460 CXLIV. GRAMINES. [ Paspalum. 
ne oid 2 to 5, usually distant. ee orbicular or 
oadly ovate, obtuse, about 1 line long . 1, P. serobiculatum. 
Spikes 2 2 alone together or Pisa ps Spikelets 
e-oblong, acute o 13 t 
jon 2. P. distichum. 
Spikes 3 or È digitate or nearly | 80. Spikelets ovate j 
about $ li 3. P. brevifolium. 
me rather i Me airo Spikelets narrow- é 
e, about 2 line lon . 4, P. minutiflorum. 
(See also Panicum REEL in which the outer glume is deficient.) 
P. Sieberianum, Steud. Syn. Glum.: i. 17, is the common American P. conjugatum, 
Berg., published a s Australian on the authority of the specimens of Sieber’s Agros- 
totheca, n. 127, whith are however West Indian 
1. P. scrobiculatu Linn.; Kunth, Enum. i, 53.—Erect or 
ascending, jedes 1 ie 2 ft., the Australian specimens glabrous or 
rarely with a few long hairs at the base of the leaf-blades. Spikes 
varying from 2 to 5, alternate, spreading, usually distant, 1 to 2 or 
rarely nearly 3 in. long, the*rhachis usually flat and about. 1 line broad, 
i i. 156; P. orbiculare, Forst.; R. Br. Prod. fn 
i: po letchqun, a dd P. pubescens, R. Br. Le “iP. metabolon, Stew 
yn. 
. Aus Me Islands snf the Gulf of Eie R. Brown; M'Adam cred 
and Hoper Ri ver, P. M ; between Norman and Gilbert Rivers, Guk» 
cae e and, J tus s sca Cliffs, Hulse; Sims Island, A: Cunningham llachy ; 
mberland Islands, R. Brown ; Rockingham Bay, Da River, 
I Denison, 4 Fisa.. Ped Island and Port Curtis, ' M*Gillivr ay ; Brisbane ; 
ue astings 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Woolls ; H 
and Macleay Rivers, Beckler 3 Clarence River, Wilcox. 
EI Je epa end subtropical Asia an rica. AN of m 
entures t in 
midrib chiefly prominen 
cultivated vat marginal onos atthe typical P. pendant 
Linn. ; 52.— Stems often creep- 
- fit P, distichum, Ii n. Ties Enum. i. : dbi ostromi 
ties varying from short and vire covered with the leaf-sheat®s 
r 
slender 1 ft. Jong or more with the leaves distant. Leaves eithe 
