542 CXLIV. GRAMINEJ. [ Anthistiria. 
os (€, (Qomlepmgon) braeteatus, Willd. Of the fn pups. icit oneis à com- 
and African one, the other three appear to be endemi 
The ad whorled barren spikelets sessile, Awn very long 
rigid. 
Spikelets in dense compound clusters, sessile within the 
Bracts glabrous. Barren spikelets glabrous 
sprinkled with long cilia. Fertile spikelet vri 
brous or shortly pubescent at the end . A. ciliata. 
ae sprinkled "idi long spreading hairs. Bpike- 
arly of 4. ciliata 2. A. frondosa. 
Spikelets vi the surrounding barren ones on. sle nder 
pedicels within the sh iur bracts. Barren spike- 
lets glabrous Fertile one densely villous with 
i 3. A. avenacea. 
` brown hairs 
The 4 alid krae spikelets peilicellate, all the spiko- 
lets glabro y fine . 4, A. membranacea. 
p eoe F. Muell. Fra x. 75, from Port Curtis, C. ea is unknown to 
s the fasion G rage from a fragmentary specimen ee o3, 1 lie ea” 
or 
ro me 3s be ies near A. avenacea, differing in the involucral spihidista being 
inste 
A. ciliata, Linn. ; Kunth, Enum. i. 481.—Stems 1 to 3 ft. high. 
eaves narrow, glabrous s or the sheaths hairy; ligula very short, some- 
times ciliate. Spikes or clusters of spikelets no not numerous, ue " 
e lealy 
points kacer than the feoi the short Phils pigat with long 
brown hairs. Spikelets narrow, 4 to 5 lines long, 
sessile at the base of the bearded rhachis, 2 or 1 pedicelat at the top, 
glabrous or sprinkled with a few long hairs: outer glume the largest, 
n 
tralis, R. Br. Prod. 200; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 107, t. 156; F. Muell 
gm. v. 207 ; A. cespitosa, Anders M nog ART E and, from 
the character given, A. cuspidata, Anders. l.c. 
PME porum Australia and Tasmania, known everywhe fom " 
om various jes alities by numerous collectors (Sieber, Aper 
tri n. nly Drom n. 984, Preiss, n. 1843, Schultz, n. 158, 179; Port Jac 
In, R. Brown, ete.). Spread read also over tropical A sia and Africa. 
2. A. frondosa, R. toe Prod. 200.—Very near A. seers but kin 
. & larger scale. Stems erect and branching, from r 3 ft. to wice 
that height, aoe flattened under the lower M dct. bh g 
brous or the upper sheaths ciliate. Leafy panicle dense, often ing 
leafy bracts narrow, ciliate on the back with long spreadin Ei dt 
the outer ones 2 to 3 in. long. Spikes or clusters as in A. ciliata, W16 
