522 CXLIV. GRAMINER. [ Jschemum, 
I. fragile, R. Br. Prod. 205.—Stems slender, ascending or 
erect, 1} to 2 ft. high. Leaves narrow, those on the stem with long 
twice or three times as long as the spikelet. Pedicellate ne 
smaller, reduced to two membranous glumes, the outer one broad an 
rather obtuse, the inner narrow, tapering to a point. 
Queensland. Endeavour River, Banks and Solander. 
10. I. laxum, R. Br. Prod. 205.—A rather slender grass of 2 i 
ft., the Australian specimens quite glabrous. Leaves narrow, ote 
à : ees 
nervosus, Rottb.; Kunth, Enum. i. 507; Hologamium mervosum, N 
in Edinb. N. Phil. Journ. xviii. 185. , 
" d 0 
N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; us ps 10; 
the gulf, Landsborough ; Victoria River, F. Mueller ; Port Darwin, Schultz, 
Arnhem’s Land, Jf Kinlay. a hood, Bow- 
land. Peak Downs, Burkitt ; Rockhampton and neighbourho 
man, Thozet, O' Shanesy ; also in Leichhardt’s collection. 
The species extends over tropical Asia and Africa, 
26. DIMERIA, R. Br. 
* 1 y 
Spikelets 1-flowered, almost sessile, inserted singly on me yag A 
