504 CXLIV. GRAMINEX. [ Spinifez. 
long, the rhachis produced into a point usually € the penc 
and sometimes very long.  Braets under the spikes or pedune 
lanceolate, acuminate, concave. Spikelets sessile in the spike or 
scarcely pedicellate, 5 to 6 lines long. Glumes membranous, hairy, 
the empty ones 5- or 7-nerved, usually as long as or longer than the 
bract, the spikelet 6 to 7 lines ae acute or acuminate. lumes all 
nearly similar, with 7 or more nerves, the 2 o ones rather 
the largest with more nerves than the others. A palea and some- 
times 3 stamens in the axil of the 3rd, and an ovary he 3 stam mig 
or xem in the terminal one.— Sieb. Agrostoth. n. 62; Hook. 
. 106; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 138; $. sericeus, R. Br. 
Prod. 198. 
Abundant on d sandy sea shores of item apto from Rockingham Bay dece 
ward (Broad Soun dex MM on), E den les, Victoria, Tasmania, cu nil 
tralia to the sath coast of W. A wash (King George's Sound, £. Bror 
others). Also aN and Now Caledoni 
S. alterniflorus, Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 96, from the character given, would ert 
to S. Paire " i Sairi mens I have seen from Swan River, Preiss, ga 
belong rath ongifolius. Both species are in n Wet Australia, but, a8 ny 
have seen, a itil Ls e Mh down the west coast to Swan River, 
hirsutus only on the south c 
. S. longifolius, R. Br. Prod. 198.—Closely resem ables C. t 
tus aye quite glabrous except the long cilia of the ligula and ape d tan 
a iw on the margins of the leaf-sheaths. Leaves narrow, T s of 
riety only. x 
kien Noir than in S. hirsutus. "Spikelets seareely 5 Pence 
n 
plea or — É the 3rd xe in the SUR examined. e x 
ds of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Careening DT 
Ban die whole coas rs us Poem dme ot Crp Island, Flood ; Nichol Bay, y Wal 
Port oot pire Schultz, n. 199, 20 Swan River, 
A y, Milne ; Murchison River, Oldfield ; 
Peder Preiss, n. 1833, Oldjueta, and possibly King George’s s Sound. 
us, 
_8. S. paradoxus, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1243, 1244 — 
divarieately branched, rigid and brittle but not so stout as the pre s with 
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