618 CXLIV. GRAMINEA. [.Leptochloa, 
crowded in along narrow simple paniele of 8 to 10 in., the common 
rhachis cow flattened and striate. Spikelets 1- flowered, nearly 
sessile. Outer glumes Ż to nearly 1 line long, acute, with a prominent 
glabrous or nlightly ciliate keel. Flowering glume rather shorter, 
inteira, R. Br. Prod. 187; F. Muell. va vii, 113, €. pe 
Nees si Steud. Syn. Glum. i. 213; ©. JVeesii, Thw. Enu eb 
vip 
. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Victoria River, 
F. y ers Etheridge and Gilbert Rivers, m 
bodie d. Burdekin River, Bowm 
Also in Ceylon and in the E. Indian Peninsula, I have been able to retain 
Doin e spacio name, as the American n Diplachne iiil is, aene Iren 
polystachya by Kunth, is generally retained -— the former Our species 
has been usually placed in Cynodon, on accou fthe 1- "isi peri Mos the 
numerous spikes crowded on the long rhachis y hs panicle give the p a very 
different aspect from that of the digitate Cynodon, and there are one or two "e 
species of Leptochloa, in which the flowers are occasionally on constantly 
reduced to a single one. 
76. DIPLACHNE, Beauv. 
Spikelets several- often many-flowered, linear, sessile or very shortly 
pedicellate, but distant along the rhachis of a simple spike or of the 
ha 
A genus of few species, generally s € "es the warmer regions of the po 
Of the four Australian — on Jm n range in the Old World, and 18 at 
probably the same as an Am virer nis one, an See is sed allied to if not identi 
with an Indian one, the. two others appear to be endemi 
Spike slender, erar ; Vater Re M ME 
Spikes numerous in le pani anicle. 
— pected lines long, 8- to 12-flowered. 
of long hairs under vm 
Spikelets way dark-ooloured, " lines long or rather 
erai bichos re than 6 flowers, rhachis glabrous, or 
Spikelets Tight tour, scarcely 3 Tines long, with usu- : 
6 flowers : 4, D. parviflora. 
2, D. Muelleri. 
3. D. fusca. 
1. D. loliiformis, F. Muell. —A slender Spent annual erect 
grass, usually 6 to 8 in. but a few specimens above 1 ft. high. Leaves 
