Chrysopoyon.] CXLIV. GRAMINE. 539 
Paniele in the typical form erect, narrow, dense, 6 to 10 in. long, p^ 
very numerous sepilsry unequal clustered. branches, each bearing ; 3t 
or rarely only 1o between 2 aha 
male ones, the wie sessile or very shortly pedicellate with a tuft of 
hairs under each fertile spikelet. Spikelets all narrow, acute, about 3 
hyaline, often Pipe awn very ne i to i 35 long, with a narrow 
rod. 
hyaline shortly 2.lobed base.— Holcus de irs R. Br. 200 ; 
N. Australia. Coen River, Galt of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Albert River, 
Laviiborongh ; — Island, H 
Queensland e York, oikea y, Daemel. 
Vib ip arrower, icle looser sie Since vices branches and 
the whole Dikich often Motel. enn awns rather longer.—Endeavour River, A. Cun- 
Osan, Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Balonne Rives Mitchell ; Rockhampton, 
ane 
82. SORGHUM, Pers. 
(Holeus, Br. partly.) 
Fertile spikelet 1-flowered, sessile between 2 pedicellate male or 
panicle with 1 to 5 pairs or triplets of spikelets below the terminal 3. 
"sedie or broad, hard and shining, obscurely nerved, ?n lume 
rather hard keeled and acute, 3rd glume shorter, very thin and hyaline, 
th or terminal glume e very thin, hyaline and 2-lobed at the base, with 
an awn between the lobes twisted in the lower half bent above the 
middle as in Andropogon. Palea v ui small or none. Styles distinct. 
Grain enclosed in the hard and shining outer glumes, free from them. 
The genus extends gree ee tropical and warm-temperate regions of the New and 
the Old World. Of the four species recorded as A ustralian one is perh 
from anination, m a into tropical Asia, the fourth is endemic. They are all 
allied to Chrysopo, gon, A. ae more veniri hardened spikelets in dense panicles 
give them a pesuliar aspect readily recognised. 
Nodes glabrous or scarcely y pubescent. Fruiting spikelets 
lanceolate, nearly glabrous. Awn short and fine + 1. 8. halepense. 
Nodes bearded. Fruiting spikelets lanceolate, 24 to 4 lines 
long, villous. Aw n usually long. glabrous .. 2. S. plumosum. 
Nodes bearded. Fruiting spikelets nae 2 ies long, 
eg iaa with a short om apex, villous. Awn not 
Ovary glabro 3. S. fulvum, 
Nodes gl glabro May igs spikelets "lanceolate, “about 4 
lines long, villous. Awn had hne: Ovary ee 
by atuftof hairs . . . eo. 4 S. intrans. 
