544 OXLIV, GRAMINES. [ Anthistiria. 
Central Australia, Giles; near Lake Eyre, Andrews. 
Var. triehopus. A tuft of long hairs under the fertile spikelet.— Hooker's Creek, 
F. Mueller. 
34. APLUDA, Linn. 
very thin or none. Styles distinct. Grain enclosed in the outer glumes, 
free from them. 
A small genus spread over tropical Africa and Asia, the subjoined species a common 
one, perhaps not indigenous in Australia. 
1. A. mutica, Linn.; Kunth, Enum. i. 516.—Stem creeping oF 
climbing, several feet long, with erect branching flowering shoots. 
Leaves long, usually glabrous. Panicles loose and leafy, 1 to 2 ft. long. 
Bracts subtending the spikelets 3 to 4 lines long, very concave, striate, 
with short sometimes awn-like points, in clusters of r 6. Sessile 
spikelet shorter than the braet; pedicellate spikelets either reduced to 
a rudimentary glume or more developed and protruding bey ond the 
bract. Awns of the terminal glume very minute or entirely deficient. 
i] 
SUBTRIBE V. Trisrecivex.—Spikelets paniculate, all similar, the 
terminal glume often small and thin at the time of flowering, but more 
or less enlarged and stiffened or hardened round the fruit, and usually 
with an awn twisted and bent as in other Andropogone:e, but sometimes 
very small or deficient. 
‘The few genera collected under the above name have been proposed as a ia or 
tribe intermediate as it were between Panices and Andropogonese, but they appear 
35. ARUNDINELLA, Raddi. 
Spikelets with l terminal hermaphrodite flower and often a second 
male one below it, in a loose terminal panicle. Glumes 4, the 3 outer 
ones often pointed but not awned, the 3rd with a palea or à P . 
