492 CXLIV. GRAMINE. [ Oplismenus. 
Queensland. Shoalwater Day and Broad Sound, R. Brown; Cape Yor 
yg ig cep our River, á. qe a AR ; Goold and "Dunk Islands, Metiittion be 
Rockingha am sed Dallac hd 
Sieber, Agrost. 13; Botany Bay, J Banks and Solander ; Blue 
Mountains, Woolls ; ; Macleay and Dieu Rivers, Beckler 
. O setarius, Rem, and Schult.; Kunth, Enum. i. 139.— Very 
near the slender torms of O. co mpositus, and perhaps rightly included 
in that species by F. Mueller, but the spikes or branches of the papi 
are all reduced to single sopsiló clusters of spikelets, or the lowest 
rarely slightly elongated into2 distinct clusters. Leaves always narrow- 
anceolate.— Panicum setarium, Lam. lliust. i. 170 
C. Stuart 
AR Was HE n: Pe ies ET A s eu iga Bay, €. "Riv er, C ‘Moore, Guilfoyle ; 
Archer's Creek, t eer Lord Howe' grag: Fullagar 
Victoria. Snowy and Broadribb Rivers, F, Mueller ; Yarra River, Luekman. 
Ther o varie ii les s goes distinguished as species ; the one softly villous 
including» mes ‘Moreton Ba ay an d Tw eed Riv specimens, is the Orthopogon 
sagt 
culus, Br. Fro jn , Kun th, gcn 142) ; the other, pede 
early 80. e mahing specimens above quoted, includes Or eitis 
acc and 0. inde dii is, R. . Prod. 194 (Oplismenis gp us, and O. imbecillis, 
unth, Enum ; Panicum s i Trin. Spec. Gra t. 191). 
5. SETARIA, Beauv. 
Spikelets with 1 terminal hermaphrodite flower and somone 
second male on 9 below it, erowded in a sapier dense or rarely 
fruiting glume of a firmer consistence, wi with a perfect flower. Sty 
distinct. Grain enclosed in the hardened need aud palea, bu 
from them. 
The genus is dapis spread over the warmer and temperate regions 
globe. Of the four Australian species three are common weeds over n noel the 
is abundant in eci 
form in A . le genus is by so some again uced to a section of 
winen i chiefly through the TAM SP fs and P. plicatum. 
Fruiting glume transversely pere, Awnlike panicle- 
eeth. 
branches scabrous, with e 
Panicle cy lindrical, simple e, oi in, mo sare spikelets 
Solitary at the base of the bob risu 1, S. glauca: 
Panicle dense or interrupted, 3 to 8 in. ces oe spike- iva 
lets clustered near the base of the awnlike branches 2. S. macrostachya: 
Fruiting gamir wesc penes more or less Mlistered pee 
e-bran i 
Awnlike panicle-bran ea aeons sers shaban teeth i S. verticillata 
1. S. glauca, Beaw. ; h, Enum. i. An. è rect annual 
a a pale green, i to 2 ft. cum [Pvt flat, er eniti ppr 
