468 CXLIV. GRAMINER. [ Panicum. 
branching base sometimes under, sometimes much above 1 ft. hi 
Leaves glabrous or more or less pubescent or softly villous, the are 
not prominent a not ciliate. Panicle of rather numerous rigidly 
or the 8rd rarely with a minute rudimentary palea, the 2nd usually s 
nerved, the "o -nerved. Fruitiug glume ovoid, not gibbous, glabrous, 
smooth, acu 
There appear to be ge on marked varieties; but scarcely dofinite enough to 
be ETE as distinct speci 
1. glaberrimwm, Ste , branches of the panicle —— more than 8 in. 
long, the whole plant enr Spikelets 14 lines long, glabro k 
Queenslan: Roc rn and pervium Thozet, O'Shanesy ; Pea 
HS = kitt; Darling Downs, Lau 
Foliage glabrous or nearly so. ceteris 4 to 8 in. long. 
Bpiieleta rt p long, silky- UR ei nearly glabrous 
cap pte ue ia T Brown 
. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown. 2 
emmophilum. Foliage softly villous. Spikelets small, covered eigens 1853, 
baie spreading when in fruit.— P. ammophilum, F. Muell. in Trans. V 
S. Wales. Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers, F. Mueller, thence to 
Mak t Goningberi Victorian Expedition. 
af tralia. Lake Amadeus, Giles. 1 
radiatum, gee M villous. Spikelets small, glabrous or near? 
P a R. Br. P 
Queensland. rhc Lockyer ; i ge Barton, 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Bro 
y 80.— 
but 
gum 
um, Be nth. —Alli ed t DF. iie se 2 git, 
Besa ones 
ost sessile, 
b rved, ciliate with 
feid be e ont rather longer, very promine ntly 8-nerved, “Flowering 
RENNA 0 Shanesy ; Herbert's Creek, Bowman; Warwi 
B. — = Leichhardt' s collection. 
oolly 
4. P, papposum, E. Br. Prod. 192.—Stems from a V pe 
Hec Ulm rhizome 2 ft. high or more. Leaves flat, us sually long 
