634 CXLIV. GRAMINE®. [ Ectrosia. 
the glume. Terminal empty giumes usually 2 or 3, smaller than the 
flowering one but with longer fine awns.--Kunth, Revis. Gram. 
t. 69. 
N. Australia. Coen River, Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Cleveland Bay 
A, Cunningham; Victoria River, F. Mueller; Port Essington, Armstrong ; Port Dar- 
win, Schultz, n. 281; between Norman and Gilbert Rivers, Gulliver. 
Queensland. Cape York, M'Gillivray, Daemel; Endeavour River, Banks and 
Solander ; Brisbane River, F. Mueller ; Darling Downs, Law. 
Var. micrantha. A smaller plant with setaceous leaves. Panicle looser, the 
spikelets much smaller approaching those of E. agrostoides, but rather crowded on the 
short erect branches as in the smaller specimens of E. /eporina.— Victoria River, F. 
Mueller, between Norman and Gilbert Rivers, Gulliver. 
E. spadicea, R. Br. Prod. 186, from Endeavour River, Banks and Solander, appears 
to me not to differ from the typical E. leporina, except in the rather smaller dense 
panicle. 
3. E. agrostoides, Benth.—A slender tufted annual of 6 in. to 1 ft., 
with setaceous leaves, Panicle narrow but oose, 2 to 3 in. long, the 
shorter branches, distant on the longer ones. Glumes very narrow, 
about j line long, the flowering one shortly notched, with a very short 
point-in the notch. Terminal empty ones 2 or 3, tapering into capillary 
awns of 1 to 14 lines, 
N. Australia. Port Essington, Armstrong. t 
W. Australia. A specimen in herb. Hook. marked as from Drummond, bu 
there may be possibly some mistake. 
giving the spikelet a squarrose aspect 
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4, with longer points or awns but rarely exceeding 1 line. 
N. Australia. Between Norman and Gilbert Rivers, Gulliver. The 6 
have frequently as in the eding species only 1 fertile flower but occasional) 
there are 2 fertile ones inda thid male, 
83. HETERACHNE, Benth. 
Spikelets very flat, with 1 fertile flower and several empty glumes 
above it, nearly sessile and crowded in one or more globular heads, the 
rhachis of the spikelet articulate only under the perfect flower, very 
flexuo continuous above it. Glumes complicate, keeled, rather 
obtuse, unawned, 2 outer empty ones persistent, the rest of the spike- 
