514 CXLIV. GRAMINER. [ Rottboellia. 
immersed, 3rd and 4th thin and almost hyaline, both with perfect paleas, 
the 3rd with a male the 4th with a hermaphrodite flower. ieellate 
spikelets much flatter, rather smaller, with 2 male flowers or only a 
palea in the 3rd glume.—Kunth, Enum. i. 466, R. Br. Prod. 206 ; Roxb. 
Corom. Pl. t. 157. 
N. Australia. Islands of the North Coast, R. Brown. 
Very common in tropical Asia. 
very brittle, clustered in the upper axils on very unequal pue 
peduncles, with a close sheathing bract at the base of each. Sp in 
about 2 lines long ; outer glume of the sessile spikelet closely iioc : 
e 
es.— kt. 
glandulosa, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. ser. 6, ii. 250; Calorhachis 
muricata, Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. Bot. 65, t. 1 
Queensland. Etheridge River, Herb. F. Mueller. 
Also in the Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago. 
4. R 
s Me in into 
long, often + in. broad, the upper ones with long hpr gu ds d 
emum.—Ischemum  rottboellioides, R. Br. Prod. 205; Andr ae 
Syn. Glum. i. 382; F. Muell. Fragm. v! 
(excl. syn. Retz and Brongn.). : us 
R. Brown; Victoria and Fitzmaur' 
, n. 198. 
Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Broad Sound, Bowman. 
Supreipe IIL Mayanex.—Spikelets unisexual, the males ks cue 
paniculate, the females spicate at the base of the eo. 0 M 
ra : / ; 
N. Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria, 
Rivers, F. Mueller ; Port Darwin, Schultz 
Queensland. 
to the genus. e 
This subtribe is to the Andr hat Spinifer and Tasar von 
to the Panico and includes MN. siker nan- Australian geram. the ere 
Coiz a. 
