media tenui l-nervi subtus carinata, supra non albolineata, nervis

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ANDROPOGON.
media tenui l-nervi subtus carinata, supra non albolineata, nervis
lateralibus vix prominulis. Eacemi bini, patuli, 2—2,5 cm. longi, a
spatba propria apbylla saspe rufescente parum remoti v. basi vaginati,
uterque pedicellulo coronato-dentato post delapsas spiculas in apice
pedunculi communi scabri persistente fultus, graciles, articuli pedicellique spicula sessili parum—'/ breviores, disjuncti cupula rectiuscula
irregulariter dentata coronati, utroque margine (altero saìpe parcius)
laxe cibati, ciliis albis accrescentibus, summis articulo subduplo brevioribus. Spiculas sessiles 4 mm. longas, tenues, inter articulum et
pedicellum fere occultas, pallescentes, glabra : gluma I " membranacea, acute bidentula, marginibuslate implicata, carinis scabra, prater
carinas enervis, callo brevissimo sulco transverso manifesto a reliqua
gluma distincto; I F I" asquans, membranacea, lineari-oblonga,
abrupte acuminata, mucronata, carina scabra, 1-nervis ; III* quam I "
subduplo brevior, linearis, obtusiuscula, enervis ; IV° III" asquans,
angustissime linearis, 1-nervis, glabra, bifida, inter dentes breves
filiformes aristam tenuissimam 12 mm. longam emittens, columna
recta, fusca, quam subula ' / 3 breviore. Palea minutissima. Anthera
1,5 mm. longse. Stigmata parvula. Spiculas pedicellatas 4—6 mm.
longse, lividse, glabrae : gluma I herbacea, carinis scaberrima, tenuissime multinervis ; II brevior, lanceolata, acuminata, 3—5-nervis,
membranacea; in H
subasquans, oblongo-linearis, obtusiuscula,
binervis. Lodiculas parvulas ; anthera 2 mm. longas.
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Peninsula Indies orient. (Wigbt 1701) ; in prov. centr. pr. Assirgar
(Kuntze in h. prop.), Tschanda (Dutbie mis.) ; ad ped. Himalayas
pr. Gosham Stban (Wall. 8799 ; etiam 8798 A. B. e loco ign.).
Obs. Nomine A. pumili Roxb. a Duthie accepi; sed Roxburghii
descriptio spicularum minime in nostrum quadrat, nec racemi longe
pedunculati sunt. A. pumilus est species dubia verisimiliter sectionis
Cymbopogon.
68. A . Cymbachne; spicula pedicellata 4-glumis, gluma IV"
paleata ; rbacheos articulis non nisi altero margine parcissime ciliatis,
glumas I " (in spicula $ ) callo barbato. — Cymbachne ciliaris Retz
Obs. 6, p . 36 cfr. obs. ad calcem; Rottbosllia Cymbachne Willd.
Spec. 1, p. 465 ; Arthrostachys gracilis Desv. Opusc. p. 74, t. 6, f. 2 ?
(Specimen inferne incompletum vidi.). Culmi glaberrimi, e nodo
penultimo ramum floriferum brevem edentes. Vaginas superiores
subinflatas, nodisque glabra. Laminas anguste hneares, acuminatas,
breves, tenues, basi pilis raris ciliatas, summa abbreviata v. rudimenra