Stipa.] CXLIV. GRAMINE,». 571 
typical form slender, tufted, 1 to 2 ft. high. Leaves subulate or filiform, 
rather short, glabrous or slightly pubescent, the upper sheath scarcely 
dilated ; ligula very short, more or less ciliate. Panicle very loose, 6 
in. to above 1 ft. long, with long capillary slightly spreading glabrous 
branches and pedicels. Outer glumes at first almost hyaline, at length, 
especially in western specimens, often PUN or rigid, tapering into 
long points, the longest about 3 in. lon ues glume a ou 
or more. Palea nearly as long as the glum 
. S. Wales. Bogan fas Mitchell ; between the Lachlan and Darling, ' 
era ; Murray isa Dallac 
Victoria. Yarra Riv er, F. Mueller; Ballarat, Bacchus. 
The gn ceca me i from ` Baig E the short € ligula, from S. pubes- 
cens by the more slender habit, the r glumes both with long fine points, and the 
long fine UM. appears to be very abundant in ‘the desert country and very Mani 
It is ponent by F. Mueller and others that it may be the true S. crinita, Gaudi 
ut aritime station of that plant Aims arks' B o and narrow dense ihid 
would ; dint rather to S. flavescens, or S. teretifolia 
The fi ide are among the principal forms in our herbaria besides the typical 
en plan 
Var. ritatis Spikelets ers Sere larger and fewer, but I can see no other 
difference.—5. Jlavescens, Nee n Pl. . ii. 99, not of Labill. ; S. tenuifolia and 
8. poi Steud. Syn. Glum. i ; 
Ww. alia. King George's Sound ^ Swan River, Drummond, lst coll. and 
n. 220, 379, 391, 960, 963, Men n. 1825; tirling Range and Kalgan ler ; 
Fraser s Range, Versa ze A C. Gray; Murchison River, Oldfield ; 
Ningham c — 
Var 8. iiv eaths Lae ps the upper one loose and broad, embrac- 
ing the e oF the panicle ed in S. compressa, but the ligula entirely that of 
S. E oM hue Dr en. n. 3715 and 973. 
ar. elatior. Stem 3 to 4 ft. high. Lower — aser Leaves broader 
d not so closely pb te at the base. Panicle and narrow.—Swan River, 
rummond, lst p and n, 959; Murchison mh Old Feld. 
Var. striata. Panicle more dense. Outer glumes more rigid, prominently nerved 
reba gopi above 4 lines long.—W. Australia, Drummond, n. 133; Murchison 
ver, Oldfield. 
Var. barbata. Orifice of the leaf-sheaths densely bearded with long spreading 
hairs, — W, Australia, Drummond. 
50. SPREPTACHNE, R. Br. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, on short filiform pedicels in a narrow 
terminal panicle, with the structure of Stipa, except that the awn 
dm oo with the end of the flowering glume without any articu- 
tio 
fe ou us are as yet v Orthoraphium 
Roylei, Nees in Ann. Nat. Hist oer. 1, vii. 221, trom East Inn rainy a con" 
Sener, and may prove to be the same as the A Besides that, 
