498 CXLIV. GRAMINEA. — [Cenchrus 
vem ni F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 107.—An erect grass x 
several feet. Leaves flat or convolute, often very long, the sheaths an 
nder surface sillous with soft hairs. S pike 4 to 6 in. lon o, Involueres 
flexuose rhachis. Inner bristles or lobes about 8, flat, shortly ciliate, 
not inflexed ; outer ones shorter, rather numerous, subulate, one narrow 
inner one awnlike and at least twice as long a the others, all seabrous 
with asperities turned upwards. pikelets usually 3. Outer pee 
very short and hyaline ; 2nd glume nearly as long as the 3rd. A male 
flower in the 8rd glume of the central spikelet, often a palea only in 
the lateral spikelets. Terminal or fruiting glume enclosing à pa 
maphrodite or apn flower, or sometimes only a male flower in the 
lateral spikelet 
N. Australia. Sturts Creek, F. Mueller; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 59, 
193 
Queensland. Cape York, Daemel. 
9. CHAMÆRAPHIS, R. Br. 
da 
Spikelets with 1 terminal flower usually female by abortion an 
male one below it, few and distant or solitary on the filifo n 
ther 
MU m tenista grasses, glabrous or nearly 80 
flat, the d ligula shor 
there 
Besides the three Australian species, one of which extends over IP The torion 
is one ages closely allied to it in Ceylon and the Indian Peninsula . Fl 
poll. : d bas 
ii. 15 25) is very closely allied to C usd apit ay be 
Sis be same acs inflorescence, but the ee structure of the spikelets ™ 
sufficiently distinct to justify the séluiidày 1 it as a separate genus 
Panicle Tan with distant T on pps eue nescens: 
ene € and obtu LX, 
ius spikelike but loose, the vikede often 2 together 
ower Hi rome p ane g glume acute. Outer aradoza. 
Pun 4 ee Voce. Benin 2. C. pere 
anicle spikelike and bre , the aari e all ‘solitary at the 
base of the lon awnlike branches. Fruiting glum 
PM Ontor pane hr p prominent, 5 callous 3. €. hordeatet 
at 
1. C. spinescens, Poir. Dict, Suppl. ii. 189.— Stems creep" 
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