1. Arthraxon ciliare, Beauv: va7. australe, Benth. 
Botanical name.—Arthraxon, from the Greek arthron a joint, axis 
an axis or stem; jomted to the stem, the spikelets being sessile in the 
alternate notches of the articulate rhachis ; ciliare, Latin, hairy. 
Botanical description (B. Fl., vu, 524)—A_ broad-leaved, creeping, 
stragoling, much-branched grass. 
Stems rea decumbent or creeping at the base, branching and ascending to about 
1 foot. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1 to 14 inches long, cordate at the base, the sheaths 
usually ciliate with long hairs. 
Spikes usually three or four, shortly pedicellate, forming a little simple panicle of 
about 1 inch, 
Rhachis and abortive pedicels glabrous. 
Spikelets few, rarely above 6 inches, each branch or spike about 2 lines long. 
Outer glume acute, with about seven equally prominent more or less muricate nerves ; 
keel of the second glume ciliate towards the top. 
Terminal or flowering glume obtuse, entire or very shortly two-lobed, the dorsal awn 
proceeding quite from the base, fine, and about twice as long as the spikelet. 
Value as a fodder.—A straggling slender grass which, according to 
Bailey, seems to be well-liked by cattle. Duthie says it is considered 
to be a good fodder-grass in Rajputana, India. 
Habitat and range—Found im swamps; the only two Austrahan 
recorded localities bemg New Hngland (New South Wales) and 
Toowoomba (Queensland). This grass requires the further attention 
of collectors. 
Found also in Asia. In India the normal species is found in the 
plains of the north-west, and up to 7,000 feet on the Himalaya. 
28. POLLINIA. 
Spikelets one-flowered, in pairs in the alternate notches of the 
articulate rhachis of simple spikes, one sessile or shortly pedicellate, 
the other on a longer pedicel, but the two otherwise similar, the 
spikes sessile and clustered, or rarely solitary at the end of the 
common peduncle. 
Glwmes four or three ; outer one the largest, membranous, awnless 
with a truncate toothed or ciliate tip; second usually thinner, keeled, 
acute or produced into a fine straight awn; third thin and hyaline or 
deficient ; terminal or fourth glume a twisted and bent awn, contracted 
and flexuose or hyaline, dilated and two-lobed at the base as in 
Andropogon. 
Palea small and hyaline or none. 
Styles distinct. 
Grain enclosed in the outer glumes and free from them. 
Habit of Andropogon, section Gymnandropogon, the spikes silky- 
villous, rufous, or silvery-white as in A. sericeus and its allies, but the 
pedicetlate spikelets are all, except sometimes at the base of the spike, 
fertile, which is never the case in Andropogon. 
