516 CXLIV. GRAMINEEX. [ Chionachne. 
Ceyl. Pl. 387, substituted Ue Es ge I name Kénigii, published as Cois 
Kiwi, Spreng. Syst. i. addition however to the synonymy seems 
scarcely to be justified by ta s eni daía 
The Australian specimens are imperfect but quite sufficient to establish the identity 
with the Indian ones, which have helped to make out the above character. They 
were included by F. Mueller in his Selobachne medians 
C. cyathopoda, F. Muell.—An erect grass of several feet, less 
i5 than C. barbata. Leaves long and flat, scabrous on the upper 
embracing the rhachis as in C. barbata, the female part of the spike 
usually included in the leaf-sheath even when ripe. Male spikelets 
acuminate.—Sclerachne dbatlopodta, F. Muell. Hk pi viii. 116, 
. Australia. Upper Victoria River, Hooker and Sturt's Creeks, F. Mueller; 
Gut. of f Carpentaria, Landsborough 
ne River, Bailey; Dawson and — Rivers, Leichhardt ; 
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