Isachne.] CXLIV. GRAMINER, 625 
small tropical genus, common both to the New and the Old World. The 
Maire species have both a wide range in “tropical Asia 
Leaves un img Spikelets glabrous or nearly so, FIR 
ine . 1. T. australis. 
Leaves male. sail Spikelets hairy, about } line long. Lm myosotis. 
1. I. australis, X. Br. Prod. 196.— Stems rather slender, decum- 
aes creeping and rooting at the lower nodes, ascending to 1 ft. or 
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numerous filiform branches. Spikelets - ' pedicellate, diri 1 line 
long. Outer glumes quite glabrous. Lower flower usually m male, with 
ck ol bi glume, the set T shortly a gia ith the glume 
pom Trin.; Ku itk diu i. 127; F. Muell. Frag: viii. i 193; 
P. antipo odum, Spreng. Syst. 1. ie 
Queensland. Moreton Bay, F. Mue 
Port vers zi the ‘Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Woolls, Sieber, 
ales. 
Agr ostoth. n. 68; New Englan 
vay se iad 1a, Gillibrand, sagt n, E Goulburn, Hume and Snowy Rivers, 
= Also intr opical Asia from Ceylon and the Peninsula to the Malayan Archipelago 
sotis, Nees in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 98.—Stems slender, 
I. myo 
Beca and branched at the base, short in the Asiain specimens, 
Leaves ovate to femp 
N. S. Wales. iani River, y. Hill; (two small specimens in herb. F. 
Mueller); also in the Malayan Archipelago and South China, 
80. CŒLACHNE, R. Br. 
hachis of the 
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