I12 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
succulent habit, is not likely to be improved by cultivation. It is 
only grazed by horses and cattle during its flowering and seeding 
season, and the hard wiry nature of its foliage renders it worthless, 
either in pasture or as fodder. It might, however, be utilised in 
the manufacture of paper, as it possesses a strong fibrous structure. 
(Buchanan, /zdirgenous Grasses of New Zealand.) 
Western Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria. 
158. Zoysia pungens, V7l/d., (Syn. Rottbellia uniflora, A. Cunn.); 
B.FI., vii., 506. 
A grass of considerable value on littoral swamps and dry flats 
near the sea. According to Kirk, it is found sometimes forming 
a compact turf of dry land, and affording a large supply of succu- 
lent herbage for horses, cattle and sheep. Its value, however, in 
such localities, if bulkier grasses would grow there, must be com- 
paratively little, as, from its close-growing habit, it chokes out all 
other species. It is evidently much relished by stock, and is 
worthy of introduction in sand-hill districts near the sea, or saline 
soil inland; it would clothe the wet flats with a valuable sward. 
It will be easiest propagated by roots, the closely-matted, wiry 
fibres forming coherent masses of turf, which are easily conveyed 
in fragments to a distance without injury. (Buchanan, /adigenous 
Grasses of New Zealand.) 
Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland. 
