Andropogon.] CXLIV. GRAMINEE. 535 
Sheathing bracts bearing each 2 spikes but not digitate, one attached 
lower down than the other, each 1 to žin. long without the awns. Sessile 
with rufous hairs. Pedicellate spikelets narrow, acute, 25 to 3 lines 
long, usually containing a male flower, the outer glume many-nerved, 
often produced into a fine point.—4. procerus, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 
124, not of R. Brown. 
Queensland. Islands of Moreton Bay, F. Mueller; Brisbane River, Bailey ; 
Rockhampton, O’ Shanesy ; Nerkool Creek, Bowman. 3 
N. S. Wales. Clarence River, Beckler. , 
Srerrow III. ScuizacuymgruM.—Peduneles axillary or terminal, 
bearing each a single spike above a narrow sheathing bract. 
exserted. Pedicellate spikelets reduced to a single narrow empty glume, 
tapering into a fine awn, or sometimes in the terminal spikelets 
acute only . 
N. Australia. Upper Victoria River, F. Mueller ; Port Darwin, Schultz. 
Queensland. Endeavour River, Banks and Solander, 
30. IMPERATA, Cyr. 
Spikelets with 1 or rarely 2 flowers, usually in pairs one sessile the 
other pedicellate along the slender continuous rhachis of the short 
branches o i i 
hyaline and awnless, 2 outer empty ones usually hairy, the 3rd empty 
or rarely enclosin flower smaller and without hairs; termuna 
flowering glume still smaller. Palea usually truncate and jagged at 
he top. Stamens 2, or 1 only in species not Australian. Styles 
tinct. Grain small, free, enclosed in the outer glumes. 
