Eragrostis. | CXLIV. GRAMINER. 643 
Skor. I. CravNosrACHYA.—Spikelets narrow or very small, some- 
what flattened, the glumes rather distant, loosely imbricate, overlapping 
the rhachis at the base so as not to leave the longitu tudinal furrow of 
Megastachya, usually very thin or hyaline, the lateral nerve on each 
side usually faint or marginal, t the rhachis often as readily disarticu- 
lating as in Poa, the palea rarely persistent after the fall of the grain. 
1. E. tenella, — Benth. Fl. Hongk. 431.—An erect tufted 
annual, from 6 in. to near 2 ft. high. Leaves flat, usually narrow, 
glabrous. Panicle Eily GEE " the greater part of 
with very numerous capillary muc 
distant whorls or clusters. Spikelets geste vn "en rarely $ line 
long, with 3 or 4 or rarely 6 flowers. Glum s thin, alm i 
about 4 line long, the lateral nerve on ete side sake marginal, very 
loosely imbricate, the rhachis articulate. Palea glabrous, as long as t the 
glume. Simons sn a 1 3. Grain very small, ovoid.— Poa 
vii Linn.; R. Br. Prod. 181. 
i Aus trálla bie eae and Fitzmaurice River, F. Mueller ; Gulf of 
pentari, Landsborough ares 
gue Tyne ; Port Denison, Fitzallan ; Rock 
hampto 
Ebbot district, i ; 
Mif disti ing dst "Theses on. Q' Shanesy ; Kenne dy district, Daintree ; 
Vict King River, F. Mueller 
bs Cen ustralia, Macdonnell Range and Charlotte Waters, Giles ; Stephenson 
iver, p vue Stuart. 
Widely spread in eastern tropical Asia. 
Link (P. amabilis, Linn. ) 
onfusion ser ac - ree e and E. — 
Pig clearod up y Mun Soc. , and the result given in Fl. 
y ge gk. as above dera y "Kunth's figure v I totela; Rev. Gram. t, 147, petet 
. E. nigra, Nees in Steud. Syn. Glum. 267, var. trachycarpa.— 
Leaves only seen in one PPRD narrow, rather short, glabrous. 
Panicle 1 ft. long or more, very loos with very long capillary divided 
ranches, bearing few small Garkccloured uon m long "viet 
pedicels, the spikelets ovate, 
quite glabrous, Flowering glumes broki, tuse or geer acute, 
hyaline, the lateral nerves scarcely conspionous: Palea as long, usually 
road. Stamens 3, with small anther rain large in proportion, 
globular, prominently jadis ju Secale 
N.S. Wales. New England, C. Stuart ; Armidale, Perrott. 
authority of Munro that I mier eic this to the East Tota E. nigra, from which 
our specimens differ slightly in the longer pedicels and more prominently rugose 
It is on the 
. imbecilla, Benth. —Stems infos aud branobed. si the base, 
inh and filiform, ascending to from 6in. to 1 ft. Leaves 2 Fash 
spreading. Panicle loose and slender, with E distant Mita any 
undivided. Spikelets few, pedicellate, li io 2 lines long, ung loosely 
