Diplachne.) CXLIV. GRAMINES. 619 
Spike slender and simple, 2 to 4 in. long, on a long peduncle 
arrow, 3 to 4 lines long, 6- to 12-flowered, the r achis 
hairy round the flowering glumes. Flowering glumes about 1 line long, 
glabrous, 3-nerved, the central nerve produced into a fine poi 
shortly exceeding the hyaline lobes.— Festuca or Leptochloa loliiformis, 
F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 128. 
Queensland. Morcton Bay and Charley's Creek, Leichhardt ; various localities 
about Rockhampton, Bowman, O Shanesy. 
entral Australia. Between Alice Springs and Charlotte Waters, Giles, the 
Specimens rather more robust. 
The species is closely allied to an apparently unpublished East Indian one. 
N. Australia. Sturt’s Creek, F. Mueller. 
Central Australia. Charlotte Waters, Giles. 
3. D. fusca, Beauv. Agrost. 163.—A glabrous erect grass of several 
feet. Leaves narrow, convolute when dry, with long loose sheaths, the 
Cc 
Linn. ; F, Muell. Fragm. viii. 127 ; Leptochloa fusca, Kunth, Enum. i. 
271 ; Triodia ambigua, R. Br. Prod. 183 ; Uralepis fusca and U. 
Drummondii, Steud. Syn. Glum. i. 247. 
N. tralia, Victoria River, F. Mueller. 
Queensland. Keppel Bay, R. Brown ; Bokhara Flats, Leichhardt. 
N. S. Wal c liver, A. Cunningham ; Darling River, Mrs. Forde. 
Central Australia. Lake Eyre, Andrews 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 388. 
F. Mueller appears to be right in identifying this with a widely spread African 
species; which Po also in Bast India and is very little different from the original 
American D. fascicularis. 
