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Species DuUBIAE VEL EXCLUDENDAE. 
§. acrociliata, Reader in Vict. Nat. xiii. 167. S. Readeri, 
F. Muell. nomen 
VICTORIA. » Sandy desert, Lowanshire, 1895, Reader. 
Placed by the author near 8. compressa, S. Drummondii, 
S. pycnostachya and 8. setacea. 
S. campylachne, Nees in Lehm. PI. Preiss, ii. 99. 
See note under S. semibarbata, R. Br. 
S. eremophila, Reader in Vict. Nat. xvii. 154. 
To judge from the description this species must be closely 
allied to S. oligostachya and S. leptophylla, both having lobed 
valves and ciliate ligules. 
It seems to differ from 8. oligostachya in having longer glumes 
(1:4—-1°8 em. long), a shorter valve (0:7 cm. long), and a longer 
awn (8-10 cm. long), and from S. leptophylla in the reddish- 
brown indumentum of the valve and in the longer, stouter and 
twice geniculate awn. 
S. laeviculmis, Nees in Lehm. Pl. Preiss, ii. 99. 
Van Diemen’s Land ? 
S. longearistata, Steud. Syn. Pl. Gram. 127. 
“ Urville legit ad Port George, N. Holl. 
S. Luehmanii, Reader in Vict. Nat. xvi. 158. 
Victoria. Sandy Desert, Lowan, 1898, Reader. 
Placed by the author near S. semibarbata and S. hemipogon, 
from both of which it differs in having much smaller (7-8 mm. 
long) glumes, these truncate and toothed. 
S. micrantha, Cav. Ic. v. 42, t. 467 (1799) non R. Br. q.v. 
This species is probably identical with S. ramossissima, 
Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb., Ser. vi. (1831), i. 74, which has 
as its type Sieber Agrostoth. 82, with the valve very scabrid but 
not hairy and the awn about 1°6 cm. long. It is not a true 
Stipa but a Dichelachne, having 2 not 3 lodicules. 
S. micrantha, R. Br. Prod. 175 (1810) non Cav. 
he type specimen (Brown 6201) differs from S. micrantha, 
Cayv., in having the valve distinctly hairy all over and the awn 
about 4 cm. ‘Jong. This plant agrees entirely with Sieber 
' Agrostoth. 64, described by Nees in Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post, 30, 
under the name of 8S. verticillata. This also is a Dichelachne. 
S. pubinodis, Trin. and Rupr. Gram. Stip. 50. 
To judge from the description, this species must be closely 
allied to S. pubescens, R. Br. There are two specimens from 
Van Diemen’s Land written up “S. pubinodis, Trin.” by 
Munro. One is Gunn 588 and is identical with S. pubescens, 
R. Br., the other collected by Llotsky, is the stout form alluded 
to under 8. pubescens and does not agree with the description 
of S. pubinodis, Trin. and Rupr. 
