994 CXLVI, GRAMINEA, [ Letrarrhena, 
faintly vente, 4th and 5th nearly equal, broad, obtuse, 7-nerved, the 
poros ore prominent on don 4th fhan on the 5th, 6 6th glume enclosing 
$20 narrow, concave, faintly 1-nerved. —Hook. f. £l. TMM ii. 
B Ehrharta PRAA EH p Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 90, t. 117 
ro imis Between etes ea and Curdie's Rivers, "p Mue 
ania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; Hobart ipee ^ Panquil, Gunn ; 
aaron, C. Stuart, 
R. Br. Prod. 210.— Stems either long slender - 
bushes to the height of 8 to 12 ft. (F. ge Leaves s fiom, 
narrow and hyaline. ME d Tiki. Spreng. “i ii. 114; Tetra 
rhena Pec cissima, Nees in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 409; ook. f. FI. 
Tasm. ii. 104, t. 154; Ehrharta tenacissima, Steud. Syn. err i. 75 
F. E. iun. vii. 90. 
Port Phillip n; Dandenong Ranges, F. Mueller ; Mount 
wiles Sullivan ; an ior Grae Gargurevic 
Tasmania. Mois t places near the sea, Black River, Gunn. 
Var. scabra. Prati very scabrous. Outer ‘glumes — mies than n e m 
cal form but ofthe same number, the specimens just co pes Pa ith 
glume is still easter within the 4th. on rharta uniglumis, Y í M ell. 
Phil Soc. Vict, i, 111.— Victoria, F, Muel e plant MERE " 
À Th 
l.c. as E. contexta, is the typical form of oid agir 
3. T. levis, R. Br. Prod. 210.- Stems from a shortly creeping 8 th 
horizontal rhizome 1 to 2 ft. high. Leaves us glabrous and smo 
or slightly scabrous. Spike loose, simple or with a few very M 
branches, 1j to 3 in. long. Spikelets shout 3 lines long, sessile i 
shortly pedicellate, glabrous. Outer persistent glumes rigidly mem 
branous, rather acute, nearly equal, the To slightly the 2nd promi- 
nently 5-nerved, 3rd, 4th and 5th glumes nearly similar, 
and more open, the 4th and 5th Six tiep cn the grain, the 6th 
small, narrow and hyaline, faintly 1-nerved.— Ehrharta levis, d 
Syst. ii. 115; Tefrarrhena Drummo ndi Nees in Hook. Lond. 
Journ. ii. 409. 
1845, 
W. Australia. King George's Sound, very common, R. Brown, Preiss, t 
na me n. 394, Oldfield, P Mudie and tin: Swan River, aep ls 
slender. 
. acuminata, R Prod. 210.—Stems long and 
dts usually rather hoses ihid broader than in Z. distichophylla, ~~ 
glabrous. Spike 1to1}in. long. Spikelets few, distant, sessile, 
