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P. sangfuiuale, Idnn. Summer Grass of Queensland. Decum- 

 bent and often shortly creeping and rooting at the base, ascending to 

 2 or 3 feet. Leaves flaccid, flat, usually pubescent and sprinkled with 

 long hairs especially on the sheaths, but sometimes nearly glabrous. 

 Spikes or panicle-branche^ 3 to 8, crowded at the end of a long 

 peduncle, all from nearly the same point or shortly distant, 2 to 5 inches 

 long, the rhachis slender but angular, flexuose, scabrous-ciliate. 

 Spikelets in pairs, one nearly sessile the other pedicellate, oblong, 

 rather acute, above 1|^ lines long. Outer glume minute, rarely above 

 i line long, second glume lanceolate, 3-nerved, from a-half to three- 

 fourths the length of the spikelet, third glume usually 5-nerved, glab- 

 rous or slightly ciliate, in the Australian form empty. Fruiting 

 glume shorter, smooth. 



By Authority s James C. Beal, Government Printer, Biisbane. 



