630 CXLIV. GRAMINEX. [ Eriachne. 
Panicle loose, with tew spreading branches. Spikelets shortly pedicel- 
es 
scarcely so long as the glume itself. Palea hairy, tapering into a 
deeply bifid awnlike point. 
Queensland. Bowen Downs, Bir 
ch. 
Central Australia. Lake Eyre, Andrews ; Charlotte Waters, Giles. 
W. Australia. Murchison River, Oldfield. 
5 . . 
Flowering glumes hairy outside and ciliate, tapering into an 
alea entire.-—Aira effusa, 
i S 
Queensland. Endeavour River, Banks and Solander; Sandstone Ridges near 
Rockhampton, 0’ Shanesy, 
Also in the eastern provinces of India and in South China. 1 
and sprinkled on the baek with a few hairs, tapering into a fine n 
or awn shorter than the glume itself.  Palea entire, slightly 
hairy. 
tralia. Careening Bay, N. W. Coast, A. Cunningham; Upper Victoria 
ue. 
N. Aus ay, 
and Fitzmaurice Rivers, F. Mueller. 
13. E. ovata, Nees in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 418.—Stems from a 
horizontal glabrous or woolly rhizome erect, rather rigid, 1 to lí 4s 
igh ; glabrous or nearly so in the typicalform. Leaves chiefly at the 
of the stem, very narrow, erect, with subulate points. Pame 
dense, ovate or lanceolate, 1 to 2 in. long uter glumes acute, 
nearly 4 lines long, glabrous in the typical form. Flowering glumes 
as long or longer, pale-coloured, acutely acuminate but not awned, 
ensely hirsute to above the middle with spreading hairs. Palea as 
long, shortly bifid, less hai on the back.—Z. Preissiana, Nees 15 
P5 Eroina 5. 10% es 
W. Australia. Swan River. mond. . m. 971, 972; Mount Brown, 
Cartier, » Drummond, 1st coli. n. 971, 
