638 CXLIV. GRAMINE. [Distichlis. 
Gram. t. 181; Poa thalassica, Kunth, Enum. i. 326; Rev. Gram. t. 
81, 82; Distioklia thalassica and D. maritima, E Desv. in C. Ga ay, Fl. 
Chil. vi. 397, 398. 
Victoria. Various points of the sea-coast, F. Mueller and others ; near Skipton, 
When; Murray River, mcr i Hopkins River, Sullivan 
Tasmania. Port Dal alrymple, R. Brown ; common on the sea- coasts, J. D. Hooker 
and others 
S. Australia. St. Vincent's and Spencer's Gulfs, F. Mueller and others. 
Some specimens from Kangaroo Island, Henzenvoeder, in Herb. F. Muell, have 
Tm densely tufted barren rines covered with i T iriedté leaves with shortly 
spreading pungent lamins of 3 or 4 lines. I have not seen the one grain, but some 
far advanced ovaries The oie show the thickened pericarp described by Kunth and 
inal generic c shareater given by Rafinesque would have 
been dnte insufficient for i identification were it not for the specific synonyms he 
quotes, 
87. ELYTROPHORUS, Beauv. 
Spikelets small and flat, few-flowered, sessile, in dense compound 
des clusters crow wded in a eylindrical spike or the lower ones 
oints or short awns, 1 or 2 upper glumes empty or with male 
Palea folded, with 2 dorsal wings. Stamen 1. Styles free, distinet. 
Grain smooth, free 
The genus is limited to the single Australian species, widely spread over tropical 
Asia and Africa, 
1. E. articulatus, Beauv.; Kunth, Enum. i i 391, Rev. Gram. t. 
rarely 1 line long without the points, the awns of the flowering RA 
about as long as or rarely longer the an the glume. Dorsal wings of t 
palea entire or denticulate, either both or one only rather broad. 
N. Australia. Victoria River, F. Mueller ; between Norman and Gilbert 
Rivers, Gulliver. 
Rockhampton and neighbouring districts, O'Shanesy, Bowman; 
Bowen Downs, Birch. 
Ges: Murray River, F, Mueller ; Charlotte Waters, Central Australia, 
