3 ° 
Char.act. nat. 
Masculi flores in spicam laxam, pedicellatam, digesti. 
CAL. Gluma biflora: flosculo exteriore masculo, interiore neutro; utrique bivalvis i 
valvula exteriore oblongo ovata, crassa, ala angusta circumcirca cincta, mar¬ 
gine introrsum flexo amplexante interiorem, angustiorem, lanceolatam, acutio¬ 
rem , dorso carinatam, longitudine exterioris. 
COR. utrisque bivalvis-, membranacea, tenuissima, mutica: valvulis ovato lanceolatis: 
exteriore concava, subcarinata, acutiuscula; interiore planiore, acutiuscula; 
in flore masculo aequalibus, longitudine fere calycis5 in flore neutro interiore 
exteriori paullo breviore. 
Nectarium ? 
STAM. Flosculi exterioris: Filamenta tria, capillaria, calyce breviora. Antherae 
parallelipipedae. Flosculi interioris: Filamenta capillaria. Antherae minores, 
steriles. 
Femineus flos 'ad basin spicae masculae, in eadem planta. 
CAL. Involucrum ovato conicum, crassum, obtusum-, nitidum, durum, apice perfora¬ 
tum , ore obliquo; continens pedunculum floris masculi, florem femineum, et 
rudimenta duo flosculorum cylindrica, clavata, ex ore involucri prominentia , 
ad latus utrumque pedunculi. Gluma solitaria, linearis, angusta, bidentata, 
marginibus inflexis, ad basin pedunculi. 
Gluma bivalvis, crassa, interne cellulosa: valvula exteriore magna, ventricosa, 
cuspide longa canaliculata emarginata terminata; interiore planiuscula, dorso sulco duplici 
impresso, pn cuspidem longam acuminatam solidam producta, paullo longiore. 
COR. bivalvis, calyce paullo brevior, membranacea: valvula exteriore (intra valvulam 
exteriorem calycis) majore, ventricosa, cuspidata, acuminata; interiore pia-- 
niuscula , dorso bisulco, marginibus inflexis, in cuspidem planiusculam acumi¬ 
natam desinens. Valvula tertia in sinu exterioris, minor, similis, tenuissima, 
cuspidata, emarginata, subcarinata, dorso germinis incumbens. 
PIST. Germen subrotundum, compressum, minimum. Stylus compressus. Stigmata 
duo, corniculata, flore longiora, undique pubescentia. 
PERIC. nullum, praeter involucrum femineum, crassum, lapideum, ovato coni¬ 
cum , apice et basi perforatum, nitidum, semen maturum claudens, nec di¬ 
mittens. 
SEM, solitarium, subglobosum, hinc gibbum, inde profunde sulcatum, stylo persi¬ 
stente rostratum. 
