Paspalum.} CXLIV: GRAMINEZX. 461 
linear-laneeolate and flat or involute and almost subulate, — or 
ith a few long hairs at the orifice of the sheath and base of the 
lamina, Spikes 2, close together or the lowest at a distance of 1 to 2 
lines, quite glabrous, = dorum et above 4 
alone perceptible.—F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 156; P. littorale, R. Br. 
Prod. 188 ; ; Trin. Spec. Gram. i. t. 112. 
Queensland. Rockhampton, 0’ Shanesy ; Condamine River, Hartm 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackso n, R. Brown, Woolls, C. Moore ; o eigai River, 
Danger, tribe Hodghi (n80n. 
Victo Yarra-Yar 
Ww Hastati: Murchison RIA Oldfield. 
yuy distributed over the tropical regions of both the New and the Old 
orld. 
3. P. brevifolium, Fliigge ; Kunth, Enum. i. 48.—Stems from a 
creeping or much-branched base erect, slender, 1 ft. high or rather 
Leaves May narrow, flat, the sheaths usually villous or pu- 
es 
rather Dite; "ac equal, thin, fos & 5-nerved.— Panicum tenuiflorum, 
R. Br. Prod. 193. 
Queensland. Keppel Bay, R. Brown ; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, 
Padey ; 3 dhcp. bee: Herbe rt's Creek, Bowman ; Archer’s Flat, Leich- 
ardt ; Rocki nn Bay, Dallachy 
N. sow ales. Port Jackson, us Brown. 
Var, propi, nquum. Rather taller. Leaves rather longer. Spikes 2to 3 in, long. 
~ Panicum mimea R Br. Prod. 193. 
N. A alia. Gulf of Carpentaria, 2. Brown; between M*Adam Range and 
Providence B Hu. F. Mueller. 
The species is widely spread over tropical Asia. 
4. P. minutiflorum, Steud. Syn. Glum.i.17.—A rather tall imper 
Brass, closely Menem at first sight the Panicum parvi 
but with the characters of Paspalum, and nearly allied to PE [ides min 
ves flat, rather long and narrow, the ligula short, not ciliate. 
Spikes or panicle-branches rather numerous, filiform, alternate or the 
