Panicum. | CXLIV. GRAMINEJE. 481 
hyaline, L-nerved, macronate-acute, under 1 line long, inserted (alw ays 4 
nerv 
o t 
5-nerved, usually with a small palea in "he axil. Flowering glume 
pe, thin and hyaline at the time of flowering, sli zy stiffened but 
not hardened round the fruit.— Zymenachne myurus auv. Agrost. 
2t 10. f. 8, and with some other species, Nees, pe: Brasil. "273; 
P. interruptum, Wild. ; Kunth, Enum. i. 87. 
CAREI Trinity Bay, Bailey. 
A r common tropical grass in the New and the Old World. The thinner 
consistency of the fruiting glume might Cani the taking the species as the type of 
ction, but Scarcely of a distinct genu 
s VL Panrovrnats.——Panicle-branches usually more or less 
divided. Spikelets all pedicellate, except in the first four species which 
approach the Paspaloideæ. 
31. P. foliosum, R. Br. Prod. 191.—Stems 1 to 2 ft. high, (iir 
bent at the base. Leaves rather broad, usually pubescent, the ne 
like margins often undulate. Panicle loose, w with few distant aingie 
branches, the rhachis flexuose and slender, the lower branches some- 
times 2 to 3 in. long. Spikelets few, distant, almost sessile or dis- 
tinetly pedieellate, and the lower pedicels sometimes bearing 2 spike- 
lets, all above 2 lines long in the typical furm, ovoid, acute, pubescent 
or glabrous. Outer glume about half as long as the spikelet, very 
broad, acute, with about 7 nerves, 2ud and 3r D eo nearly 
r in 
glume minutely rugose without the point of P. jc m m allies, 
but usually with a short callous incurved tip.—F. Muell. Fragm. 
viii, 194. 
Queensland. Bustard Bay, Banks and Solander ; Keppel Bay, R. Brown ; Rock- 
hampton, O'Shanesy, inia Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, Leichhardt, C. Stuart, 
N.S. Wales. Clarence River, Bekler. 
? Petiveri. Panicle smaller but rather more branched. Spikelets more 
"s merous and much sean: sd der 2 lines long, the lower ones on the lower primary 
branches sometimes several together on sho. P. Petiveri, Trin 
i Gram. To e heel common pear to belong some 
ye 
E ndia, 
ecimens trom the is slan ds off the North Seem R. pee dase WI presume to be 
d. 190. 
rathe 2 k 
erect or slightly. d branehes, all glabrous without any or wit 
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