Oct. 2, 190S.\ Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W. 837 



This variety, fur wliicli tlio variety name yhihrnhi is proposed, was 

 discovered by Mr. W. Forsyth near Rose Bay. Owin^ to the spreafl of 

 Sydney in this direction it cannot now be found in this h)cality and is 

 believed to be exterminated. Fortunately the same observer has found it a 

 few miles north of Port Jackson, at no great distance from the sea, and this 

 discovery leads one to hope that additional coastal localities connecting the 

 Queensland ones may be found. It is an almost glabrous form, with no 

 woolly hairs on the base of the stem as in the desert forms ; the outer glumes 

 are quite glabrous, and the hairs on the flowering glumes are shorter and 

 more oppressed than in the typical tUnii. 8ee a note by Mr. Betche and 

 myself in the Proceedinf/n of the Linnean Sociefi/ of Xeic South Wales 

 f..rlS97. 



Speaking generally, this is an interior or dvj country species. In Queens- 

 land, however, as in the case with so many of our western plants, it 

 approaches the coast. The type was oljtained from the tropics or ilu> 

 Endeavour River, itc. (Cook anfl Banks), or from Gulf of Carpentaria or 

 Arnheim's Land localities. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 



1. Entire plant, natural size. 



2. Upper portion of panicle. 



3. A single spikelet. 



a. Persistent outer glumes. 

 h. Deciduous Howering glumes. 

 <:. Paleas of the two Howering glumes. 

 ■4. One of the two flowering glumes with palea and grain. 



h. Flowering glume. 



c. Palea. 



d. Grain. 



