Sorghum. ] CXLIV. GRAMINEE. 541 
3. S. fulvum, Beauv. Agrost. 164.—A tall not very stout grass 
attaining sometimes 6 to 8 ft., the nodes bearded with a dense tuft of 
hairs Leaves narrow, with scabrous edges, Panicle Aag 4 to 8 in. 
long, the hairs of the pedicels a eee spikelets of a rich brown as in the 
darker specie of S. plumosus, but the iens i coor ee only 1} to 2 
lines long, ovate or shortly poenas att Mie! not much flattened and 
usually black and shining when ripe. E: to $ in. long. Ovary 
glabrous ieget fulvus, R. 5 Br. ES "199; stadirepagon tropicus, 
Spreng. Syst. i. 
Queensland. dh Bay, R. Brown ; Rockhampton, O’Shanesy ; Rockingham 
Bay, Dallachy. 
Also in tropical Asia, from Ceylon to the Archipelago, S. China and Japan. 
intrans, F. Muell. Herb.-—General habit and foliage of the 
two preceding, species, but the nodes glabrous and the long awns give 
c 
N. A hem's Land, F. Mueller ; Pori Darwin, Schultz, n. 31, 149, 
185; Ao mo^ Hughan. 
33. ANTHISTIRIA, Linn. 
(Iseilema, Anders.) 
Spikelets l-flowered or empty, 7 rarely 6 in a spike or cluster, 4 male 
or barren, either sessile or pedicellate in a whorl at the base of the 
top of the rhachis with an preian sessile fertile one. Glumes in 
the barren S aeg usually 2, the outer one several-nerved, the inner 
thin and hyaline, in the male * piltelets usually a 3rd smaller hyaline 
one ; in the fertile. spikelet glumes 4, the 2 outer ones nearly prog 
usually rigid and coriaceous, the outer one obscurely 5- or 7-nerved, the 
2nd with 2 2 prominent nerves the central one very faint, 3rd glume 
much smaller, very thin and hyaline ; 4th very narrow and thin at the 
fe E rain free, enclosed in the hardened outer s.— Erect 
e ee feat the spikes or clusters singly pedunculate within 
sheathing bracts, or sessile in the bracts and collected many together in 
compound est forming short almost eyme-like leafy panic He 
The genus is spread over the warmer regions of the Old World, extending into 
South Afric ca, the several species described as American being now referred to Andro- 
