Panicum.] CXLIV. GRAMINE. 473 
rigid, with a rather longer point, the palea also "dd but the inflexed mar- 
—F. 
gins thin with a distinct lobe at the base on each si Muell. Fragm. 
viii. 196 ; Urochloa semialata, Kunth, Enum. i 74 Coridochloa semia- 
lata, Nees ,in various catalogues and herbar ia (the genus not via TE 
as ideni quoted in Ediub. New Phil. dosi: 1832, Jul 
tralia, Upper Victoria pr and M‘Adam Range, F. Mueller ; Esc 
cuit, ete Sweers leind. Minne: Pork Dárwin, Seludis, 0/146; 192,662 784, 
801; Port Ess ee Send odds 
nee nslan and Broad Sound, R, Brown ; Endea vour River, 4 
Am: | ES bid, Walt er ; Port Curtis, M*Gilliveray ; Port Denison and 
Rockingham Bay, Dallachy; Re — ees O' Shanesy ; Moreton Bay, C. 
Stuart, Leichhardt, M* PC) ; Warw vic 
N. S. Wales. "Liverpool Plains, 4. Cuni lon Darling Downs, Woolls. 
Extends over tropical Asia from Ceylon and the Peninsula to the Malayan Archi- 
pelago and South China, 
SERIES IIT. PasPALOIDEJX. —Spikelets gives or very shortly pedi- 
collato i iu 1 or 2 rows, very rarely in pairs, along the short simple often 
distant spikes or spikelike branches of the vail, rarely reduced to a 
single terminal one-sided spike. 
14, P. rarum, R. Br. Prod. 189.—Stems ee branching and 
Sometimes creeping at the base, ascending to about 1 ft. aves Ver, 
narrow, glabrous or the lower sheaths slightly his ia S simple, 
N. m os Metu of dis Sae EE R. Brown. 
[45 argenteum, R. Br. Pro € Stems — under 1 ft. 
high. Leaves short, flat, softly se Panicle 
erect slender distant branches, the mn almost filiform. Spikelets 
few, distant, erect, broadly turbinate and as it were truncate, about 
l line long, crowned by long silvery hairs. 
length ot the spikelet, ovate, silky-hairy; 2nd and 3rd glumes both 
pty an 
X a stralia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown 
details i in Trinius' plate appear to be taken from the P. Pueden 
agree with the spikelets examined of Brown's P. argenteum. 
16. P, holosericeum, ZA. Lr. Prod. 190.— Stems from a branching 
The analytical 
‘they ie w not at all 
