Eriachne.] CXLIV. GRAMINES. 631 
sa f-sh d stems bel 1 y villous with soft not 
spreading hairs. Panicle more dense, with more numerous and rather smaller spike- 
lets.—W. Australia, Drummond, n. 168, 976 ; Champion Bay, Oldfield, 
Var. pallida. Panicle rather longer and looser. Spikelets pale-coloured, smaller, 
the flowering glumes more pointed and longer in proportion. 
Central Australia. Lake Eyre, Andrews ; Charlotte Waters, Giles. ` 
Nees's descriptive articles on E. ovata and E. Preissiana are word for word the 
ep that in the latter he has substituted spiculis “ oblongis " for 
ovatis." ; 
4. E. melicacea, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 205.—A low tufted species, 
perhaps annual, 6 to 8 in. high. Leaves very narrow, with subulate 
points, often as long as the stem, sprinkled with short spreading hairs 
arising from tubercles. Panicle or raceme of very few (usually 3 to 6) 
pale-coloured pedicellate spikelets. Outer glumes g abrous, acute, 
allida, F. Muell. Herb.—Stems apparently about 2 ft. 
15. E. : a 
high, slender and branching. Leaves flat but narrow, with subulate 
i 4 in. long, the spike- 
w 
but scarcely awned, glabrous on the back except near the 
Palea hairy, tapering to a fine 
16. E. scleranthoides, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 
plant a small much-branched procumbent rigid peren 
branches ascending to lor 2 in., b 
covered with the closely appressed leaf-sheaths. Leaves spreading, 
subulate, rigid and pungent-pointed, ito iin. long. 
9 a short raceme of 3 to 6 spikelets or sometimes only 1 or 2 close 
above the leaves. Outer glumes unde 
ints not produced into 
ading hairs. Palea as 
y Central Australia, Mount Olga, Giles; between Youldeh and Ouldabrima, 
oung, 
Var. elongata. Stems nearly 1 ft. high. Leaves j io 1 im. long, bub ory 
Spreading and cuiii M in the typical form. * Panicle pedunculate, with 6 
to 12 spikelets, —M*‘Donnell Ranges, Giles. 
