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PLANTS J AV AN ICE RARI0RES. 573

��SCLERACHNE PUNCTATA. lis

Tab. IV.

SCLERACHNE.

Char. Gen. Spicce androgynae, fasciculatae, singnlae involucro monopbyllo foliaceo inclusae ; constantes locusta inferiore (raro duabus) feminea sessili, et altera pedicellata mascula, utraque biflora.

$ Gluma bivalvis, subaequivalvis, nervosa, herbacea ; Jlosculo utroque bivalvi, membranaceo.

$ Gluma bivalvis ; valvida exterior dimidio inferiore cartilagineo peclicellum locustae masculae amplectens, mar- gine altero equitante, superiore compresso semiherbaceo nervoso; interior membranacea, acuminata. Flosculus inferior univalvis, neuter, glumae interiori analogus ; superior femineus, bivalvis, valvis angustatis acutis, stylo bifido, stigmatibus hispidulis.

Gramen glabrum ; culmo ramoso, geniculato ; foliis plants ; liguld drevissimd, ciliatd. Affinitate proxima Coici arun- dinacea, Willd., quae genus proprium (Chionachne) effor- mat, a Coice diver sum defectu veri involucri osseo-carti- laginei; in hac planta enim involucrum auctorum gluma inferior locustae femineae est, ut in Scleradme, a qua Chion- achne distinguitur praesertim tigura et textura uniformi glumae inferioris locustae femineae, et insuper spica locustis masculis pluribus, nee unica, etiam habitu.

Sclerachne punctata, R. Br.

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