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T A B . loo. I S CH/ EMU M HISPIDUM.
Foliis vagioisque piloso-scabris; panicxila Terlicillala, coarctata, strida; verticillo
infimo distante^ spiculis geminis, conformibus; altera longius pedicellata;
flore inferiore neutro; superiore hermaplirodito, aristato, basì barbato et articulato;
glumis herbaceis, inferiore tri-, superiore quinquenervia.
Iscbainium bispidum
Andropogon bispidus
Andropogon vireus 1. 28
Arundinella MikaniiVees 2.
Arundinella brasiliensis
Goldbacbia Mikani 2.
Riedelia Mikani
A i r a brasiliensis
Crescit in INova Andalusia, Regno Quilensi (monte Anlisanaa) et Imperio
Brasilieusi V.
Radixfil)rosa. Cuiimis erectus, simplex, tripedalis, crassitiepennos aiiserinas, teres, strialus,
glabrinsculus; nodi pubescentes. Folia linearía, apice angusta Io-sub ulata, plana, rigida, nniltinervia,
nervis subtus prominulis, utrinque piloso-seal) f a , margine scabra, subtus pallidioi-a,
9-io-pollicaria el loEgiora, 4-4; Uneas lata. Vagina teretes, slrlatas, hirsuto-pilosa;, prajsertim
apicem versus, 4-9-poIlicares, internodia lequautcs vcl siiperaDtes. Ligula brevissima, pilosa.
Panicula ramosa, coarctata, slricta, g-io-pollicaris; ramls fasciculato-v erti cilla tis, simplicibiis
et ramosis, adpressis, triquetris, filiibrmibus, angulis scabris, iì-2j-pollicaribus, a basi ad apicem
spiculis obsitis, baud articulalis; verticillis approximatis, infimo distaule; inlernodiis superioribus
poUicaribus, infimo Iripollicaii ; vìiachi sulcalo-angulata, subscabvinscula. Spicul® geminse,
altera longius, altera bi'evius pedicellata, magnitudine cpquales et piane conformes, bifloraj ;
pedicellis scabris j longioiibus spicula dimidio brevioribus. Flores sessUes, glumis breviores;
inferior neuter; superior bermaphroditus. Glum® dna;, herbacea3, virides vel viridi-puipurascentes;
inferior a superiore parum remola, ovato-oblonga, acimiinata, navicular!-casinala,
trinervia; nervis promiuentibus scabris; gluma superior i longior, ovalo-lanceolala, superne
angustala, obtusiuscula, (juin(jueuerv¡a, nervis prominulis, superne evanescentibus, cariiiatoconcava,
carina superne scabra. Flos neuter basi baud arliculatus : Palea: duaj, membranacea,
glabra,*; inlerior ovato-oblonga, ob tuso-trunca ta, superne subquinquenervia, carinato-concava ;
superior brevior, ovato-oblonga, obtusa, binervia, dorso planiuscula, marginibus infiexis.
Squamulcc dure, minutai, falcato-oblonga), hyalince. Genitalia nulla, nisi rudimenta minutissima.
Flos hei-maphroditns basi barbatus, articulatus et c glumis decidens : Palea; dua; ; inferior ovata,
ü'inervia, apice aristata, membranacea, concava, margiuibus involulis, externe scabra ; arisU
scabra, palea triplo longior, basi liaudarticúlala, lertia parte, inferiore, complanata, spiraliter
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