Victorian Plants. 



Lowest bract nearly or fully half as long as the 

 spikelet ... 2042 



2042. Totally glabrous. 



Tall ; leaves long ; panicle widely spreading ; spikelets 

 scattered, stalked, somewhat pointed, pale ; lowest bract 

 also acute ; second and third bracts five-streaked ; fruit- 

 supporting bract smooth and shining. P. Mitchell! . 



Leaves and their stalks beset with hairlets. 



Often tall ; leaves broad -linear, mostly flat ; nodes of the 

 stem conspicuously invested with spreading hairlets ; 

 panicle amply spreading ; spikelets scattered, stalked, 

 acute, glabrous, pale ; lowest bract fully half as long as 

 the spikelet ; second and third bracts five- or seven- 

 streaked ; fruit-supporting bract smooth and shining. 



F. effusum. 



2043. Spikelets glabrous. 



Rather tall, glabrous ; leaves greyish -green, the membrane 

 at their inner base elongated, almost entire ; panicle 

 widely spreading ; spikelets scattered, rather elongated, 

 ovate-lanceolar, stalked ; lowest bract blunt, more than 

 half as long as the spikelet, three- or five-streaked ; 

 second and third bracts acute, five- or seven-streaked ; 

 fruit-supporting bract smooth and shining. 



P. prolutum. 



Spikelets beset with silk-like vestiture ... 2044 



2044. Second bract with five or seven longitudinal streaks. 



Often somewhat depressed ; leaves flat, beset with short 

 soft hairlets ; lower divisions of the panicle spike-like 

 but thin ; spikelets narrow, rather elongated, in pairs 

 along one side of the panicle -branches or rhaches, one of 

 each pair on a short stalk ; lowest bract quite minute ; 

 third bract seven- to eleven-streaked ; fruit-supporting 

 bract smooth, acute, shining. P. coeiiicolum. 



Second bract with three longitudinal streaks. 



Often rather tall ; leaves flat, generally beset with short 

 hairlets ; lower branches of the panicle spike-like, finally 

 much spreading ; spikelets rather elongated, narrow, 

 acute, often paired along one side of the panicle-branches 

 or rhaches, one of each pair on a stalk ; lowest bract quite 

 minute ; third bract five-streaked ; fruit-supporting bract 

 smooth, shining. P. divaricatissimum. 



