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478 A A ui CXLIV. GRAMINEX. [Panicum. 
24. E distachyum, Linn.; Kunth, Enu 91.—Stems deeum- 
T or creeping and rooting a at the lower ala, Windt and ascending 
. or rather more. Leaves flat, g abrous or with a few hairs 
2 
-er 
first erect, at length sprea in 
itate, ovoid 13 glabrous 
glume searcely half the length of qus bpikelet; thin, very broad, the 
margins overlapping. each other, 2nd and 3rd glumes nearly equal, 
prominently 3-nerved; a narrow alea in the 3rd. Fruiting glume 
nearly as long, very o obtuse, hardened but the 3 nerves very visible.— 
x sek rer riparum, Trin. Sp ec. Gram. t. 186 (with a loose sparing in- 
florescence). 
Sear Rockhampton, rei are i Bokhara Flats, Leichhardt. 
. Australia. Near Lake Eyre, 
; rem distributed over East India a Pm Malayan Archipelago. 
5. P. reversum, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 152.—A weak glabrous 
glaucous much-branched grass. Leaves long and narrow. 
A 
Spikelets not numerous, alternate and distant along the rhachis 80 as 
to appear in one row, ovoid- oblong, fully 2 lines long in some e 
mens, rather under 2 lines in Drummond's. Outer glume 3-nerve 
o tuse, at least $ the length of the ikelet, 2nd and Ah 
glumes equal, many-nerved, both empty in the spikelets I examin d 
but F. ips funi a palea in the 3rd. Fruiting glume hardene 
as in the gen 
S. Australia. Near Lake TN -Andrews ; Lake Amadeo, Giles. 
W. Australia, Drummond ; rotg River, [NEA 
This s species seems to show di to the Plagiosetum 
refractum. PE 
SERIES se “a a —Spikelets sessile and c rowded in vr 
or 4 rows ong the simple alternate usually secun d 
1 or aeea Disada of the panicle. Glumes sometimes awn? 
P. colonum, Zinn.—Stems erect or decumbent at the base, 2 
ft. ne or more. Tok flat, glabrous. Panicle of several (about x 
or io simple one-sided distant and usuall eei branches or ile 
in. long, and not diminishing much upwards. Sp ike 
1 line ‘long, ovoid, sessile and densely crowded in about t-4 ro 
