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usque fere 2 mm latae, sed plerumque plus minusve involutae et setaceo-acuminatae ; panicula gracilis, 

 diffusa, laxa, usque 15 cm longa, sub flore valde expansa et lata, post anthesin contracta; rhachis et 

 paniculae rami capillares, plus minusve flexuosi, ab invicem distantes, elongati (rami infimi usque 10 cm 

 longi et laxe pauciramosi), alterni vel hie inde pseudo-oppositi; spiculae parvae, fuscae, oblongo-ellipticae, 

 obtusiusculae, circa 2 mm longae, glabrae, laterales breviter, terminales longiuscule pedicellatae; gluma I. 

 acuta quam spiculae dimidium paulo vel interdum conspicue longior, 5-nervis sed nervis 2 lateralibus 



Fig. 73. Panieum melananthum F. v. Muell. nach Exemplaren vom Fusse der Beech Mts. 



(Stark verkl.) 



plus promin entibus, opaca, margine angusto albo-scariosa ; glumae IL et III. subaequales, late ovatae, 

 subacutae; gluma III. plus minusve intense colorata (interdum subnigrescens), 5 — 7 nervis, nervis promi- 

 nulis; gluma IV. pallida, nitida, nervis obsoletis; palea quam gluma paulo brevior. 



Queensland: bewaldete Sandhügel der Dividing Range bei Jericho (Domin, III. 1910). 

 Species P. bicolori affinis, sed jam habitu, ligula integra (nee ut in P. bicolori in cilias dissoluta), 

 spiculis obtusiusculis etc. facile distinguenda. 



