620 CXLIV. GRAMINEA, [ Diplachne. 
D. parviflora, Benth—A glabrous erect grass of 2 or 3 ft. 
Leaves convolute, with long rather loose sheaths, the ligula jagged. 
Panicle narrow, eae varying from 3 to 10 in., with long e erect simple 
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branches. Spikelets s very numerous, sessile or nearly so, 3 nes 
ong, very niia 5- to 7- uter glumes about 1} lines 
long. Flowering glumes rather shorter, glabrous on the back, the 
margins ree em lateral nerves scarcely distinct, the keel produced 
into a short point, the lateral hyaline lobes adnate to it almost to the 
top. surge abi hehe R. Br. Prod. 182 ; Festuca Brownii, F. Muell. 
Fragm. viii. 129 
N. Australia. Arnhem S. Bay, R. roig is MODE West Coast, E With 
the latter uim are some short barren stems with short spreading rigid leaves, 
ut they may not ped to the same bunten, as ge sheaths are slightly viscid and 
there is no jagged li 
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nearly similar, unawned or with one untwisted awn. Palea often as 
large as the glume. Grain free. 
appear to me che ys ted and not un wired gro Ms d have been 
generally dae d in pori Soa. and Festucaceze, bui th ey have igre 
he esee pedicel < the first, nor the twisted awn and reer us alea of the 
77. SPOROBOLUS, R. Br. 
(Vilfa, Beauv.) 
Spikelets small, 1-flowered, nearly sessile or pedicellate in a narrow 
spikelike or loose and pyramidal panicle, the rhachis of the spie 
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Styles 
from the glume, the pericarp loosely enclosing the seed or very 
and evanescen 
The genus is widely spread over the tropical and € more temperate region de 
both the New and the Old World. Of the six Australian vx Mur have a gore 
range over the area of the genus, a third extends over Saat, In a, the three ot 
appear to be endemic, but come very near to some Asiatic nse d ji 
.. Beauvois, and after him Dice: have replaced Brown's name Sporobolus by P 
y Adamson, on priority, but Adamson’s character is far too veers 
Dieupniscd us generic, and of th e two species of Caspar Bauhin's which he 
