Spinifex.} CXLIV. GRAMINER. . 905 
long, the outer ones nearly sessile, the inner ones pedicellate and some- 
times 2 on a pedicel, the pedicel or axis produced into a point shorter 
"Y 3 stamens. Female plant: Heads the size of the males when in 
ower, but the bracts larger and broader, and when in fruit the bracts 
variously enlarged, 1 or 2 often becoming curv ore, 
ed, 1 in. 
road with hard centres and scarious margins, sometimes all scarcely 
changed. Spikelets almost sessile within each bract, the very sho 
smooth and shining. Styles distinct.—Meurachne paradoxa, R. Br. 
m App. Sturt Exped. 26 ; Panicum pseudoneurachne, F. Muell. Fragm. 
vin. 199, 
N.S. Wales. Murray and Darling Rivers, Beckler, Dallachy. 
stralia. Between Stokes Range and Cooper's Creek, Howitt ; near 
Lake Eyre, Andrews ; Alice Springs, Giles. 
The male plant was unknown to R, Brown and unfortunately overlooked by F. 
Mueller, which ts for the generic mispl t of the species. 
TRIB Fertile spikelets with 1 terminal herma- 
phrodite or female flower, with or without a male one below it, the 
pedicel usually articulate immediately under the outer glume. Glumes 
4 or d the largest, enclosing 
nclosing a male flower, the up or flow 
hyaline, sometimes entire and awnles often notehed or 2-lobed and 
nn awn twisted below the bend, sometimes reduced to a 
long awn without any basal dilatation. 
Very minute, rarely quite deficient. Stamens 3 or 
usually small and hyaline or deficient. Styles free or united at the 
base, with feathery stigmas. 
The very thin hyaline and small upper glumes readily distinguish the Andropo- 
gonew from the Panicew, except in the subtribe of Tristeginez where their texture is 
firmer, but the bent and twisted those of Andropogones and never occur in 
Panicez, 
SupTRIBE I. Zoystex.—Spikelets solitary or rarely in clusters of 2 
or 3, inserted all round the inarticulate rhachis of a simple spike or 
raceme. Awns none on the flowering glume, none or straight on the 
Outer ones. 
