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continuously through hot and cold weather, “ for so far the winter has 
in no way affected its appearance or growth. It has, moreover, 
proved a continuous seed-producer.” 
Habitat and range.—Found near moist places from the Port Jackson 
district northward to Queensland and Northern Australia. Confined 
to the coast districts. 
6. Ischemum ciliare, Retz.: var. podostachyum, Benth. 
Botanical name.—Ciliare, Latin, cilia, the hairs of the eye-lids (eye- 
lashes), alluding to the hairy leaves and bearded nodes ; podostachyum, 
pous, podus a foot, and stachys an ear of corn, one of the spikes being 
attached lower down, giving the other a pedunculate appearance. 
Botanical description (B. Fl., vu, 620).— 
Stem, in the specimen seen, slender, under 1 foot high, erect from a shortly decumbent 
or creeping base. 
Leaves short, glabrous. 
Ligula prominent. 
Nodes bearded. 
Spikes scarcely 1 inch long, two at the end of the peduncle, but one of them shorter 
and attached lower down, giving the other a pedunculate appearance. 
Pedicels ciliate. 
Sessile spikelet 3 lines long. 
Outer glume lanceolate, acutely acuminate, the nerves more conspicuous and not 80 
smooth as in the typical J. ciliare and in J. decumbens. 
Second glume as long, but thinner, narrow, and keeled. 
Third nearly as long, very acute, with a male flower. 
Fourth or terminal glume hyaline, deeply two-lobed, with a slender awn not twice as 
long, enclosing the hermaphrodite flower. 
Pedicellate spikelet nearly similar, but containing only a male flower and no awn. 
Value as a fodder.—It is occasionally used in India as a fodder- 
grass. (Duthie.) 
Halitat and range.—As far as is at present known, confined to this 
Colony, and to the Hunter River district. 
8. Ischemum pectinatum, Trin. 
Botanical name.—Pectinatum, Latin, combed or like a comb, from 
the supposed appearance of the spikelets. 
Botanical description (B. Fl., vii, 521).— 
Stems tufted and leafy at the base, about 1 foot high or rather more. 
Lower leaves narrow, flat, under 6 inches long, those on the stem few, reduced to long 
close sheaths, with very short, erect lamine. 
Sptke single, pedunculate above the last sheath, rather slender, straight or slightly 
curved, usually about 2 inches, but sometimes twice that length. 
Sessile spikelets closely appressed and imbricate on one side of the rhachis, much 
flattened ; 2 lines long or rather more. 
Outer glume broad, truncate or retuse, thin but rigid, seven-nerved, the outer nerves 
close to the margin elegantly pectinate-muricate in the lower part, and produced 
upwards into short wings. 
Second glume narrower, acute, keeled. 
Third glume thin and hyaline, with a palea and male flower. 
Terminal glume with a hermaphrodite flower, shorter, rather broad, obtuse, very 
thin and hyaline, with a faint central nerve but no awn; the palea similar but 
without the central nerve. 
Pedicellate spikelet reduced to a single few-nerved acuminate glume, ‘slightly 
spreading. 
