Chloris. | CXLIV. GRAMINER. 613 
6 to 10, slender, 3 to 6 in. long, at length porponta prodi, Spike- 
lets numerous but not crowded, cuneate, 1 to 14 lines long without the 
awns. Lowest outer glume very small, almost setaceous, the 2nd nar- 
row and fine pointed, about as long as the s spi . Flowering igne 
oblong, obtuse, keeled, slightly ciliate, with a fine awn of 3 e ines. 
Terminal empty lume much shorter and broader, raised to the level 
of the flowering glume and flat- toppe; giving the spikelet its Ria 
truncate form. — Kunt h, Rev. Gram. t 178. 
dent d River and Bokhara d Leichhardt. 
. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown and cthers ; 
abundant in i ds West Interior, 4. Cunningham i: puppe others ; New England, C. 
‘tuart ; Hastings and Clarence Rivers, Beckler thers 
s. Australia. St. Vincent’s Gulf, F. M io: 
Specimens ed Darling River in Herb. F. Mueller have denser spikes not ex- 
n 
eeding 2 in. inlength, but do not otherwise differ from the typical ones. The 
Species has beds long in cultivation in Continental Botanic Gardens as ap- 
peared as a gardens at Constantinople, and is n as C. elongata, 
ed in kitchen 
Poir., and C. dolithostacks ga, Lag. . and described by Trinius; Gram. 
the latter name partly from garden, partly from Port Jackson specimens, Pcir 
: fr 
station for €. dolichostachya. — have no spec rom 
T A eae neither of Poiret nor of Lagasca are priar for identification, but, as 
as they go, apply well i ye plant. 
CO diy hne KR. Br. Prod. 186. Be bg sak gie taller 107 
pikes 5 to 
vaN dark-coloured. Flowering giant brad. very obtuse, embracing 
jr RE, : 
e tru 
nate, the awns of both much m than the 
spi ikelet.—C. adt “Lindl, in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 3 
gig ae Bokhara ER Leichhardt ; Bowen Downs, Air 
s. Richm Me I Bro Armadillo, Barton ; Wein interior, 
4. "is orien ; Bogan ee M itehell. 
Var. tenuis. Stems 1 to 13 ft. high. ps short and narrow. vate to 5, 
about 2 in. lon ng. Spike lets smaller longer awns, but with the vd 
flowering gl glume embra racing the barren te tec one A in the typical T tria. Rol 
hampton, O' Shanesy ; Nerkool Creek, Bowman. 
Another long-awned form a rag of 3 to 4 in., from Cabramatta and Ash 
Island, JFoolis ; Bowen Downs, B 
terminal empty glume instea 
in. | to 13 lines long, narrow, 
- ong ter g : r 
thin — hyaliue, ‘the 2nd keeled REN tapering into a fine poin 
