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4, Paspalum minutiflorum, Steud. 
Botanical name.—Minutiflorum, from two Latin words signifying 
small-flowered (minutus, flos floris). 
Vernacular names.—Vhe small-flowered Paspalum. 
Botanical description (B.F1., vii, 461).—A rather tall, glabrous grass 
closely resembling at first sight the Panicum parviflorwm, R. Br., but 
with the characters of Paspalwm and nearly allied to P. brevifoliwm. 
Leaves flat, rather long and narrow, the ligula short, not ciliate. 
Spikes or panicle branches rather numerous, filiform, alternate or the upper ones 
clustered, 3 to 5 inches long. 
Spikelets numerous, very shortly but unequally pedicellate, narrow ovate, rather 
acute, about # line long. 
Empty glumes two, nearly equal, prominently three-nerved, glabrous or the margins 
minutely ciliate. 
Fruiting glume acute, smooth, and shining. 
Botanical notes.—Bailey remarks, “it might be called the autumnal 
form of P. brevifoliwm.” 
Value as a fodder—Gives good pasture and plenty of seed. 
(Bailey.) 
Habitat and range.—Ilt occurs ia damp land on our Northern rivers, 
and along the Queensland coast districts. Widely spread over tropical 
Asia. 
2. ERIOCHLOA. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, without protruding awns, with a callous 
annular or almost cuplike base, articulate on a short pedicel, in one 
or two rows along one side of the slender branches of a simple panicle. 
Glumes three, two outer ones empty, usually membranous, equal or 
nearly so, the third or flowering glume shorter, of a firm coriaceous 
texture, obtuse, but tipped with a point or short awn not exceeding 
the other glumes. 
Palea within the flowering glume coriaceous and involute. 
Styles distinct, rather long. 
Grain enclosed in a hardened palea and flowering glume, and free 
from them. 
Spikelets usually above 14 lines long, the rhachis of the spikes and 
main axis of the panicle pubescent or hirsute ... 223 Ee 
Spikelets usually under 14 lines long, the rhachis and main axis 
glabrous See See are 3 a Shs ee 28 2. E. annulata, 
1. E. punctata. 
1. Eriochloa punctata, Hamilt. 
Botanical name.—EHriochloa, from two Greek words signifying 
wool and grass, or rather, the blade of young grass (erton, chloe) ; 
punctata, Latin for dotted, apparently from the annular disc at the 
base of the flowering glume, which gives the inflorescence a dotted 
appearance, accentuated when the annulus is (as it often is), of a dark 
colour. 
Synonym.—Both EH. punctata and E. annulata are included under 
EH. polystachya, Humb. et Kth., in Mueller’s Census. 
