474 CXLIV. GRAMINER. [ Panicum. 
base, erect, slender, mostly under 1 ft. high, more or less hairy as well 
as the foliage. Leaves short, narrow, acute, y very spreading, the nerve- 
d glu 
nate, 3 nerred laini the end. 3rd e; me ‘nearly ior fus and empty 
but rather longer, 5-nerved at the end, with a longer s 
ue Gam . 18; Trin. Bed shine t. 173. 
W. Australia. ae of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. ye "ig ; Victoria Tan 
F. Mueller ; Port D arwin, Schultz, n. 14, 113, 136, 13 Arnhem’s Lan 
: 8, 
McKinlay ; the latter verae with smaller spikelets, se ra those of 
argenteum, but not trunca 
- flavidum, Retz, Obs. iv. 15.— Stems erect, brancbing at the 
bas is, Mes rigid, attaining 1 to 2 ft. or rather more. Leaves acute, 
sometimes rather broad but the margins involute when dry, deve 
bi t a few short hairs at the ori of the sheath. Panicle o 
several often numerous erect distant branches or sessile spikes, the 
lowest sometimes above i in. long, the one: shorter, the rhachis 
flexuose, slightly dilated, Spikelets sessile in the 
typical form very oblique, ovoid, about 1 2 lines long or rather mo : 
several Australian specimens. Outer glume very short, broad an 
obtuse, the second glume the largest, broad, several-nerved, very 
palea large and broad in the typical form but no stamens. lowering 
glumes usually shortly acuminate.—R. Br. Prod. 190; P. brizoides, 
Jacq. f. Ecl. Gram. 2, t. 2, Trin. Spec. Gram. t. 158. 
N. Australia. Upper Victoria River, F, Mueller ; the specimens quite similar to 
Indian ones. 
d. Herbert's Creek, Bowman; Peak Downs, Burkitt ; Springsure 
Wuth, the spikelets rather r larger than us usually in India. 
Var. cepi Spikelets rather small, not iine 80 secet = palea within the 
third glum usually very ry small, the fruiting glum 
d. Endeavour River, a and sas Warwick, Beckler. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson I rown; Camden, Wolls ; in the interior, 4- 
Cunningham ; New England, C. $ 
The species extends over pia 2 ees or America. 
5 ia, but apparently not into Africa 0 
It has ie united by S Rede. Fragm. vii. 189, with the fellawing Fry: the 
2 0 
ame, ‘The original P. brizoides, Linn., is shown by his herbarium as by his descrip 
tion to be the as his P. c, sais izoiden of Retz, Obs. v. 18, and Wil. 
ntly tbe P: fuitans, Retz, Obs. iii. 8, which he had origina Y 
; A ’ 
escribed imperfectly and therefore 
sent from Indi Peces rae aac aleae 
an -aquatic species : 
in the whole genus by the the second glume short and Ta a eg like the first. This 
