502 CXLIV. GRAMINE. [ Xerochloa. 
glume usually densely ciliate or bearded. Grain much shorter than 
the enveloping palea.—F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 117. 
W. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Albert River, 
Henne, 
3. X. laniflora, Benth.—More branched and leafy than x e 
thing of the aspect of Anthistiria membranacea or of Apluda m 
Sheathing bracts enclosing tke spikes seve 
: f 
sheathing and subtending bracts, the protruding ends of the p 
the fertile flowers and sometimes the lowest spikelet remaining 8 
b 
N. Australia. Sturt's Creek, F. Mueller. This is probably the plant m pude 
viii. 117, as allied to Newrachne. "The want of the rig ae 
which suggested the generic name would make it at first difficult to "er the wool 
congener, but on examination there appears to be nothing but the habit an 
of the spikelets to distinguish it, 
12. THUAREA, Pers. 
(Microthuarea, Beawy, ; Thouarea, Kunth ; Ornithocephalochloa, Kurz.) 
ps ju 4 
Spikelets moncecious, in a simple one-sided spike, cel ae 
spatha-like bract, the upper (4 to 6) spikelets with 2 mate and a 
or 2 lower ones with one female or hermaphrodite flower ll and 
rudimentary or male one below it. Glumes 4, the outer = small 
m the 
The genus contains only a single species common on sandy sea shores T 
Mascarene to the Pacific Islands. 
; tin 
l. T. sarmentosa, Pers. Syn. i. 110.—Stems creeping and puo 
to a great extent, shortly ascending under the inflorescence. 
flat, lanceolate, broad or narrow, 1 to 2 i 
* ually 
sparingly silky-pubescent on both sides. Spike us d 
erve 
ore rigi i g ikelets the 8 
more rigid, but thin and glabrous. In the male spikelets ‘hae 
outer glume often debet the 2nd hairy, the 3rd and 4th ratae 
Fk 
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