Panicum.] CXLIV. GRAMINER. 477 
has been adopted as the oldest by Steudel and others, but Poiret's description does 
pn apply to our plant, and Munro has seen authentic specimens which are quite 
ifterent, 
Spikelets closely resembling in size and shape those of P. helopus, 
: : in 
e 
hairs, with a broad hyaline palea in its axil; fruiting glume much 
shorter, coriaceous, obtuse with the point or short awn of P. helopus. 
Central Australia. Charlotte Waters, Giles. 
22. P. piligerum, F. Muell. Herb—Closely resembles some of 
the longer more hairy specimens of P. helopus. Leaves rather narrow, 
6to8in. long. Panicle of 3 to 5 erect simple branches 1 to near 
m. long. Spikelets ovoid, acute, nearly 2 lines long, alternate along 
the rhachis but rather distant so as to appear in a single row. Glumes 
ary, the outer e d 
me third rather narrower than the 2nd but both empty and equal 
Panicle slender, of few distant simple slender secun ading 
branches e lower ones 13 in. lo he upper ones shorter. 
Spikelets rather distant along the rhachis, alternate but in 2 
ong as the spikelet, broad, rather acute, 3-nerved, the 2nd and 
3rd nearly equal, the 2nd with five, the 8rd with three prominent 
nerves, arrow palea in the 3rd glume. Fruiting glume smooth 
or minutely rugose under a strong lens.—Trin. Spec. Gram. t. 177 ; 
F. Muell. fun. iii TO 
N. Australia, Islands off the North Coast, R. Brown; Port Essington, Arm- 
strong ; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 34, 148, 191, 818. 
