612 ^ CXLIY. GRAMINER. [ Ohloris. 
3. C. pectinata, Benth.—Stems 1 to 11 ft. high, with the flat 
leaves and loose sheaths of C. barbata. Spikes 7 to 14, 2 to 3 in. long, 
the spikelets very numerous, narrow, elegantly arranged in a single 
dense row. Outer glumes very n rrow, almost subulate. Flowering 
glume very narrow, smooth or scabrous, acartely ciliate, with 2 narrow 
lobes acute or produced into very short points, the intermediate almost 
dorsal awn very om 3 to 4 lines long. Terminal empty glume bifid, 
with a dorsal aw 
podes. Cashmere, sb with purple awns and rather eges awns. 
Central Australia. Charlotte Waters, Giles, with pale-coloured aw 
The species is intermediate as it were between €. pumilio and C. divaricata. 
. C. divaricata, R. Br. Prod. 186.——A glabrous erect tufted grass 
of Y to 2 ft. Loken narrow, flat or convolute, the sheaths often much 
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numerous but not crowded, rarely 2 lines lon ; 
Outer glumes unequal, very narrow, ipie pointed. Flowering g:ume 
— keeled, Senerved, e fine awn 3 to 6 lines long, with a point 
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the flowering glume. 
N. Australia. Sturt's Creek, F. Air (a tall form with long awns). ra 
Queensland. Keppel and Shoalwater Bays and Broad Sound, R. Brown; bow Z 
icin and sro ghee districts, ow man, Thozet, O’Shanesy and others; More 
ton Bay, C. Stu 
cicularis, Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 33.—A glabrous 
erect ate of l to 2 ft. Leaves flat, the lower sheaths broad and flat- 
tened. Spikes 6 to 12 or even more, at first erect but at length hori- 
zontally spreading as in C. divaricata, 3 to 4 in. long, slender and eu 
purplish. Spikelets rather distant. Outer lumes martoi = keele 
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about } in., with sometimes but not always a short point on each 
side at the base. Palea long, narrow, prominently 2-nerved. 
nal empty glume with an awn sometimes as long as that of the flower- 
ing glume but usually shorter.— OC. Moorei, F. Muell. in Linnea, XXY- 
444. 
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N. S. efus In the interior, Mitchell ; Armadillo, Bar ton ; Murray Eee a 
arling Rivers to Lote Western frontier, Victorian and other expeditions ; 
Leichhardt’ s collate 
S. Australia, Head of St. Vincents Gulf and Murray River, F. Mucller ; 
near Lake Eyre, mag JU aie Springs M Charlotte Waters Giles. 
W. Australia. rs Range, Demp 
Nearly allied to but appears distinct from the E. Indian C. Roxburghiana, Edgev. 
6. C. truncata, F. Br. Prod. 186.—A glabrous erect grass 5 
to 3 ft. Leaves usually flat but narrow, with flattened sheaths. Spi 
