606 CXLIV. GRAMINER. [ Triodia, 
very much looser, 3 t n. long, with oad dediti more or less 
icke the vied ones l1 in. long with 3 or 4 pedicellate 
spikelets, the ones iine with or 2 ee Spikelet 
about 3 lines long. Flower ering glume s 2i ines lo ng, 3- ner ana the 
Trop. Austr, 340, not of R. Br. 
Queensland. On the Maranoa, Leichhardt ; near Mount Pluto, Mitchell, 
T. pungens, AR. Br. Prod. 182.—A rigid scrubby more or less 
P ER grass, ereeping or decumbent and branching at the base, the 
fo owering stem 1 to 2 ft. high. Leaves narrow, convolute, r i m very 
cute or pungent-pointed, usually i in the specimens seen 8 to 6 in. long. 
udis 3 to 6 in. long, narrow and almost spikelike, the ose er erect 
branches rarely 1 in. long. Spikelets 3 to 4 lines long, pale- cleaners 
with about 6 flowers. Outer glumes glabrous, er under 3 line 
ong. Flowering glumes rather shorter, the enti e base broad, with 
long silky hairs at the base and margins, but few on gs back, hardened 
and almost nerveless i in. fruit, the 3 lobes broad, glabrous, rigid, acute, 
nearly as long as the entire part, and each one more or less distina bs 
nerved in the centre. Paa as long, t nerves u^ -— 
prominent or na rrowly winged.— Festuca Tania, F. LIE 
Chatb. EU 59, Fragm. viii. 129. 
N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Henne ; North-west 
coast, A. Cunningham., 
N. S. W. 
ale All over the N. W. interior, 4. Cunningham, but no specimens 
of his with any precise station 
Central Australia, Gosse, with shorter very acute lobes to the flowering glume. 
This and th di d os owing species certainly appear to be very — " 
although the form of the fl wering glume is about the same in all three. P^ 
abundant as these Triodia Rt they are said to be but rarely found in Mei and the 
specimens we have are too few to Tasio fairly of their specific relatio. 
3. T, Cunninghamii, Benth.—Leaves 2 ft. high or more. Leaves 
fea pet rigid with the sheaths more or less viscid as in 7. 
, but much longer, and in one specimen the lower sheaths are 
ciliate with Se nae! hairs Panicle narrow, dense, from a few inches 
ng. Spike under 3 lines long, very numerous, nearly 
birie on the erect ol mostly about epte Flowering 
Damien ooaroe y exceeding the outer ones, hairy at the base, divided 3 
near the middle into 3 acute lobes as in 7. pungens, but very muc 
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