Panicum.] CXLIV. GRAMINEJX. 471 
both emp vam where obtuse, the 2nd usually 3-nerved, the 3rd 5- 
nerved. ng glume as long, more acute, smooth. 
Queensland. POTES pio. O'Shanesy, Thozet ; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, 
F. Miter: tga d and other 
N. s. ackso wn, Woolls; New England, €. Stuart 
Clare se Riven, 2 Beckior, Wilooz ; Ohne River, Mrs. Hodgkinson ; also in Z Leich- 
hardt's s collectio: 
Var. pilosa, more or less hairy.—Moreton Bay, Bailey. 
P. striatum, R. Br. Prod. 192 (P. ee Spreng. Syst. i. os EE em Botany e 
Banks and Solander, and Port Jackso a . Brown, appears to me to be a form o 
P. parviflorum with the outer glume qui ik Lilo ts decies 
80 as to bring it near some Paspala, but thes pisos are not flattened. rth the. een 
characters are those of P. parviflorum., P. ramulare, Trin, Gram. 
244, not taken up by Kunth, appears from the character given not rh differ r rou 
P. parviflorum, 
10. P. Baileyi, Benth.—A glabrous rather slender grass of 13 to 2 
feet, with the inflorescence 2 P. parv — but the spikelets rather of 
P divaricatissim mu Lea ue ga the ligula shortly pd 
scarious, not ciliate. Paniele of hovers ¢ simple filiform branches of 3 o 
= , all distant or the upper ones rather crowded or the lower ones 
metimes clustered non Setia Spikele * narrow-ovoid, rather 
wate, pearly 1 line long, mostly in pairs, one on a much longer pedicel 
- Fruiting glume acute, smooth ad shining. 
Queensland. Port Curtis, M‘Gillivray ; Brisbane River, Bailey. 
ERIES IL. Tricnacunex.—Spikelets silky-hairy or fringed with 
long ed sessile or shortly pedicellate, elustered or rarely in pairs 
along the rhachis of the simple spikelike panicle or of the 2 or3 long 
erect branches 
ll. P. gibbos sum, A. Br. Prod. 193.— Erect, branching at the 
base, 1 to 14 ft. high. Leaves narrow, erect, glabrous except a few 
hairs atthe orifice of the sheaths. — simple, spikelike, slender 
but dense, 2 to 3 in. long, with a flexuose rhachis, or very rarely 2 
pl 
long, with a few long cilia usually ^" Min base, or on the icel. Outer 
glume deficient; empty glumes 2, covered with long silky ien thelowest 
t dis 
What gibbous at the base, with a rather proved keel.—Kunth, 
Revis. Gram. t. 105; F. Muel. Fragm. viii. 
N. Australia. North Coast, R. Brown ; Victoria River, F. Mueller. i 
Queensland. Rockhampton, O'SAanesy. 
