545 CXLIV. GRAMINER, 
Besides the Australian suba the tribe comprises a few American ones, the 
farther study of which may require some modification in the above character. It is 
-— however that neither aptas s, nor its nearest ally Pharus, can be associated 
h any other tribe of Gra 
37. LEPTASPIS, R. Br. 
any rudimentary ovary. No o staminodia in the females. Style entire 
to the orifice of the glume with 3 Sire feathery stigmas. Grain 
enclosed in the utricular enlarged glum 
A small genus Preig over tropical Asia and African, the eni Australian 
species qoo in many respects allied to the American Phar 
1. L. Banksii, R, Br. Prod.911.— Stems from a horizontal or 
shortly creeping rhizome 1} to 2 ft. high, leafy only in the lower part. 
Leaves petiolate above the long narrow sheaths, TO TIS acute, 
. nd i 
hairs. Panicle very “Foose, į to 1ft. long, the filiform Ae nches few, 
distant, spreading, more or less divided. ‘Spikelets distant, pedicellate 
or L or 2 almost sessile on the smaller branchlets, the terminal one 0 
each branehlet usually male, the lower ones female. Outer glumes 
broad and concave Aida Eh in the ciere almost black when dry, the 
largest under 1 lin ong, the outer still smaller. Flowering 
— nearly globulur but open in the "aisle, rather above 1 line dia- 
ter, pubescent in the females, 1 line diameter when in flower, 2 lines 
crc in fruit and quite siege except the minute terminal orifice.— 
Pharus Banksii, Spreng. Syst. 4. 
Queensland. Endeavour River, me and Solander, A. Cunningham ; Cape 
` York, Daemel ; Rockingham Bay, Dallac 
Terse V. oo —Spikelets with 1 terminal eee 
flower and rarely 2 flowers lower down. Glumes 2 to 6, all 
keeled or with a ce ütia n nerve, 2 below the artieulation at the rhachis 
w 
grain, 1 or 2 outer ones aed small and empty or de- 
cient, rarely larger ed "crede eac e flower with a palea, but 
6. erra — 2-nerved palea to the met ue “fertile flower. Stamens 
or 
It has appeared to me that at the gen form a very distinct group, 
ry 
characterised b y the ed immediately « rak iei rung ge flower having almost a 
