TAB. I58. R A T Z E B Ü R G I A puLcnEuMMi
Rottboellia pulcherrima TVnllich. mss.
Cresci!, m India orientali.
Gl'amen csspitosum, procumbens, stolomferumj radicibus librosis j librls filiformi bus, flesiiosis,
fxiscescentibus, villosis. Culmi diffusi, simplices, filiformes, teretes?, ad nodos inferiores geniculati,
glabri, apice mooostachyi, 8-ia-poUicares; noclis contractis, imberbibus, nigiis. Folia
linearia, apice rotundata, plana vei complicata, rigida, striata, nervo medio subtus proraioente,
margine crassiuscula et scabra, supra glabra, subtus pilis rarts conspersa, tardius glabrata, 8-20
lineas longa, i Jlineam lataj in culmis sterili bus abbreviatis disticho-patiJa. Vagince uscpie ad
basim fissK, compresso-carinatas, striatic, glabros, inferiores nodis longiores, superiores iis dimidio
breviores, in culmis slerilibus disücho-imbricat®. Ligula exserta, rotundata, membranacea,
glabra. Spica esumma vagina longe esserta, linearis, spiculis parallele compressa, recta,
tardius arliculata, 2-2 5-polli caris ; rhacbis spiculis contrarie geoicidato-flesuosa, triangularis;
externe planiuscula, trisulcata, viridis et glabra; interne ad angulum prominentem pubescens.
Spiculce tres in quolibet articulo ; duo laterales a3quales, ferliles, sessiles, per glumas interiores
inter se contigua;, rhacliim ad unum, spiculam pedicellatam tabescentem ad altei-um latus margini -
busspectantes, articulum paulo super antes, oblongo-ellipticaj, glumis parallele compressa;, biflora;;
flores sessiles; inferior uoipalaceus, ueuter; superior subbipaleaceus, bermaphroditas. Spicuia
intermedia pedicellata, tabesceos, ad squamulam paryam, ovatam, oblusam, glabram, cuculiato
complicatam, cum pedicello continuam redacta; pedicellus adscendenti-erectus, longitudine
fere articuli eigne oppositus, liber, subtriangularis, externe canaliculatus, glaber, interne ad
angulum prominentem pubescens. Glumce du®, insquales ; inferior (exterior) elliptíco-oblonga,
convexiuscula, coriacea, apicemembranaceo-producto,bifido(lobislatis, truncato-rotundatis,
ad marginem glumas decni'renlibus ), novemoei v ia, nervis quatuor marginalibus obsolelis,
quincjue dorsalibus prominentibus, per venas transversas eleganler anastomosantibus, intervallis
profunde favoso-excavatis, albida, glabra, margine incrassala et argute dentala, dentibus incrassatis
obtusis, dorso lineolis sangnineis obsita ; gluma superior { exterior ) lon^tudine inferior sed
absque appendice, oblonga, acntiuscula, trinervia, nervis lateralibus margini approximatis ,
subcoriaceo-membranacea, planiuscula, margiuibus involutis, albida, externe pilis puncluliformibus
obsita. Flos inferior {gluma; extfiriori contignus ) nnipaleaceus, neuter, gluma superiore
paulo brevior; palea inferior oblonga, obtusa, tcnuissime membranacea, hyafina, enervia,
convexiuscula; marginibus inflexis, superne ciliatis. Palea superior, squamula; et genitalia plane
nulla. Flos hermaphrodilus : palea inferior gliuna; interiori contigua, flore neutro paulo brevior,
oblonga, acuta, tenuissime membranacea, hyalica, subconcava, enervia, glabra; palea superior
minutissima, ovai'io climidio brevior, lata, irregulariler triloba, lobo metlio irregulariter bidenlato,
hyalino-membranacea. Stamina ti'ia, hypogyna; duo lateralia; unum antoriiis, paulo
longius, paleas esteriori contiguum. Filamenta capillacea, glabra. Antliera; oblongo-lineares,
utrinque bifida;, pallide crocete, glabra;, lobis obtusiusculis, biloculares, secundum lougiludinemdehiscentes.
Polfiois graniJa minutissima, siUjglobosa, hyalina. Squamula; duce, anticx,
iriangnlari-dolabiiformes, apice iucc<|uaHter repando-ìjilobce, carnoso-inembranacea:, glabra;.
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