Triodia.] CXLIV. GRAMINEJ. 607 
N. Australia. Cambridge Gulf, N. W. coast, A. Cunningham. 
Queensland. Suttor Desert, F. Mueller. apparently the same as Cunningham’s 
plant, but only a single specimen seen. 
branches, mostly 3- or 4-flowered, 4to 5 lines long. Outer glumes 
glabrous, acute, 5-nerved, 3 lines long. Flowering glumes not quite so 
irritans, F. Muell. Veg. Chath. Isl. 59, Fragm. viii. 129. 
N. S. Wales. 
Victoria. North-west Deserts, Lockhart Morton and o 
. Australia. South Coast, R. Brown; Gawler River, Behr; Flinders Range 
and Mount Remarkable, F. Mueller, and probably the ** Porcupine Grasses ” of the 
southern interior deserts of Australia belong generally to this species. 
Murray and Darling Deserts, Victorian and other Expeditions. 
hers. 
5. T. procera, R. Br. Prod. 182.—Stems many feet high. Leaves 
long, pungent-pointed, the sheaths slightly viscid at the orifice in 
i ’s with long loose sheaths, but 
the structure of the spikelets the same in all. Panicle rather loose but 
N. Australia. Arnhem S. Bay, R. Brown ; Upper Victoria River, Hooker and 
Sturt's Creeks, F. Mueller. 
microstachya, R. Br. Prod. 182.—Stems tall. Leaves 
6: T. ya : : 
long, convolute and usually pungent-pointed. Panicle very narrow, 6 
1 ft. long, with very numerous small spikelets on erect slender 
crowded the base, the rhachis usually very scabr Spikelets 
nearly sessile, 3- to 5-flowered, 1$ to 23 ! ng. Out es 
nearly as long as the spikelet, acutely acu e. Flowering glumes 
i ve 
obtuse, the central more acute, the 3 nerves distinct nearly to the 
N. Australia. Islands off Arnhem's Land, R. Brown»; North-west coast, 4. 
Cunningham; Upper Victoria River, F. Mueller. 
