Chrysopogon-j CLIII. GRAMINEiE. 1867 



Palea very amall or none. Styles distinct. Grain enclosed in the glumes, but 

 free from them. Pedicellate spikelets awnless, with reduced glumes and usually 

 1 male flower. 



The genus extends over the tropical and temperate regions of the New as well as the Old 

 World. 

 Spikelets 3 to 5 lines long, 1 fertile and 2 pedicellate ones to each branch, 2nd 



glume of the fertile one awaed. Awn of the terminal one long and rigid . 1. G. Gryl us. 

 Spikelets scarcely li line long, 1 to 3 fertile besides the pedicellate ones on 



each branch, 2nd glume awnless • . 2. C. parvi/lorue. 



Spikelets 2J to 3 lines long, 3 to 5 fertile besides the pedicellate ones on each 

 branch. Panicle narrow, usually compact. 



Panicle 3 to 4in. long, 2nd glume of the fertile spikelet acute awnless . 3. C. aciculatus 



Panicle 4. to lOin. long, 2nd glume of the fertile spikelet shortly awned . . 4. C. elongatus.- 



1. C> Gryllus (a cricket), Trin. Fund. Arost. 188, and in Mem. Acad. Fetersb. 

 ser. 6, ii. 317 ; Benth. PI. Austr. vii. 537. An erect glabrous grass of 2 to 4ft. 

 Leaves long and narrow, with a small ligula. Panicle loose and spreading, 3 to 

 6in. long, of numerous capillary simple branches, mostly verfcicillafce, of very 

 unequal length, each bearing a single hermaphrodite spikelet sessile between 2 

 pedicellate male ones with a tuft of hairs at the base of the sessile one and on the 

 pedicels. Sessile spikelet narrow, 8 to 4 lines long; outer glumes rigid, acute, 

 5 or 7-nerved, the lateral nerves more prominent and muricate or hispid, with a 

 few short conical or rigid hairs, 2nd glume narrow, hispid only at the end, the 

 keel produced into a fine straight awn, 3rd thin and hyaline ; awn or terminal 

 glume long rigid and twisted in the lower part, the hyaline base narrow with 

 short lobes sometimes obsolete. Pedicellate spikelets 3 to 5 lines long, the outer 

 glume membranous tapering into a short fine awn, the inner one unawned. — 

 Maiden Ag. Gaz. N.S.W., xi. PI.; Andropogon Oryllus, Linn.; Kunth. i. 60 i ; 

 Sibth. Fl. Grsec. t. 67 ; F. v. M. Fragm. viii. 121 ; Holms Gryllus, E. Br. 

 Prod. 199. 



Hab.: Gulf of Carpentaria, Landsborough, Gulliver; Keppel Bay, B. Broron ; Port Denison, 

 Fittalan, Dallachy ; Peak Downs, Burkitt; Eookhampton, O'Shanesy; common in the south. 



Widely spread over the tropical and. warmer temperate regions of the Old World. 



Var. palUdus. Spikelets rather larger with longer stouter awns. — Holcus pallidus, E. Br. 

 Prod. 199 ; PolUnia pallida, Boem. et Schult. Syst. ii. 829 ; Andropogon pallidus, Kunth, Enum. 

 1. 505. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 



2. C. parviflorus (flowers small), Benth. El. Austr. vii. 587. Scented 

 Golden Beard. Stems 2 ot 5ft. high, the nodes usually but not always bearded. 

 Leaves narrow, scabrous, glabrous or the lower sheaths pubescent or hairy. 

 Panicle 4 to 8in. long, with very numerous capillary branches mostly clustered 

 and divided, the ultimate branches bearing in the typical form each a single 

 hermaphrodite spikelet between 2 pedicellate male ones, the pedicels and base of the 

 sessile spikelet ciliate. Spikelets scarcely 1^ line long. Outer glume acute, not 

 awned, finely many-nerved. Awn capillary, 3 to 6 lines long, without any basal 

 dilatation. — Maid. Gr. N.S.W. 85 ; Holms parviflorus, E. Br. Prod. 199 ; 

 Andropogon inicranthMs, Kunth, Enum. i. 504 ; Anatheriim parvifiorum, Spreng. 

 Syst. i. 290 ; Sorghum parviflorum, Beauv. Agrost. 132 ; Holcus carulescens, 

 Gaudieh. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. 411, t. 27; Andropogon violascens, Nees in Sieb. 

 Agrostoth. n. 65, Steud. Syn. Glum. i. 396; Chrysopogoti violasce7is, Trin. in 

 Mem. Acad. Petersb. ser. 6, ii. 319 ; Andropogon montanus, Roxb. ; Kunth, Enum. 

 i. 506 ; F. v. M. Fragm. viii. 122 ; Chrysopogon montanus, Trin. in Spreng. Neu. 

 Entd. ii. 93, and in Mem. Acad. Petersb. ser. 6, ii. 817. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Keppel Bay, R. Brown ; Port Curtis, 

 M'Oillivray; Brisbane Eiver, Moreton Bay, .F. v. Mueller, Leichhardt ; Eockhampton, 

 O'Shanesy ; Herbert's Creek, Bowman ; Darling Downs, Wuth ; Peak Downs, Law. 



Var. flaveicens. This only differs in the colour of the inflorescence, the usual f oriabeing dark, 

 somewhat purplish, while this is of a lovely pale-yellow colour. 



Hab.: Found on the Darling Downs. 



