CXLIV. GRAMINE. 589 
62. AMPHIBROMUS, Nees. 
ikelets several-flowered, in a loose parteis the rhachis of the 
spikelet articulate hairy and slender between the. flow wering . glumes. 
Outer empty glumes acute, keeled, with scarious margins, 5-nerved 
near the base. Flowering glumes more rigid, prominently 5-nerved, 
idd ea 
prominently 2-toothed. Styles short, distinct. Grain glabrous, 
Doe: inthe glume and palea, and perhaps adnate. Seed dee eply 
urrowed. 
The genus is limited to the single species endemic in Australia. 
1. A. Neesii, Steud. Syn. Glum. i. 328.—A glabrous erect grass of 
20r3 ft. oreven taller in marshy situations. Leaves very narrow in 
the smaller specimens, piso in the larger ones, with rather broad 
loose sheaths. Panicle 6 to 10 in. long, loose and narrow. Spikelets 
all pedicellate, on eapillary pat usually about å in. long without 
the awns, 5- to 10-flowered. Outer glumes varying from 2 to 4 lines 
t 
in Hook. Lon ijo li. 420; vena nervosa, R. Br. Prod. 178; 
Danthonia toni Hook. f. FI. Toon, ii. 121,t. 103. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Woolls 
Victoria. Wendu Vale, Roler nig Edwards River, Station Creek, F. Mueller ; 
Ballarat, bout Moyston, Sullic : 
Tas Port Da es ple, Patilin? Formosa, Gunn; South Esk River 
and Batipat, C. ir 
a ee St. Vincent’ 8 Gulf, F. Mueller 
tralia. King George's Sound and neighbouring districts, F. Mueller, 
rtr » sels n. 145, 146, 978, 979 and other 
Nees never appears to have published any kei name for this plant. In 
Muda s herbarium he has named it A. junceus. Hooker quotes it as A. nervosus, 
Danthonia sg Hook. E Fl. Tasm. ii. 122, t. 163, appears to me to 
same species, the in a bad state with old flowering glumes more 
or less split at the apex between the nerves, 
63. ANISOPOGON, R. Br. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, large, in a loose but scarcely Lar e. panicle, 
the rhachis of the spikelet articulate above the 2 outer glumes and 
roduced into a slender bristle ri P Mt nde t bearing an 
imperfect spikelet. Glumes 3, the 2 outer herbaceous; floweri 
glume dicio qum on a short stipes (the ie of the spike elet), narrow, 
convolute, hard, with 3 rigid awns between 2 small hyaline e terminal 
