308 
163; Carpentaria, Brown!; Port Essington, <r tal 510, 546; 
between Providence Hill and McAdam Range, Muelle 
QUEENSLAND : Sweers Island, Henne; nskinigtiazn Bay, 
Dallachy ; Herbert’s Creek, Bowman : Keppel Bay, Brown!; Port 
Curtis, McGillivray; Moreton Island, McGillivray; and without 
precise locality, Leichhardt. 
N.S. Waxes: near Richmond River, Strange; Clarence Evens 
‘Strange; Liverpool Plains and Endeavour River, Cunningham 
Warialda, Hadley. 
IL. Digitaria Hall. Hist. Stirp. ii. 244 (1768). 
*Racemes sessile or subsessile, or if bare at 
the erie: then with traces of arrested 
Spikelets sparingly pubescent or 
ous : 
Rhachis of racemes stout, laterally 
winged or margined; spike elets 4- 
4-8 mm. long, these, or at least the 
upper of each pair, with coarse, rigid, 
tubercle-based hairs on the lateral 
nerves of the lower floret : 
Racemes 2, about 8 cm. long; 
spikelets 4- 5-4-8 mm. long; culms 
weak ; —— up to = 30 cm. 
h 
jewel 
. 
ctenantha,. 
Racemes 3 or more, 16-18 cm. domi: : 
spikelets 4mm. long ; culms robust; 
plants 50 cm. or more high - 2. robusta. 
Rhachis of racemes slender to filiform ; 
spikelets 1-5-3-5 mm. long; hairs 
different : 
Upper glume 5-nerved, equalling the 
spikelet in shape and size : 
Lower glume minute or obsolete : 
Racemes 2-3, approximate, 
slender, flexuose, up to 12 cm. 
long ; spikelets pale — Bnely 
pubescent 3. longiflora. 
acemes sovardl: sprea 
3-7 cm. long; re dark, 
apparently glabrou 4. striata. 
Lower glume larger, hou 6 mm. 
long : 
Spikelets 2mm. long, glabrous 5. parviflora. 
sate 2-5 mm, long, sed a 
pubesce 6. Baileyt. 
