632 CXLIV. GRAMINER. [ Eriachne. 
17. E. mucronata, R. Br. Prod. 184.—Stems very slender but 
rigid, about 1 ft. high. Leaves short, spreading, subulate, with fine 
points, but not so pungent as in Æ. sc cle ranthoides, the lower sheaths 
sprinkled with rigid hairs or glabrous, the upper ones distant. Panicle 
rather loose, 1 to 14 in. long, of few spikelets closely resembling those 
of . obtusa, but rather larger, and the flowering glumes tipped with 
short points exceeding the outer glumes.—Z. brev ifolia, R. Br. l.c. ; 
Aira mucronata, Spreng. Xyst.i. 276. 
Queensland. Endeavour River, Banks and ipie) Dunrobin, nanii and 
other localities near Rockhampton, 0' Shanesy, Thoze 
obtusa, R. Br. Prod. 184.—A variable grass, usually 1 to 2 
ft. high, "üften DEAD in the lower part. Leaves narrow, flat or 
N. tralia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R Brown, poy , Upper 
Victoria Hever and Sea Range, F. Mueller ; Cambridg y ait a ae W. 
Coast, A. Cunningham ; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. : T10F, PD ouall 
Poma Dampier's nbi mae (with smaller spikslets), Wai rhe 
Queensland. Endeavour River, A. Cunningham ; King's Creek, Bowman; 
Wales. Mount Cun pningham in the interior, A. eren between 
the Darling and Cooper’s Creek, Neilson, Victoria Expeditio 
19. E. capillaris, R. Br. Prod. 184. At slender annual of 6 to 10 
M in. 
us ing 
ing ty acute but unawned, hairy all over but not d: ee 
pene as ud as the mme entire, hairy.—Kunth, Rev. Gra > 
i. 276. 
N. Australia. Arnhem Land, N. Coast, R. Brown. 
SUBTRIBE IV. Festrucacez. —Spikelets with Se pi ae 
flowers, rarely reduced to 2, in a loose and spreading = 
d wor panicle rarely capitate, the rhachis of the soikalet articulate hs 
tinuous, usua y produced above the flowers or beari $ 
more terminal empty glumes. Outer glumes usually narrow y g” 
acute or obtuse. Flow wering glum not usually in der, entire OF 
