Panicum.] CXLIV. GRAMINE. 469 
narrow, the lower ones softly ar the upper ones more glabrous ; 
ligula rather long, -membrauot us anicle-branches numerous, slender 
ad in the kxnidit form with peri silky hairs spreading when in 
fruit. Outer glume minute or sometimes w wanting, 2nd and 3rd equal, 
3-nerved, both einpty or the 3rd with a rudimentary palea. Fruiting 
glume rather acute, smooth and shining. 
N. Australia. Arnhem South Bay, R. Brown. 
Var. leiostachyam. Spikelets glabrous, otherwise quite vise —P. autumnale, 
F. Muell. Fragm. viji. 196, but not of Bosc.—Sweers Island, Henn 
5. P.s anguinale, Linn.; Kunth, Enum. i. 82.—Decumbent and 
often korty creeping and rooting at the base, ascending to 1 ft. or 
rather more. Leaves flaccid, flat, u sually pubescent and sprinkled 
long ime d all Froni nearly the same point or shortly distant, n e 
in. or insome varieties above 4 in. long, the rhachis slender 
angular flexuose, scabrous-ciliate. Spikelets in uni one ie ; 
sessile the other podicell te ohang, rather acute, about 13 lines loug. 
Outer glume minute, rare y above ¢ line long, Jud zia lanceolate, 
3-nerved, from 4 to the length of the spikelet, 3rd glume usually 5- 
nerved, glabrous or slightly ciliate in m Australian specimens, empty 
Fruiting glume shorter, smooth.—- e E igi- 
aria sanguinalis, "e Reichb. le. Fl. Germ. t 
- Australia, Port Essington, drmst 
Br Miriam aud pedeseti dA ood, O' Shanesy, Bowman and others ; 
Slane ae MAR osi 22 Mu — Bailey and othe 
B. N. rt Jac Brown, Woolls mig others ; Clarence Riv m 
Eur b E iae River, Mos Polidpbinson ; New England, C. Stuart ; Lord How 
oore. 
; k. Towang, Se sión dul 
W. Australia. Busselto 
th A common weed in most warm countries. Most of the a specimens hav 
wie Sanne glabrous or neurly so. Some, however, have them more or less ciliate te 
Re Soft hairs on the n » JH nerves or margins, which voot the P. ciliare, 
^ Kunth, Enum. 1 
the 
lotos or eperen 2 D an, from the end of the icu, 1i 
to 2} in. long. Spikelets in rather distant pairs, appressed to the 
| wuachis, one sessile the other pedicellate, both 2 to ver? 3 lines iong, 
with a minute almost m icroscopic outer glume, the 2nd glume 
