614 CXLIV. GRAMINER. F Chloris. 
Flowering glume not broad, membranous, keeled, ciliate at the end with 
long oa and cinta so on the margins, vatiir acute, sometimes 
notched, the awn very fine, to 4 "lines long. pone inal m 
glume Yay obtuse or truncate, slightly emarginate, the awn nearly 
as ni a x of the flowering glume. — QC. decora, Nees in Steud. Syn. 
Glum 
Central Australia, Gosse; Stephenson’s River, M‘Douall Stuart (single 
specimens in Herb. F. Mueller). 
2 empty glumes 
. eue is a widely spread Ei pus one, though usually with 
above the flowering one, the above quoted C. ty mis however, from East 
— F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 85.—Stems erect, slender but 
d, o 2 ft. high. Lyse narrow with subulate points or almost 
entirely flat in the um r specimens, glabrous, Spikes 4 to 6, dense 
1 to 13 in. long. Spikelets sessile, 3 to 4 lines long. Lowes t jume 
raised on a hairy rhachis of about 1 line, rather above 1 line long, pie 
broad and concave, Barra 3-nerved, ciliate with long hairs at ni 
end, with a fine awn of 2 to 3lines. Terminal empty glumes ate 
(4 t 7), the leset, iu broader than the flowering one, 5- to 7-n : 
at the base, hyaline and not ciliate, very spreading and at leng : 
rigidly scarious, iin upper ones gradually smaller sessile and not €x 
ceeding the outer ones. 
N. Australia. Sturt's Creek, F. Muelle; Dont 
a AME Rockhampton, O Shanesy ; ; Gracemere, Bowman ; Bowen , 
There are one or two East Indian species with mde scarious empty glumes, a 
they do not exactly correspond with the Australian 
74, ELEUSINE, Gertn. 
(Dactyloctenium, Willd: Acrachne, Nees.) 
Spikelets several-flowered, flat, imbricate in 2 rows along one side : 
the digitate or scattered branches of a simple panicle, the rhachis 0 
t. 
a loose membranous pericarp, which either persists round 
