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Andropogon.) CXLIV- GRAMINER. 529 
otfóhb Ql Qeon aia pga) 5 wyeGe di Srey 
One spike affixed lower down than the other, slightly hairy. : 
Las 1 to 3 in. long, hairy in the lower part. . . 14. A. lachnatherus, 
Section ITI. Schizachyrium.—Peduncles axillary or terminal, bearing cach a 
single spike above a narrow sheathing bract. 
is a di ili mall oblique bract at oF 
vt he ee ie ee ee E 
Section I. Gymnanpropocon.—Spikes 2, 3 or more, joar 
the end of an elongated peduncle without sheathing bracts, very rarety 
reduced to a single spike. 
: : : ilkv-hairy spikes approach 
Among the following species those with densely silky-hairy sp! ^ 
Pollinia in habit, but the pedicellate spikelet is always barren and awnless, and mos 
frequently without even a male flower. 
l. A Lb gu g 
grass of 2 or 3 ft., glabrous except the inflorescence, the sugli 
bearded. Leaves rather narrow. Spikes usually 3 or 4, nearly wit 
at the end of a peduncle without sheathing bracts, erect or scarcely 
: ‘ tipes 
length of the spikelet, contracted at the base into a flexuose stipes, 
with secat d very slight hyaline dilatation.  Pedicellate spikelet 
reduced to 1 or 2 empty glumes. ; 
Queensland. Peak Downs, F. Mueller ; Darling Downs, Leichhardt ; Spring- 
Sure, Wuth. 
N. S. Wales. Maneroo, Woolls. 
2. A. sericeus, 2. Br. Prod. 201.—Stems erect, branching rt 
base, usually rather slender and 1 to 2 ft. high, with — : "e 
chiefly at the base, but sometimes twice that height with larger le ee 
€ nodes bearded. Spikes in the typical form 2 or 3 or rarely t 
. H > an 
n and hyaline ; awn or terminal glume 4 to 1; in. long, without any 
