Panicum.) CXLIV. GRAMINER. 487 
branches. Spikelets a all pedicellate, the upper ones of each 
primary branch solitary, the lower ones 2 or 3 together on short 
secondary branches, all breed. 1 to 13 lines long, quite glabrous, 
rather obtuse. Outer glume short, broad, nerveless, truncate or shortly 
acute, the 2nd and 3rd equal or nearly so, membra anous, 5-nerved, 
both empty. Fruiting glume rather acute, smooth and shining. 
N. S. Wales. oe of ponds, Port Jackson and Richmond, Woolls; New 
England, C. Stuart 
The shape x tho spikelets and ipe! would suggest that this might be a very 
reduced form of P. decompositum, but none of the rather numerous specimens show 
any tendency do a furthe lopment ine there is da vestige of a palea in the 3rd 
glume. ]tis dou ubtfully referred by F. Mueller, Fragm. viii. 195, ia P. hygrocharis, 
Ste ud., an Aby yssinian plant named P. paludosum 5 Hocete and published as P. 
aquaticum by ichard, but ‘that is the co repens, readily 
characters by the male flower in the 3rd ¢ I have not seen the typic 
Specimen received by Trinius from ence! as pao Port wing but the descrip- 
tion given by Trinius, as well as that of Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. 113, taken from 
the same specimen, leave no doubt as to its identi tity. 
47. P. Buncei, F. Muell. Herb.—A. gl e d perennial of 1 to 2 
ft. Leaves long and narrow, the ligula prominent, bordered by a oe 
long cilia. Panicle narrow, rather loose, not much branched, 3 to 4 ir 
long, the Dikushes filiform and flexuose. Spikelets several along the 
smaller branches, ether pets nearly 2 lines long. Outer glume 
broad and loose, thin, almost truncate but l- or 3-nerved, + or 4 the 
length of the spikelet; 2nd and 3rd glumes nearl “equal, mem- 
and. Bokhara Flats, Leichhardt.—I have some hesitation in p ing 
this 9 penis —-— has much the aspect of a few specimens of P. repens but there 
Seats io to be no male flower in tho 3rd glume which I have invariably fo ound in 
+ repens, 
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orifice of the sheath, vus quite glabrous, the ligula very short, 
ciliate. Panicle usually only 2 or 3 in. long, loose _and slender but 
narro s 
all pedieellate, about 1 line long, glabrous. Outer glume acute, 
3-nerved, fully 2 as long as the spikelet; 2nd and 3rd quid 
nearly equal, acute, about 5-nerved, the 3 rd with a palea but 
Stamens. Fruiting glume smooth and shining. 
p Queensland. Brisbane ere nouem Bay, F. Mueller, Bailey ; Rockhampton, 
O'Shanesy ; Herbert's Creek, B 
