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536 i CXLIV. GRAMINEX. ` Hmperata. 
esides the Australian species which is widely spread over the temperate and 
tropical — reped of the Old World, the genus contains at least one other, 
hiefly Ameri 
. I. arundinacea, Cyr.; Kunth, Enum. i. 477,—A stiff erect 
perennial 1 to 3 ft. high, glabrous. except sometimes a tuft of hairs at 
the nodes, which however is not so common in Australian as in Indian 
speci mens. Leaves erect, narrow, ee PRES than ve stem peat ena 
stigmas and o M a anthers alan protruding. bred n to 
near 2 lines long ; outer glume 5- or 7-nerved, the 2nd 3- or 5-nerved, 
the 3rd usually empty. EY Br. Prod. 204; Host, Gram. Austr. iv. f. 
40 ; yh Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 55. 
N. alia, COGNOME d S. Wales, pied a and S. > 
apparently indu common in all these colonies, being s aba large La 
stations by numerous ud Gulf of Carpentaria, riri sland Coast, Por 
parien: = Port Lincoln, R. Brown 
a, R. Brown (Prod. ye but no Tasmanian specimen in his herbarium. 
a. Murchison River, where it rarely flowers, Oldfield. 
In the e majority of xcu a asis generally said of the species in Europe and Pus 
the 3rd glume is empty, but in some from Macle eay River, Zeckler, I Man seen 
3rd and 4th glumes nearly similar, each with a hermaphrodite flower in its axi 
31, CHRYSOPOGON, Trin. 
(Holcus, R. Br. partly.) 
arren d at the end of the filiform aera iux or divided 
m " 
the flower slender, flexuose and stipes-like at the basi; or dilated n: 
and 2 lobed, with a short or long awn terminal or from between the 
lobes, twisted i in - a half and bent back above had middle as " 
Andropogon. Pale mall or none. Styles dis Grain en 
closed in the sind bui free from them. Pedicellate spikelets awnless, 
with reduced glumes and usually 1 male flower. 
he gem s extends over the tropical and temperate regions of the New a8 n 
the Old World, Ofthe Tour Australian species one only appears to be € ndemie, 
ending into ical Asia an 
others ext one over nearly the whole area of the li 
"They: differ Andropog fly in m but aum a pg ens and 
nited with Sorghum in one nus, as b 
acquiesced Beauvois. 
cogere ri to ólines long, 1 fertile and 2 pedicellate ones to « 
m 2nd glume of oe ihe fertile one awned. Awn : I 
of ceci one long and rigid Se ao s Fe l. C. Gry! d 
