552 CXLIV. GRAMINEX. 
42. MICROLJENA, R. Br. 
(Diplax, Hook. f.) 
Spikelets 1-flowered, on filiform pedicels in a narrow loose panicle, 
the rhachis of the spikelet articulate above the 2 outer glumes. 
minal. No palea. Lodicules large, very thin. Stamens 4 or 
LA distinct. Grain enclosed in the larger glumes but hie from 
A small genus, confined to Australia and New Zealand, one of the Australian 
species common to New Zealand, the other endemic 
The genus is closely nag to Tetrarrhena, differing in the loose poer and 
awned glumes. The tufts of short cilia at the bas e of the 3rd and 4th glumes are not 
in Eire ind. but are sen very much reduced in Microlena tasman "E 
Stamens 4. Rhachis of bra end ere d — be- 
tween the 3rd, 4th a h glum š 1. M. stipoides. 
Stamens 2. Glumesall vas prim eck other . . . . . 2 M. tasmanica. 
a umi nerves, tapering into a fine awn, with a tuft of hairs at their 
base on the slightly elongated rhachis, the 4th rather longer than the 
3rd and its awn sometimes much longer, 5th glume rather shorter, acute 
but not awned, the nerves not prominent, 6th shorter very narrow an 
thin but stiff Stamens 4.— Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 105; Ehrharta 
stipoides, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i 91, t. 118; F. Muell. Fragm. vii 
; Microlena Gunnii, Hook. f. 1. c. 105, t. 155, A. 
* 2 wan Roc kata ard A err deeds Downs, ns, Broom, Wools and 
others ; Myr River, Beckler ; New England, C ae 
Victoria. soil r, F. Mueller Uc Bacch 2 ld; 
asmania. Launceston, Gunn ; natam t, dudes Huon River, Olde; 
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t. Vincent ‘Gulf, F. Mueller. 
Pei grec Drumm . 895; Blackwood River, Oldfield; Busselton, 
Also in New Zealand. 
mn n tly creep- 
Lf Stems from a tufted or shor "E high. 
m at the ‘base of the stem short, narrow but flat, on the stem bes 
few with short lamine far below the cori Panicle loose, prem 
