604 CXLIV. GRAMINES. [ Triraphis. 
awn 3 to4 lines long, with a pointed ey or short awn on each side, 
the lateral awns rather aber er.——F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 108. 
N. alia. Arnhem’s Land, F. 2 ; yen cbe Walcot. 
. Que and. Thirsty Sound, /3 Brown ; fina dcs M'Gillivray ; ;Rock- 
ath pre "t Do hhur districts, O' Shanda SY et 
N. S. Wales River, Mitchell ; Darling ive to Cooper’s Creek, 
Victorian and other opali one. 
Victoria. Wi ra, Wilson. 
Central Australia. Alice ce Springs and M‘Donnell Rs Giles. 
W. Australia, Drummond, a single panicle in Herb. F, Muell. 
Var, humilis, 6 to 8 in. high, with flattened leaves and a panicle of 2 to 3in.— 
Lake Eyre, Andrews ; north of Fowler's Bay, Giles 
. pungens, R. Br. Prod. 185.—A glabrous slender grass of 
about 2 ft, TAU at the base. Leaves chiefly in the lower part, 
narrow, 3 to 4 in. long. Spikelets 4 to 5 lines long without the awns. 
Outer empty glumes glabrous, narrow, coriaceous, 3 lines long or rather 
more, entire. Flowering glumes shorter below the division, coriaceous, 
shortly silky-pubescent, ed 3 awns nearly equal, all entire and slightly 
o ted and rigid at the bas 
ustralia. Islands of RS Gulf of ete R. Brown; Victoria River and 
Sen zen F. Mueller ; Port Darwin, Schultz 
T. diantha, F. Muell, Fragm. viii. 125, from Escape Cliffs, Hulse, is founded on à 
single st tarved at which a DEY to me to bea state of T. pungens with the 
spikelets reduced to 1 or 2 flowers 
3. T. bromoides, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 108.—A taller p 
stouter grass than T. pungens, quite glabrous. Leaves terete, eree 
rigid, pungent-pointed, with rather broad sheaths. Panicle very c 
but narrow, above 1 ft. long, with erect capillary branches and penu x 
Glumes narrow, coriaceous, the outer empty ones nearly } in. long, t : 
lowest entire, acute or shortly pointed, the 2nd with a finer pos 
and a small lobe on each side. Wlowering glumes shorter below the 
division, the midrib fringed with a do row of short fine spreading 
hairs, the awns 3 to 6 lines long, rigid and dilated at me base, -capillary 
at p 
denies: Dr "mmond, n. 128; Murchison River and Geograph Bay; 
OL tid. 
moides, in others smaller. Outer glumes varying from di? M 
Flowering imr always with the double row of hairs on the midri 
in T. brom 
WV. Australia, Drummond, n. 74, 207, 345. 
