EE 
Panicum.] CXLIV. GRAMINEÆ. 483 
ovoid, acute, straw-coloured, glabrous. Outer glume half the length of 
the spikelet or rather more, broad, acute, 3-nerved; 2nd and 3rd equal, 
acutely acuminate, 7-nerved, both empty. F FONOS lume obtuse, 
smooth, raised above the others by a stipes or prolongation of the 
rhachis, dilated into an orbicular disk or por dius under the glume. 
N. Australia. Victoria River, Elsey. 
36. P. pauciflorum, R. Br. Prod. 191—A low much-branched 
E^ more or = sprinkled with long spreading hairs, rarely quite 
glabrous. Leaves narrow, with short “sheaths, the ligula very short 
or scarcely pro inate ciliate. Panicles in the axils of the numerous 
ral leav , often scarcely exceeding them, redu fe 
Bedieellato glabrous, acute, about 2 lines long. gone fore broad, 
fully half as long as the spikelet, acute, 3- or ‘B-nerved ; “2nd and 3rd 
A equal, acutely acuminate, finely 5- or 7-nerved ; a aut s pa 
in the 3rd. Fruiting glume oblong, rather acute, smooth and shining, 
not much ieee half the length of the other glumes, but raised above 
hem by tipes or rolongation of the rhachis bordered under the 
spiele? by a broad short hyaline membrane. 
N. Australia, Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, 
Var. gsm very much neg = leafy, the a not exceeding 
the floral leaves.—U pper Victoria r, F. Mueller ; in the interior, M‘ Dougall 
Stuart ; near AR Springs, Giles. 
7. P. semitonsum, F. Muell. Herb. inti ergo: apparently 
our 2 ft. high. Leaves narrow, glabro he ligula scarcely 
prominent, minutely ciliate. Panicle narrow, ue, not much branched, 
3 to 6 in. long, the primary branches rather distant, the secondary ones 
Very short, sometimes reduced to clusters of 2 or 3 ; pte Spikelets 
rather erowded, very shortly pedicellate, nearly 2 lines long. 
ni above 4 the length of the spikelet, 
l 
rather larger and more obtuse, thinner, with 5 or 7 nerves and some- 
times a few cilia at the top, enclosing a male flower x a large acute 
palea, Fr uiting glume rather shorter, narrow, acute, sm th. 
N. Australia. Victoria River, Elsey ; near Providence Hill, x Mueller, 
icellate in ihe. pe ra more acumi inate than in 
lines long. Outer glume "Jess than } the length of the aii me 
Sometimes only i e vum acute ; 2nd and 3rd glumes Aggi equal 
