524 CXLIV. GRAMINES. LArthrazon. 
without anv spikelet, the i ha sessile or shortly pedunculate in a 
simple terminal panicle. Glumes 4, the outer one the largest, mem- 
branous, several-nerved, the ond inde acute, the 3rd smaller, hyaline, 
all awnless, — or terminal glume shorter than the 2nd, hyaline but 
keeled, with a dorsal awn arising from the base but nial and bent as 
in Andropogon. Pilea very small and hyaline. Styles distinct. Grain 
enclosed in the outer plumes da Der from them.—Stems usually weak 
or slender with short broad le 
The s is generally spread over satar Asia ees gie the only Australian 
species denied s a slight variety of a common Indi 
ciliare, Beauv. Agrostogr. 111, f. 11, f. 6, var. au ustrale.— 
Stems slender: decumbent or creeping at the sale branching and ascend- 
ing to about 1 ft. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1 to l; im. long, 
cordate at the base, the sheaths usually ciliate with long ha Spi 
usually es or 4, shortly pedicellate, forming a little nents pe of 
about 1 in., the rhachis and abortive pedicels glabrous. 5 ets few, 
rarel abs 6 in. each branch o spike about 2 lines long. Oute 
glume acute, with A Te ually | fein eek: more or less muricate 
erves; keel of the glume ciliate towards the ; term nal or 
praan quite from the eds fine and about twice as long as th 
. New 
xviii. 181 ; ; Andropogon Fiat Heyne i in Steud. "Syn. Glum. i. 382. 
N. S. Wales. New England, C. Stuart. 
— ees evidently belonging to a common — — oui Miser n y 
prec agree with the Indian forms. They a named Hinr 
Ba ^m sei subset, but never er published x: Prage unc "n MD thoug 
. 98: 
g Mu e . Fragm. -liare, 
119, there are several which belong to a very different plant, the Ischamum A s 2 
Retz, which, as above mentioned, Kunth had confounded with the Aréir 
. Var. ? tenellus. A single specimen ana Tawomba, in Queensland, Bailey, mr 
sisting of numerous adventitious sm m the base of an old one, with small pd 
leaves and the panic iun Beno » single as of 1 to 5 spikelets, the nerves 9 
outer glumes much muricate, the awn very short or obsolete. Perhaps an abno 
‘state Lan a Vihdty, but the ha habit very peculiar. 
28. Ba eatin Trin. not of Spreng. 
icu- 
the 
spikes 
sessile and clustered or fend clita ary at = end of the er 
pedunele. fain 4 or 3, outer one the largest, membranous, gee 
with a a truncate toothed or ciliate tip, 2nd usually thinner, keeled, ac 
