CXLIV. GRAMINEA. 633 
notched at the end, obtuse or the keel or midrib produced into a 
point or straight awn. Palea usually as long as the glume or nearly 
so. Grain free within the glume and palea, or adnate to the palea. 
82. ECTROSIA, R. Br. 
Spikelets with 1 or rarely 2 fertile flowers and 2 or more male 
flowers or em ty glumes above them, in a terminal panicle, the rhachis 
of the spikelet articulate above the 2 outer glumes. Outer empty 
glumes unawned, the 2nd rarely with a short point; glume of the 
perfect flower with a prominent point or short awn, the upper glumes 
tapering into fine straight awns. Styles distinct. Grain enclosed in 
the thin or scarcely hardened glume and palea. 
The genus is limited to Australia. 
Panicle compact and dense, with short erect branches. 
Flowering glume 2 lines long, rather rigid, 3-nerved, i 
entire, tapering into a short awn . . . . . . * L E, Schultziie 
Flowering glume 1 line long, thin, notched, with an awn 
.Dearly aslonp'asibelf Gesina ra D Ts 
Panicle slender, loose, the short branches spreading. 
owering glume about 4 line long, thin, notched, with a 
Very short point: 4 a do 3 2C UL ae 
Flowering glume about 1 line long, 3-nerved, tapering 
into a short point; glumes of the fruiting spikelet 
SQuarrose . oos ee ee r 
r 2. E. leporina, 
3. E. agrostoides, 
4. E. Gulliveri. 
tapering int rt awn, the next nearly similar but with a 
longer awn and the flower male only, the upper 20r 3 glumes narrower 
and empty. 
N. Australia Between Maurice and Victoria Rivers, F. Mueller ; Port Darwin, 
Schultz, n. 987. 
acute, about llinelong. Flowering glume nearly as long, narrow, 
hyaline, 1-nerved, slightly notched, with a fine awn nearly às long as 
