884 GRAMINE. (Danthonia. 
Culms 1-4ft. Leaves involute. Panicle 4—6in., ovate, 
dense. Awn seldom twisted 3 es .. 3. D. bromoides. 
Culms 2-5 ft. Leaves involute. Panicle 4-18in., lax. 
Awn flattened and twisted at the base oe .. 4. D. Raoulu. 
tt Culms shorter, 6-18 in. Panicle small, 1-3 in. long; spikelets few, 
8-12. 
Culms 6-18in. Leaves involute, compressed. Spikelets 
8-12. Nerves of flowering glume connected by trans- 
verse veinlets etd oe oe st .. 5. D. crassiuscula. 
Culms 2-6in. Leaves involute, flattened, erect, rigid, 
pungent-pointed, glaucous. Spikelets 3-8 5 46 
Culms 6-18in., much branched below. Leaves very 
narrow, involute, terete, wiry. Spikelets 3-8; awn 
twisted .. a4 a Le we .. 7. D. australis. 
Culms 6-12in. Leaves flat or involute, not terete. 
Spikelets 4-8; awn not twisted os a aie 
Culms 9-14in. Leaves flat, thin. Spikelets 6-12; awn 
twisted sie be SE ae os 
6. D. pungens. 
8. D. oreophila. 
9. D. planifolia. 
** Two outer glumes longer than the spikelets. 
Culms 12-24in., often pilose. Panicle 1-4in., narrow. 
Flowering glume with two marginal tufts of hairs, but 
no transverse rings. Awn long ~ ue .. 10. D. pilosa. 
Culms 3-30 in., usually glabrous. Panicle 1-4 in., narrow, 
compact. Flowering glume with 2 dense transverse 
rings of silky hairs. Awn iong ot ye .. 11. D. senuannularis. 
Culms 3-12in., glabrous. Panicle #?-2in. Flowering 
glume sparsely silky, transverse rings obscure. Awn 
hardly longer than the glume eis Be .. 12. D. Buchanani. 
Culms 38-9in., glabrous. Panicle 4-ldin. Flowering 
glume with 2 minute tufts of hairs on the margins 
(often confluent). Awn very shortindeed .. .. 13. D. nuda. 
1. D. Cunninghamii, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 332.—Densely 
tufted, often forming large tussocks. Culms stout, 2-5 ft. high, 
i1-1in. diam. at the base, glabrous or more or less pilose Leaves 
14-4 ft. long, ++4in. broad, rigid and coriaceous, flat or concave, 
strongly nerved, midrib prominent beneath, glabrous or pilose on 
the margins and upper surface in the lower half of the leaf, 
margins scaberulous; sheaths rather lax, often 4in. broad or 
even more, deeply grooved, usually silky-pilose in the grooves ; 
ligules reduced to a transverse line of densely set short silky hairs. 
Panicle large, erect or inclined, effuse or compact, 6—-18in. long; 
branches few or many, solitary or binate or in alternate fascicles, 
3-12in. long; branchlets slender, capillary, scaberulous, few- 
flowered. Spikelets rather distant, pedicelled, 4-4in. long with- 
out the awns, 3-7-flowered. Two outer glumes unequal, lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate, membranous, 3-nerved, the upper one shorter 
than the flowering glume above it. Flowering glumes clothed with 
long silky hairs at the base and along the lower half of the margins, 
glabrous elsewhere, 7-9-nerved, deeply 2-fid at the tip with the 
points produced into short awns; awn from between the lobes, 
about 4in. long, straight or recurved, not flattened nor twisted at the 
