Thuarea.] CXLIV. GRAMINE. 503 
eer. glabrous, each enclosing a male flower.-—Kunth ere. Gram. 
t. 35; T. latifolia, T. media and T. involuta, R. Br. Pro ; Orni- 
thocephalockioa arenicola, Kurz in Trim. Journ. Bot. iv. © Garb, 332, 
N. Australia. Arnhem North Bay, 2. Bre own 
aptent Endeavour River, Banks and Solander ; ; Rockingham Bay, 
allae. 
13. SPINIFEX, Linn, 
Spikelets festous, spicate or solitary on partial rhachises sole 
in dense globular h eads with a bract under each rhachis. M ant: 
Spikelets usually several to each bract, spicate or due 2- ite s 
G umes 4, ane d similar, 2 outer empty ones sometimes smaller some- 
times larger than the 2 flowe ering : ones. A ag alea and 3 stamens 
developed palea and sometimes 3 stamens or staminodes. Palea in th 
4th glume perfect. Stamens 3, often imperfect. in s 2, distinct 
Besides the three Australian species, of which one extends to the coasts of New 
Zealand and New Caledonia, there is a fourth very closely allied to one of the 
ustralian ones, widely spread along the sandy sea-shores of tropical Asia. 
Heads of Mind several inches diameter. Male ees 
in spikes to Apes in. Females at the base of rigi 
T. ia 
Plant ERE aT orvillous . ... - . « + L S hirsutus. 
Plant glabrous | 2. S. longifolius. 
Heads of spikelets not above 1 in. 1. diameter. ` Male spikelets 
or clus tered within small bracts. _ Females 
within broad bract 8, p 
csse minute or obsolete . . . « +. 
l. S. hirsutus, Labill Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 81, t. 230, 231. ee 
stout, creeping in the sand, , forming large tufts. Leaves often 
R. long with involute margins, clothed as well as the whole plant with 
ri or woolly hairs. Mile plant: Spikes sessile or eduneulate, few 
or many in a terminal head or umbel and often a cluster of 2 or 3 
Spikes or a single spike lower jm on the stem, each spike 1 to 14 in. 
3. S. paradozus. 
