(10 minute) Anephora aphyllura Steud bya Hum, n.p. III Near Eagle Pass Schott, no 279 Mr. & 785 Col of 1849. Tepas, Dumont 359 of 2 Col; Ariscensia, Dr. Searle. north - Kernimal, Aphyllura, Culms slender 3-6" high. Sheaths shorter than the internodes sometimes pale or the throat; leaves narrow linear, leucaceous green trite at apex, the lower elongated, densely, or scanty on culm, the upper 2 or 3 approximate this dilute membranous struts sheathing for a kind of involucra which closely unites the flowers. All smooth or pilose with scattered hairs especially near the base. Spikelets 2-4 somewhat capitulate, common rachis slender smooth - partial rachis contracted so as to bring the flowers into a more or less globose head which is short pedicellate, the pedicels hairy at base. Spikelet 1 flowered: outer lemma indurated & thickened, confluent with the rachis at base the narrow line - leaving a rounded sides between each pair dry two florets spikelets? A irregularly oblong (?) contracted at base & then the apex which is trifid. Obisina pubescent &e somewhat spreading the central largest - All three or four greight - half the length o Glume smooth or finely scabrous, often longitudinally corrugated, flowers glume more or less abortive - floretlets inflorescence. Ductus or irregularly 2-fid - flowers silky in ducti spikelets, closely surrounded by the lower glume lower palea densely the top lower glume clavy - 3 fid at apex (3 nect., ovular & somewhat