628 CXLIV. GRAMINE. [ Eriachne. 
Panicle dense, 14 to 2 in. long, the rhachis slightly hirsute. Spikelets 
sessile on the short branches. Outer glumes 2 to 21 lines long, more 
ensely hairy all over, with a fine awn usually about 1 in. long. Palea 
tapering into 2 fine awn-like points a little shorter than the glume 
itself. 
N. Australia. Gilbert River, Armit ; Norman River, Gulliver. 
. E. squarrosa, R. Br. Prod. 183.—Stems erect, 2 ft. high or 
more, the nodes densely bearded with long silky hairs. Panicle dense, 
long. Spikelets sessile and crowded along the short erect 
orslightly spreading branches. Outer glumes nearly 4 lines long, 
tapering to a fine point, hispid with long rigid spreading hairs. 
Flowering glumes nearly as long, narrow, hairy outside, tapering into 
an awn of about lin. Palea tapering into a short entire point.—4ira 
squarrosa, Spreng. Syst. 1. 278. 
N. Australia. Victoria River, Elsey. 
Queensland. Endeavour River and Bustard Bay, Banks and Solander. 
The Molucca plant, pe and figured by Brongniart in Duperr. Voy. Bot. 24, 
r, bu 
t. 3, as E. squarrosa, t with a 2-awned palea, would appear to me rather to 
represent the E. Armittii. 
nerved. Flowering glumes about as long, sprinkled with bairs met 
side, the fine awn under 4 in. long. Palea tapering into an entire 0 
slightly notched point.—Kunth, Rev. Gram. t. 64 ; Aira levis, Spreng. 
Syst. i. 278. 
N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Victoria River, 
and Sturt’s Creek, F. Mueller, 
e ; the base of the 
stem, hispid with short spreading hairs. Panicle short loose, rather 
} cake 
mens seen, owering glumes shorter, hairy all over, tapering on z 
slender awn nearly 1 in. long. Palea tapering intoa fine bifid pomt» 
Aira rara, Spreng. Syst. i. 278. 
Queensland. Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown. 
6. E. agrostidea, F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 82.--A small tufted slender 
