Leptochloa.] OXLLV. GRAMINE. 617 
L. subdigitata, Zrin. in Steud. Syn. Glum. i. 210.—An erect 
rigid usually glaucous grass, attaining 4 or t. Leaves short, with 
rigid rather loose sheaths.  Spikes or panicle-branches.6 to 10, 
I at se es of the peduncle with usually 1 or 2 lower down, 2 
on 
smaller, especially the low torpe Palea folded. Grain oblong, ee d 
smooth, the pericarp very thin and adnate.—Poa digitata, R. Br. 
182 ; : Jletieine digitata, Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 36; F. Muell. Tnm 
viii. 112; E. polystachya, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 216. 
Ss Australia. Sturt's Creek, F. Mueller; Upper Murchison and Warren 
vers, Walcot. 
Queensland. Suttor River, F. Mueller ; Gracemere, O° Shanesy ; Darling Downs, 
E S. Wales. Glendon and Cassilis, Leichhardt ; Armadillo, Barton ; Lac hlan 
MAE Fraser ; Castlereagh River, Woolls ; Darling River to Cooper’s Creek, 
Central Australia. Lo Donnel Ranges, Giles. 
W. Australia. Upper Murchison and Warren Rivers, Walcot. 
2. L. chinensis, Nees; Steud. Syn. Glum. i. 209.--Stems from a 
ye and rooting base ‘ascending to 20r3 ft, glabrous and usually 
slender. Leaves narrow, flat, tapering to a oint. Panicle 6 in. to 
specimens dde 2 in. ele sessile or ecd so, distant or rather 
crowded, narrow, 1 to 2 lines long, usually 4- to 6- owered. pater a d 
fi 
chinensis, Kæn.; F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 132; Leptochloa rirka, 
Rem. and Schult. ; Kunth, Enum. i. 270; Poa decipiens, R. r. Prod. 
181; Eragrostis decipiens, Steud. Syn. Glum. i. 279. 
Queensland. Keppel B ay, R. Brown ; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, eae nfi 
C. Stua rt Bailey ; Bokhara Flats, Leichhardt ; Roc khampton and neighbo g dis- 
tricts, Bowman, YO Shanes, esy. 
N. S. Wales. New England, C. Stuart. 
Generally spread oe East India and Eastern Asia. he i bly in the 
Patna ife ioi arcely above : line long and distan her specimens about 
2 lines long and ewe approximate, and in the palea p tenen or ciliate on the 
„Toa imbecille, R. Br. Prod. 181, (P. asthenes, Roem. and Ln ult. Syst. ii. 
974; viis rin — Steu is n. Glum. ^ Ad f Broad Sound, R. Brown, 
is differ t from imbecil a, Labill. be merely a weak slender 
variety of Daiba Ameo 5 vidi few Peur qoe 2d the panicle, 
