Arundinella.] CXLIV. GRAMINE. 545 
A tropical or ep eases pim chiefly Asiatic, sg a few African and American 
Species. Of the Australian pu one is a common Indian one, the other appa- 
rently endemic, Bot elong the section der haa in which the terminal 
E is entire or slightly ad without bristle-like points on each side of the 
Outer eine may as long as the yd a with a short 
- 1. 4. nepalensis, 
Outer hne. about half ‘the spikelol with a + long 
int . . > 2. A. Schultzii. 
l. A.n nepalensis, Trin. Spec. Gram. t. 268.—An erect glabrous 
perennial, attaining 6 to 8 ft. Leaves narrow, the ligula short, 
minutely ciliate. Panicle narrow, dense or loose, erect or slightly 
spreading, varying from 4 to 6 in. in the smaller specimens to above 
l ft. in luxuriant ones, the low 
glumes usually 5-nerved, tapering to short points, the lowest rather 
shorter than the others, he 3rd rather thinner, with a male flower in 
its axil. Terminal flowering glume smaller a nd thinner at the 
time of age slightly notehed with minute dbimin o r acute points 
oneach side of the awn not produced into bristles. Palea auriculate 
y ES Nds Wide b near the base.—Acratherum miliaceum, Link, Hort. 
ero 
N. Australia, Popper Victoria River, F. 
Queensland. Brisbane River, Moreton B ed conte ig iua um — "carius 
Rockhampt ton and aaa hood, Thozet, O' Shanesy ; ring- 
Sure, Wuth ; Herbert's Cr eek, Bowman; Rockingham Boy, Z ps Pins 
N. S. Wales, ecd Plains, Leichhardt. 
oy distributed over the hilly districts of tropical Asia, extending to South 
2. A. Se chultzii, teta —Stems erect, rather slender but rigid, 3 
ft. high or more. “Lea s narrow, glabrou eni a few long hairs at 
the orifice of the Tamed Panicle narrow, 3 to 4 in. long in our speci- 
ip Spikelets 2 lines long or rather more, on shorter pedicels than 
- ne 
n: sis st sessile. glume broad, 3-nerved, 
Scarcely half as long as the spikelet, with an awnlike point nearly as 
ng; 2nd glume as long a 3rd, 5-nerved, with a short point, 3rd 
RA 7-nerved, thin, with a small bifid palea in its axil; termi 
es glume thin, about 5-nerved, tapering into a short fine awn, at 
ngth bent mcd about the middle as in the rest of the genus. 
N. Australia. Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 31. 
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