624 CXLIV. GRAMINE. [ Sporobolus. 
crowded, nearly 1 line long. Outer glume very small, hyaline, almost 
d 
time of flowering. Seed enclosed in a loose pericarp.— Vilfa or Agrostis 
actinoclada, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. ig 
. Australia. Sturt’s Creek, F. Mue 
Queensland. Gracemere, O’ Shanesy ; "Ballandool River, Looker. 
entral Australia. Charlotte Waters, Giles. 
78. MICRAIRA, F. Muell. 
lum 
empty ones equal, membranous, broadly eae ‘faintly nerved. 
Flowering glumes close above the empty ones, equal, broad, truncate 
many-nerved, membranous. Palea several-nerved but 2 of the nerves 
very prominent. Styles distinct, with short stigmas. Fruiting glumes 
and palea enclosing the grain but not harden ed. 
enus is limited to the seeps species, which is endemic. It has the 
ai 
habit ot Air 
subulifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 208.—A glabrous proie 
or ont perennial; with short ascending branches, covered at the 
base with the short broad closely imbricate sheaths of old pee 
mee in short dense tufts at the ends of the branches, linear-subulate, 
t, under $ in. long, the ligula split into cilia. — Peduncles from the 
tatie erect, filiform, 1 to 2 in. long, encased at the base in 2 or 3 long 
narrow leaf-sheaths. Panicle broad and loose, 4 in. long or rather 
more, with capillary spreading slightly divided branches, Spikelets 
pedicellate, scarcely above } line be , usually dark-coloured, glabrous. 
Outer glumes as long as the flowering ones. 
Queensland. Glasshouse cutting d Hill; Rockingham Bay, on roc cks, 
— completely covering them in dense masses, Dallachy, alsoin Leichhas "di's 
collection. 
19. ISACHNE, R. Br. 
Spikelets 2-lowered, both flowers hermaphrodite or the upper female 
or the lower male, e, small, in loose panieles, the rhachis of the spikelet 
tenure above the empty glumes, glabrous and not produced above 
the flowering ones. Glumes unawned, convex, faintly nerved,2 outer 
empty ones nearly equal ; prere ones o áfirmer eonsistence, closely 
sessile or the upper one slightly raised. Palea as long as the glume. 
Styles distinct. Grain enclosed in the hardened glume and palea, 
from them. 
