610 CXLIV. GRAMINEJE. [Cynodon. 
Kunth's plate 133 of his Revis. Gram. is generally quoted for this species, and po 
t a] 2 y 
some mistake of the artist, the figure itself represents a totally different plant, 
Pennisetum cenchroides. 
C. convergens, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 113.—A decumbent or 
creeping grass with the habit of C. d ri ny specimens 
shortly erect, sppamuy without stolones, glabrous except a few hairs 
at the orifice of the sheaths. Spikes 3 or rarely only 2, 1 to lj in. 
long, the rhachis flat and rather broad ; spikelets normally in 2 rows 
but alternately curved inwards so as to appear almost uniseriate. Outer 
glumes lj to nearly 2 lines long, narrow, glabrous, the green keel 
prominent and sometimes bearing a narrow whitish wing, the glumes 
airs, Palea very narrow, the 2 nerves closely conti 1 
consolidated into a single one, ciliate with long hairs, the rhachis of 
the spikelet.not produced bebind it. 
N. Australia. Upper Victoria River, F, Mueller. 
N. S. Wales. Cabramatta, Wooils, 
4. C. ciliaris, Benth.—A dwarf species, with the creeping habit 
of C. dactylon, the erect flowering stems 2 to 3 in. high in our specr 
mens. Leaves short, the sheaths ciliate with long fine spreading hairs. 
Spikes 2, 1 to 15 in. long, rather more rigid than in C. convergens. 
Central Australia, Charlotte Waters, Giles. 
73. CHLORIS, Linn. 
_ Spikelets 1-flowered, awned, singly sessile in 2 rows on one side S 
eua: spikes, either solitary or digitate at the end of the peduncle, 
the rhachis of the spikelet articulate immediately above the ers 
glumes. Outer empty glumes 2, keeled, persistent, awnless. F pie x 
ing glume produced into a straight awn, entire or with a too 
palea and bearing 1 or more empty glumes, all awned and usually with 
their ends on a level with that of the flowering glume. 
of 
A rather large genus, widely spread over the warmer regions of the globe. 
the nine Australian species one only has been ciency wanted with a common 
