496 CXLIV. GRAMINER. [ Pennisetum. 
plumose. Spikelet jaa within the involuere, narrow, terete, rather 
1 line 
acute, about 3 lines long. uter glume under $ long, orbicular, 
2nd glume from 2 to 1 the length of the spikelet, the 3rd many-nerved, 
em ty. Fr uiting glume eareely more rigid than the 3rd. Styles 
united up to the feathery branches.—F. Muell. Fragm. vii. ll 10; 
Setaria bs Sau Kunth, Enum. i. 150; Gymnothriz compressa, 
Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. Bot. 103, t. 9. 
Queensland an sbane River, Moreton Bay, F. Epa ; Leichhardt and others; 
Rockhampton and neighbourhood district, Thozet and oth 
S. Wal ort Jackson to the Blue Mountains, °R B n, A. om 
Pre aud Een e Buel me C. Stuart ; Richmond fader ‘his. Hodgkinson 
138) 
SA es dg Trin. Spec. Gram. t. 19 (Gymnothriz yir inei Kunth, Enum. 
from China, Ja | an, and perhaps from Burmah, is closely allied to if not Santis 
with P. scite: although The oute a rires are E longer in proportion, 
and the whole spike usually j^ not m s rger. 
arnhemicum, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 109. —Stems erect. Leave 
Hulk rather rigid, glabrous and glaucous, the ligula very short, sp! 
into cilia. Spike rather dense, about 4 in. long. appearing woolly bie 
the plumose bristles. Inv olueres ds. sessile, of 6 to 10 pua ro 
bristles, the longest abou in. long, all very densely Mes : : 
plumose with long soft white qve Spikelet vel shortly p ate 
within the ricca about ines g, quite concealed 1 the : 
Outer glume abou iem nya of on spikelets 2nd and 3rd wea 
nearly equal, tend ‘and about 7-nerved, Fruiting aen 
shorter, Bard. ditioni: aad shining. Styles nidis to the 
nearly so. 
Upper Victoria River, F, Mueller. Allied to the Africa 
N. Australia. 
lanuginosum, Hochst., but the bristles more numerous, rigid and longer, 
spikelets rather longer 
and g 
8. CENCHRUS, Linn. 
Spikelets Miei A terminal hermaphrodite flower and pero 
male one below it, not awned, singly or 2 or 3 together withi 
ovoid or glotülar i invo oluere of numerous bristles, the inner o id the 
broad and flat ned, conneeted at the base and ha ardened roun 
short ale a and Miu tinea 3 stamens in the 3rd. lean 
more E ius the others but not so much ha den hd 
anicu Styles usually | re shortly united at the Sio 
Nui peus in the fruiting “glume and palea, free 
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