532 CXLIV. GRAMINER. [ Andropogon. 
usually numerous, all shortly pedicellate in an oblong ct are 
r4 i i 
of in. without sheathing bracts, the common rhachis glabrous 
ar 
with a dorsal pit as in A, pertusus. Awn small and € 
Pedicellate spikelet more developed than in A. Ischemum, an 
often enclosing a male flower.— A. inundatus, F. Muell. in Linnea, 
xxv. 444. 
N. Australia. Victoria River and Sturt’s Creek, F. Mueller. fi River, 
Queensland. Keppel Bay, R. Brown; Port Denison, Fitzalan ; Brisbane ip w 
Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, Bailey ; Rockhampton and numerous localities in 
Queensland, Thozet, Bowman and others, 
Mud 
w. str u 
referred. The species appears however to be generally spread over ustra de 
mediate in some respects between .4. Ischemum and A. pertusum, it is 
Section II. CyMporogon.—Spikes 2 together on each m nem 
within or above a sheathing braet, forming usually a termina 
panicle. 
8. A, procerus, R. Br. Prod. 202.—Stems stout, erect, 3 ho 
high or even more. Leaves long, the lower ones 4 to 5 in. broa 
ng with a. Ü 
hyaline base. Outer glume of the barren pedicellate spikelets many 
nerved. 
, : è " p. Mueller ; 
N. Australia. Groote Island, R. Brown ; Upper Victoria River, +. 
Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 60, 147, 150, 241, 262. 
: ut the 
This and the two following species are certainly very closely ail, Saa 
differences chiefly in foli appear to be constant. 4. procerus is also d , 
its smaller spikelets, 4. lunatus for the denser wool of the spikes, à yx aeller, 
from 4. bombycinus in their ikes and much longer awns. viser, Des 
Fragm. viii, 124, unites them all, including 4. bombycinus, with the 4. lame, 
of the Mediterranean region, a view in which I am unable to concur 
9. A. exaltatus, R. Br, Prod, 202.— Stems erect, sometimes scarcely 
