Eriochloa.] CXLIV. GRAMINE. 463 
2. E, ann ulata, Kunth, Enum. i. 73.—A smaller and more slender 
slender, 1 to 1; in. long, the main axis ot the inflorescence as well as 
i much less | airy than in that d 3- or rarely 5-nerve 
ing el p the same.— Paspalum annulatum, Flügge ; Trin. Spee. 
ram 
Queensland. Brisbane sae F. Mueller, Prentice; Rockhampton, Thozet, 
Bowman ; "Darling Downs, 
Var. aerotrieha, Spikelets — a Se -e me age a d. more my, 
and the hairs of the pedicels mo few riene T 
thachis.—Helopus acrotrichus, Steud. Bie: Doa 1 
N. S. Wales. Camden County and fie Woolls; Maneroa, Mrs. 
Calvert ; also in Idakher ‘dé’s collection. 
The species is by some regarded as a variety of E. punctata. 
* 3. PANICUM, Linn. 
Pare Scop. ; rangi Beauv. ; ee Nees.) 
‘pikelet ; barren awnlike es none, or very rarely a single 
one. Glumes usually 4, the outer one smaller than the others, not awned, 
often ve small, defieient only in P. gibbo e 2nd 
oe of the est genera of Graminew, abundantly represented in all tropical 
wquntries, a o beyond the tropics in ihe Old World, and a some- 
I per us ro North America. Of the 53 Australian species, 3 are common 
-— tries, = are more or less generally. spread over tropical Asia, 
y e than c T into Africa, and a e of them dnd alsoin America, 2 have 
Yet been identified ‘only with tropical American species, and 35 are as far as 
though 3 of them are AANI allied jo Am eriean species. 
species are also ia a as escapes from cultivation. 
ue great differences in inflo orescence, a character admitted as generic in most 
Graminese, has induced the division of Banicum ab NE genera more or less 
Nen aee by Nees, Kunth and others, but ther many intermediate species 
Be c the different a or series s that I iey ds succeeded in giving charac- 
: oT nough to define them even as sections, 
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