480 CXLIV. GRAMINES. [ Panicum. 
Siegen tes V. MYUROIDEA. —Spikelets not silky, crowded and elus pe 
a dense continuous or rarely interrupted cylindrical spikelike 
oe 
Spikelets ovoid, Else 1 to ds line load elustered and crowded ins 
continuous and dense cylindrical spike or spikelike panicle 1 d - 
long and not above 2 lines diameter, often dark-coloured. Ou 
hy 3-nerved ; 2nd and 3rd glumes nearly equal, broad, 9- or Mayr m. 
minute palea in "the axil of the 3rd.— P. angustum, Trin. Spec. 
en t. 334. 
N. Australia. Victoria River, F. Mueller ; Port Darwin, Schultz UN 
Que a d. Endeavour River, Banks and Solander, A. ei Pe 
River, F. Mueller. didi 
e species extends over roS Asia and Africa, but is ees common * rk 
rage: with ve it is viter in the Hong Kong per an y F. Mue — Ka 
It appears however to be c aktais distinct in oe very 8 
spikelets with i as xe very cares and only slightly ciliate. 
29. P. indicum, — Kunth, Enum. i. 133.--Stems decumbent 
t 
at the base, ascending to 6 or 8 in. in the smaller var rieties, ed rire 
high in the larger ones. ede narrow. Spikelike panicle cy'n = 
continuous or rarely interrupted, 4 in. or in some yarietigs A 
e , 
half the length of the spikelet or rather more, : he 
d gibbous at the base, often ciliate, 7- or 9-nerved, 3r ue 
same length but straighter and neither gibbous nor ciliate, »» Si 
ea in its e Suites ctm “ged shorter.— 
ustrali 
oci Norman = — Rivers, Gul bane 
eavour River, hake gor Solander ; Wide Bay and Bris 
— Leichhardt ; Moreton Bay, C. Stuart 
an Wales. aramatta, Wo abe. 
Prod. 18 
b ede b over tropical Asia and Africa. P. phleoides, R. 2 slender, with 
ie seectly the typical form PaA in Herb. Linn., small an s le js the 
a short spike of 4 to 1 in. and rather small spikelets. P. arcuatum, = ad er ins 
pe ps the tnost-ccentnon form, with rather larger more urved sp ; 
spike of 1 to 2in. The two run very much into ieri other 
the 
30. P. myurus, Lam.; Kunth, Enum. i. S6.—A tall gre he 
lower part Yee under water often thick and rooting at the je xui 
upper part nie ees to 4 tt. high, quite glabrous. Leaves flat, 3 
lobed and intefr Epitt at the base, 8 in. to above 1 ft. long. B ind 
crowded along the short erect branches. Outer glume tm 
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