallen; X 5. a, M. variabilis; b, M. paludicolus; c, 

 M. confertus; d, M. distantiflorus; e, M. purpureus; f, M. wurdackii. FIG. 5. a, Axonopus 

 maguirei Black, spikelet, X 15; b, Axonopus suffultiformis Black, portion of rachis with 

 spikelets, X 10. (Drawings by LaVerne Helen Richardson.) 



mm long, obtuse or subobtuse, glabrous or sparsely pilose near the margins, the 

 midnerve thickened at the summit, sometimes excurrent in a short mucro; palea as 

 long as or slightly longer than the lemma, glabrous, or sparsely pilose between 

 the keels. 



TYPE: locally frequent on open headland, 7 km north of Cumbre Camp, alt. 

 1900 m 9 Cerro de Neblina, Rio Yatua, Terr. Amazonas, Venezuela, January 10, 

 1954, Bassett Maguire, John J. Wurdack, & George 5. Bunting 37200; U. S. 

 National Herbarium Nos. 2,182,101 and 2,182,102. 



17. Myriocladus distantiflorus Swallen, sp. nov. Figure 4d. 



Culmi usque ad 5 m alti; rami floriferi ca. 80 cm longi; vaginae ligula exte- 

 riore 0„4 mm longa, minute ciliata vel glabra, in ore fimbriatae, subtruncatae; 

 ligula brevis in costa hispida; panicula ca. 65 cm longa, .7 cm lata, densa, ramis 

 numerosis adscendentibus usque ad 10 cm longis, inferioribus ramulis appressis 

 vel divergentibus; spiculae 1-4-florae; rachilla gracilis, glabra; glumae 2-3 mm 

 longae, angustae, summo hispidulae; gluma secunda et lemma sterile subae- 

 qualia, 3-4 mm longa, glumam primam simulans vel lemma sterile obtusum, 

 mucronatum; lemma fertile 5-5.5 mm longum, obtusum vel subobtusum, rare 

 mucronatum, glabrum; palea quam lemmate longior vel brevior, summo minute 

 hispidula. 



