Lappago.] CXLIV. GRAMINEJX. 507 
120.—An annual spreading on the ground or ascending to from 6 in. to 
1 ft. in height, usually glabrous, except a few rigid ci ilia bordering the 
leaves, Leaves flat, with loose sheaths, the ligula small, split into cilia. 
Spikelike panicle or raceme 2 to 4 in. long, cylindrical and narrow, the 
renaning enclosed within them.—F, . Fragm. viii. 107 ; Reichb. 
" t. 80; jen racemosus, Des? Doll. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 
li. oo h.t 18. 
poveri. Sturt’s Creek, F. Mue 
Que eensland. Rockhampton and eas districts, Bowman, O' Shanesy and 
others ; Warwick, uo Depot Camp, -— ell. 
" w England, C. Stuart ; Maneroo, Woolls; from the Darling 
o Cooper's 8 quen Vi isle ian Expedition and € ous other collectors. 
Vic immera, Herb. F. 
a. . Mue 
igna ia. In the interior, io JH Doucil Stewart. 
everal tropical specimens there is a third or even a fourth M on each 
AU olde but I have never seen more than two in the Australian on 
16. NEURACHNE, R. Br. 
Spikelets with 1 terminal hermaphrodite flower, and very rarely a 
second male one below it, sessile along the con ntinuous rhachis of a 
simple ovoid or cylindrical spike. Glumes 4, the 2nd the largest, 
with a small palea in its axil. ide iting g 
hyaline, the palea also very thin, as long as or longer than the glume. 
uro distinet. Grain enclosed in nthe thin palea and glume, free from 
R genus is limited to € 
Spike ovoid or oblong, $ to 1 in. long. Outer glume ó- l 
. or 7-nerved, with lo iis sprea hairs on the back . 1. N. alopecuroides. 
ding 
Spike narrow, 1 ‘to 2 in. long. Outer glume with a trans- 
verse callosity on the back eri long cilia, and 
below it an ovate eid thin space bordered by a 
, thickéne ari ga 2. N. Mitchelliana. 
Spike narrow, 1 to long. Outer glume thin, glabrous : 
or bordered ^ bra few cilia 3. N. Munroi. 
1. N. alopecuroides, R. Br. Prod. 196.—Stems erect, 1 to 1$ 
t. bigh, with the nodes usually hairy, otherwise glabro ves 
Mii r ^s at the base of the spike barren and 
ciliate glumes, but more persistent k aid forming an niii aar de 
