TAB. 178. CHLORTS TMUCATA.
Culniis gcniculato-adsccüdenlibus, basi repeutibus vaginisque compressis, glabri
», ore pilosis; foliis distichis, acutatis, planis, interne margineque scabris; spicis
corapluribus, digitalis, divaricatisi spiculis bifloris; flore utroque longissime aristalo;
hermapbrodito basi barbato, superne ad marginem cibato ; sterili pedicellato,
unipalcaceo, obUque trúncalo, rudimentum terlii includente.
Chioris trúncala Bromi, Prodr. i.pag. x86., Link, Hort. Berol. i.pag. S8.
Chloris dolicbostacliya Lagasca, Elench.pag. S., Spreng. Neue Entd. 3.p. 116.
(teste Link.)
Chloris megastacbja Sciirad. Hort. Gcetl. 1., Schuh. Mant. 2.p.33o. (teste
Link.)
Chloris elongala Encyd. Sappi. 2. p. 236. (teste specim.)
Crcscit iu Nova Hollandia inquc iusulis Philippiüis et Timor.
Culmi geniculato-adscendentes, basi ramosi? repentes et folios!, compressi, striati, glabri,
bipedales et altiores; nodis constrictis, imberbibus. Folia linearia, aculata, striato-y-g-Dervia,
nervo medio crassiore, subtus prominente, plana, membranacea. Iste viridia, externe glabra,
interne roargineípie scabra, supra ligukm pilis longis moUibus obsita, 6-7-pollicafia, ses-
(juilineam lata, iofima disücbo-appioximata. Vagina» compresso-cavioatas, striata?, glabrce,
virides, inlernodia multo superantes, distichce, lajle virides, solutje, tripoUicares; somma
6-7-poIlicai'is. Ligula: margo membranaceus, angustus, undulatus, dense ciliolalus.
Spicaa ii-i4, in apice culmi digitato-congestx, sessiles, recUe, divaricai®, sexpollicares;
rhacliis semiteres, recta, externe convexa et scabriuscula, interne subcanaliculata,
angulis serrulalo-scabra. Spicula; unilaterales, pediceUatte, solitari», alternas, blseriataj, tri-
Ilora:, absque aristis sesquilineam longce ( pedicello complanato, margine cLliato-hispido ) ; flos
inferior hermaphroditus, bipaleaceus, basi attenuatus etsericeo-barbatus; superiores steriles,
pedicellali, unipaleacei; alter aristatus, alterum multo minorem muticum includens; interdum
ex sterilibus inferior palea superiore genitali busque effelis instructus, superior unipaleaceus,
brevissime aristatus. Glumaj dux, iucequales, uninervice, carinate, tenuiter membranáceas,
acutalo-Diucronal®, superne purpurascentes, carina serrulalo-scabra?, patulse, persistentes j
inferior (interior) dimiciio brevior, ovaio-lanceolata, glabra; superior (exterior) flores paulo
superans, oblongo-! ance oíala, dorso strigulosa. Flos hermaphroditus : pale;« dua;; inferior el-
Uplico-obloQga, sub apice emarginato-bidenlalo aristata, carinato-triangularis, superiorem
auiplúcleus, trinervia, nei'vis viridibus, duobus lateralibus margini approximaiis, superne piloso
cilialis, chartaceo-mejjibranacea, dorso obsolete strigulosa, virescens, fructífera nigrofusca;
arista setacea, scabra, virescens, recta vel subuudolato-flexa, palea sua triplo quadruplo
ve loti gior; palea superior paulo brevior, spalhulato-oblonga, obtusa, si^emarginaU, biuervia,
bicarinata, liyalino-membrauacea, glabra; cannis arcuads, dense cilialis. Squamulaí
ckia; aulica;, collalerales, subcuneataj, oblique truncalce, integras, carnoso-membranaceas,
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