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, 
like, or rarely the lowest with a subulate lamina nearly as long as the’ 
inflorescence. Glumes ovate, 1 to 1} lines long, acute or mucronate, 
the keel usually green. Male flowers few at the top of the spikelet. 
Utricle as long as the glume, much flattened, the edges ciliate, be | 
into a short 2-toothed beak. Style-branches 2. Nut flat.—Fl. 
Austr. Le. | 
Hab.: Queensland, /. v. M. 
Order GRAMINEZ. | 
Tre PANICEA. 
PANICUM, Linn. 
P. ceenicolum, F. ». M, Austr. vii. 467. Stems from a knotty 
branching base ascending to 1 ft. or more. Leaves flat, usually softly 
nerved, both more or less silky-hairy and empty. Fruiting glume 
smooth, acute.—Fl. Austr. l.c. 
Hab.: Queensland, F. vo. M. 
Trizzs ANDROPOGONES. 
ROTTBOELLIA, Linn. f. 
R. rariflora (n. sp.) A. decumbent pubescent grass, prome 
annual, shortly creeping and rooting at the base, the stems slend 
: aves with 
loose sheaths, the lamina from 2 to 14 in. long, narrow-lanceoy 
e 
enclosing a spikelet of usually a single flower. Outer glume Ba 
1 or 13 hine long, nearly white, smooth and hard, faintly g-nerved; alea 
glume hyaline and faintly 1-nerved, the 3rd and 4th glume 0° P ea, 
hyaline. Stamens 8. Grain enclosed in the hyaline glume and pale 
but free from them. The above name is given provisionally. 
Hab.: Batavia River, Hugh Millman. Cape York Poninsula, Geo. Tacobso™ 
Order FILICES, 
: ASPLENIUM, Linn. oa 
A. flaccidum, Forst., Fl. Austr. vii. 749. Rhizome stout Stipes : 
ed with large, subulate-lanceolate membranous scales. ds under 
stout, rather short, compressed or somewhat 3-angular. Era bi- 
; or 
1 ft. to 2 ft., or, in New Zealand, twice that length; pinna’t lows 
ones toothed, the fertile diyided into linear lobes of 2t0.6 
