482 CXLIY. GRAMINE. [ Panicum, 
glume to 4 as long as the spikelet, rather acute, 1- or 3-nerved ; 2nd 
and 3rd glumes nearly equal, the 2nd broad, usually prominently 7- 
nerved, the 3rd narrower, with about 5 nerves, and enclosing a long 
alea. Fruiting glume tipped with a minute point and minutely 
transversely rugose. 
S. Australia. Near Lake Eyre, Andrews. 
Trinius's plant is from San Domingo in the West Indies, and if it were not on the 
authority of Munro,I should have great hesitation in uniting with it this one from 
Central Australia, 
distant gi , although T 
inflorescence than that of th 
glume t the length of the spikelet, very broad and pei 
pro 9- or 7-nerved, the 2nd glume about twice the length o 1 
lowest and half the 3rd, very broad and obtuse, prominently 9- "e d 
nerved ; 3rd e many-nerved like the 2nd but more acute, grooved 0 
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tracted at the base, transversely rugose. 
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Queensland. Dawson River, F. Muciler : Herbert's Creek, S ker 
latter specimens the rhachis of the panicle-branches is sometimes produce 
the last spikelet into a short awnlike point almost asin Chameraphis. 
34. P. un ulatum, R. Br. Prod. 191.—Glabrous erect = 
much branched, attaining sometimes 8 ft. (F. Mueller), the nodes ke 8 
much thickened. Leaves flat, na i nto- Bor E 
lets few and distant along the branches, usually purplish, 27 to pes 
long. Outer glume lanceolate, about half the length of the sp! 9- 
the 2nd and 3rd nearly equal, acutely acuminate, 7- or some lea in 
nerved, sprinkled with short erect rigid hooked hairs ; a small pale 
the 83rd. Frui ing glume smaller, quite smooth. = 
Queensland. East Coast, R. Brown; Wide Bay, Leichhardt ; Burni EL 
* MM ; Herbert's Creek, Bowman ; Rockhampton, 0' Shanesy, Thozet ; 
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5. P. majusculum, F. Muell, Herb.—Erect, rigid, but not stou 
Leaves flat, sprinkled wk a few long hairs, the orifice of the d ps 
ciliate with long hairs, but no prominent ligula. ` Panicle uae 
Lander spreading rather rigid slightly divided branches, each bear 
l or 2 spikelets on filiform pedicels. Spikelets nearly 3 lines 
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