526 CXLIV. GRAMINEF. [Pollinia 
long and narrow, glabrous as well as the nodes. Spikes several usually 
EN erous, 83 to 5 in. long, in a terminal cluster with a very short 
more or less impr at the end, the nerves faint except a more promis 
nent one near each margin; 2nd glume narrow, the keel produced into 
a fine tikishi awn, 3rd very small and hyaline. Awn or terminal 
glume about 2 in. long, contracted at the base into a flexuose stipes 
without any hyaline dilatation, twisted and ciliate in the lower half. 
o palea.— accharum irritans, R. Br. Prod. 203; Erianthus irritans, 
Kunth, Enum. i. 479; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 118. 
Queensland. Keppel Bay, R. Brown; Endeavour River ow i Bay, 
A, Cu vesci Cape York, Daemel ; Botkin giaa Bay, Dallach 
Var. ? my yriantha. Spikes about 20 in the cluster. Spikelets very numero 2 
raa eor ye th shorter and finer awns, but not erai diferent from the typica 
N. Australia. Arnhem's Land, M‘Kinlay. 
times the sheaths hairy. Spikes 2 or sile and | near sides 5 
a terminal cluster but not quite digitate, 12 z in. long, covere 
with silky hairs of a rie brown. piKelete mostly about 2 a bes 
dc I Midi of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Dampier's 
aiiis A. Cunningham ; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 466. 
Que and. hoalvat R. Rrown; Eea Ae O' Shanesy, and various 
Tooslities ie A South Quee nsland, Leichhardt dim —Ó Creek, 
Pes S. W. Eu Plains, C. Moo y Dado. River to is 
eilson. 
r specimens wi d base of the awn rather ae easi icuous hyaline 
and d bifid, but still very narro 
W. Australia, M beris River, Oldfield. 
This speaies at first sight much resembles the East Indian Erianthus Leine: Nees, 
Som a oe Nees, or Erianthus Cumingii, betas Muell. and other 
synonyms), but the outer ; lumes differently shaped e 
much more developed. a ntm 
