642 CXLIV. GRAMINEJE. LEragrostis. 
Grain oblong-linear Pre de eb . . ő. E. leptocarpa. 
Dien unn d hovoid : 6. E. megalosperma. 
Spi numerou w linear, shortly 
po er istant a along the capillary 
ct branches of the 7. E. pilosa. 
Spikelets not very maie “inen-tinccolie 
pedicellate, in a spreading pani . 8. E. leptostachya. 
Secr, II. Me oo — Spikelets ~~ mature very flat. eur es closely im 
loan. in 2 disti rows, leaving a longitudinal furrow or depression between them 
on each side Eds = vipikeat the lateral nerve usually prominent in the middle of each 
side of the 
Base of vis stems glabrous, not at all or scarcely 
ickene 
Spikelets narrow, about 3 lines long, crowded secund 
and spreading or reflexed on the short clustered 
Mr of a simple LE cle. Glumes very 
9. E. Sehultzii. 
Spikelets under 3 lines, sessile in small dense g Jobu- 
bl rs sessile along a simp e 
Sh Stamens usuall spd, E diandra. 
Spikelets : 3 to 6 lines, rather narro ow, u usually ‘sessile 
rect, Sor ed or clustered, rely shortly 
Rice e. Sisi imis a ; ll. E. Brownii. 
"n = 6 lines long, brad göle an crowd 
on a short almo rose t rhachis, Pala keels 
se with long 12. E. concinna. 
Spikelets narrow, A usieied 4) along the long erect 
ranches of à narrow panicle. Palea narrow, 
truncate, glabrous, tt above 4 as long as the 
gl 13. E. speciosa. 
Base of the stem and short sheath of radical leaves 
thickened into an almost bulbous woolly-hairy 
Spikelets shortly Romeo nearly 2 ne broad, the 
base of the flowering glumes woolly-h . » 14, E. laniffora. 
Spikelets sessile, scat va glabrous, above 1 line 
16. E, eriopoda. 
Spikelets shortly Podicellate, glabrous, about 4 line 
broad (xut HK dE eart 
cr. IIL Cylindrostachya.- -Spikelets very narrow, terete or nearly so. Glumes 
Tri appressed. 
Spikelets 10- to 30-flowered, rather obtuse, shortly 
icella panicle. . . 17. E. lacunaria. 
— 12- ie Se owed, obtuse, sessile, usually 
Spikelets 8- to pia nrc gs rather acute, nearly sessile, 
divaricate, o reading branches of the panicle 19. E, stenostachya. 
Poa porrantha, Steud. Syn. Glum. i. 262, im Port cla D’ Urville, is described 
as having the flowering sae with only one nerve on side, and would there- 
fore be an Eragrostis, but his character is insufficient for id aye on. Eragrostis 
eximia, Steud. 1. c ae ew Holland ded New Zealand, with a fences flowering 
glume, is certainly no Eragrostis, rta (pa. deteimined without seeing ^ 
en. 
18. E. falcata. 
