500 CXLIV. GRAMINES. [ Chameraphis. 
surrounded by a few hairs at the base. Outer glume exceedingly short, 
callous and truncate, 2nd and 3rd nearly equal, many-nerved, narrower 
and more rigid than in C. paradoxa.—Kunth, Rev. Gram. i. 249, t. 36; 
Panicum chameraphis, Trix. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. ser. 6, m. 
217. 
N. Australia, Islands off the North Coast, R. Brown. The three styles ob- 
served by R. Brown must have been in an exceptionally abnormal flower. In the 
spikelets examined by Kunth, as well as in two I have examined from R. Browns 
specimens, there were but two. I have seen the species in no other collection. 
10. STENOTAPHRUM, Trin. 
(Diastemanthe, Steud.) 
d 
A small genus dispersed over the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the New an 
the Old World. The only Australian species is a widely spread one, chiefly m 
stricts and is believed to have been introduced into Australia. 
SR ericanum, Schrank; Kunth, Enum. i. 138.—A oer 
rather coarse grass creeping and rooting at the base, ascending to Y ji 
1ft., the stems somewhat flattened. Leaves obtuse, flat or invo "e 
the sheaths usually broad and flat, ciliate at the orifice. Spikes solita 7 
* LI 2 
and terminal, 2 in; or more, the rhachis flat and flexuose udin 
es broad, readily disarticulating transversely between the ur 
‘kele 
glabrum, Irin. F ance 
sg t. 21, £:8; Diastemanthe platystachys, Steud. Syn. Glum. 
N. Australia. N. W. Coast, Wickham ; Foul Point, A. Cunningham. 
Queensland. Wreck Reef, Denham ; also in Leichhardt’s collection. 
