Chrysopogon.] CXLIY. GRAMINEX. 537 
: Spikelets scarcely 1} Fnes long, 1 to 3 “fertile pene the 
edicellate ones on each branch, 2nd glume aw 
itikolete n tog Ame Jong. 3:to 5 fertile besides rn ML 
ranch,  Panicle narrow, usually 
2. C. parviflorus, 
; mpac : 
Panicle : to : in. di 2nd glume of the fertile spikelet 
9. €. aciculatus. 
Panitle re to! 10 in in. l long, ond glume of the fertile spikelet 
ned IT ERE i een IR AAEE ra 
shortly awn 4. C. elongatus. 
M C. Gryllus, Trin. Fund. Agrost. 188, and " Mem. Acad. 
etersb.. ser. 6, ii. BIT. —An erect glabrous grass of He -n 8 
6 ip. long, of numerous capillary simple branches, most] rer, of 
elet 
e 
; outer glumes rigid, acute, 5 
nerves more Poo and muricate or vag 
keel produced in ntoa ‘fine paight awn , 9rd thin d hyaline awn or 
the 5 lines long, the er glume membranous eme into a sho 
ES ee the inner ones nine dh ape en Gryllus, 
504; Sibth. Fl. Grec. t. 67; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 121 ; 
[ow Éryilis R. Br. Prod. 199. 
Victoria River, Sturt's x and 
ia. Cygnet Bay, 4. Cunningham; 
M‘Douall Stuart; Gulf of Car- 
tralia. 
Abel "e River, F. Melte; in the interior, 
T. 
D nsla Keppel Bay, R. Brown ; Port Denison, Fitzalan, Dallachy ; Peak 
owns, Burkitt ; Rockhampton, O’ Shanesy. 
N. S. Wales. tween the Darling and giro s Creek, Neilson. 
Central Australia. Alice Shes 8, “Gile 
Widely spread over the tropicalard warmer temperate regions of the Old World. 
Var. pallidus. Spikelets rather larger with longer stouter r awns.—Holeus 
pallidus, fR. Br. Prod. pt kbps pallida, Reem. et . Syst. ii. ; Andro- 
P» 505,—Islan 
2. C. parviflorus, Ben 
usually but not always bearded. Leaves n 
pu 
