Amphipogon. | CXLIV. GRAMINEA. 599 
gnorum, Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 100. — Rather more slender 
than 4. laguroides and quite glabrous. Leaves short. Spikelike pene? 
or head Srnceiobaian, about 4 in. long, pale-coloured, the fine points 
or awns of the glumes very prominent. uter glumes Wier mem- 
ar Psi 2 to 3 lines long, produced into rigid points or awns, 
that of the lowest one longer than the glume itself. Pinata ie 
silky hairy, the three lobes produced into slender awn-like capillary 
points 2 to 3 lines long, and twice or 3 times as long as the entire base. 
—A. laguroides, E. Muell. Fragm. viii. 201, not of R. Br t 
W. Australia. King George's Sound to Vasse and Swan iar Preiss, n. 
1851, Drama, n. 218, 373, 392, 398, Mrs. Molloy, Oldfield and other 
. A. turbinatus, R. Br. Prod. 175.—Stems 1} to 2 ft. high, per- 
fec a glabrous, oft ten more lea afy than in A. laguroides, the upper 
sheaths often dark-coloured and conapicnont EUMD panicle or 
ll. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound and neighbouring districts, R. Brown, 
Drummond, n. 298, 374, 378, Preiss, n. 1849, 1850, Oldfield, Maxwell, F. Mueller, 
Gamelythrum denudatum, Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. ii. 101, — e specimens with 
abortive spikelets only, cannot be identified by the character gi 
66. ECHINOPOGON, Beauv. 
3, 2 
5-nerved, 3-lobed, the lateral lobes Merit the central one ne 
into a fine straight awn. Palea narrow. Styles distinct, the stigmas 
fro; verd plumose. Grain enclosed in the flowering glume but | free 
Z Riad pos is limited to the single Australian species, which extends only into New 
e 
l. E. ovatus, Beauv. Seana 42, t 5.—An erect glabrous 
grass, fron under 1 ft. to above 2 ft. high. ee flat, very scabrous, 
. the asperities reversed on the sheath and back of the blade, erect on 
