490 CXLIV. GRAMINEX. [ Panicum. 
Australia. Gulf of Pa nta Bes Am own; Victoria and’ Fitzmaurice 
Rive on nf ur Cygnet B ted 
Que Port Cur a aro Sn Brisba ane River, Bailey ; Flinders River, 
sucher lanl; "King 8 Creek, pine Peak Downs, Burkitt; also in Leichhardt s col- 
lec 
"s. Wales. Macleay River, Beckler ; Russell and Johnston Rivers, W. Hill; 
Darling River, NE 
r Central Australia, Cooper’s Creek, Howitt; near Lake Eyre, Andrews; 
Charlotte taces n 
W. Australia, ue REN 4. 48 and 957; Murchison River, Oldfield. 
The species is also common in East India if the P. paludosum, Roxb. be really 
identical, as it hec p be SM Aene a some slight differences in the prm 
examine rrower-leaved —€— Fie pbc differ also kt e 
rather aa iig E with the outer glum o truncate, but P 
probably one species. M ak is also of opinion that the North American P. genicu P 
tum, Muehl. m y ie ifia s e, but certainly not the P. proliferum, eed to whi 
paludosum, kak. has lei indvertoniy referred by some recent botanists 
.g 
stamens in any of the ae examined. Fruiting glume is 
shorter, obtuse, smooth and shining. 
- Arnhem's 
N. Australia. Victoria River, Elsey ; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 343 ; " 
Land, Jf: Kinlay. bo 
Var. tenuior. More slender, panicle not so large and less scabrous, and theg 
less acute. 
Peak 
Queensland. Percy Islands, A. Cunningham; Brisbane River, Bailey ; 
Downs, F. Mueller ; Springsure, Wuth. We 
F. Mueller, eem dn viii. 192, reduces the species to the North Ameri rican pert 
dit: Tin which it resembles in some respects, but differs in infor a 
merican plant is alyans described a s having a AT flow the 
mw I also find in all the American Meinen I have mined 
à DA 
me outer one obtuse, with scarious margins, more than 
of the spikelet, 3- or Sunar the 2nd and ‘3rd nearly equal, c 
about li lines Mei Empty mis rq. rigid, prominently 97. 
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