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Second glume broad to above the middle, pubescent on the back, and densely fringed 
on each side by long spreading hairs, the upper part narrow and glabrous, or 
nearly so. 
Third glume shorter, thin, faintly nerved and not ciliate, either empty or enclosing 
a small palea. 
Fruiting glume and palea thin and almost hyaline. 
Value as a fodder.—An excellent grass, nutritious and palatable to 
stock. It grows under the shade of trees, and under the protection of 
shrubs and stones. It withstands severe drought, keeping up a 
growth when many other grasses are dried up. 
Habitat and range.-—Found in South Australia, Victoria, New South 
Wales and Queensland. An interior species. 
3. Neurachne Munroi, F.y.M. 
Botanical name.—Munroi, in honour of General William Munro, an 
eminent British authority on grasses. 
Where jigured.—Icones Plantarum, t. 1239. 
Botanical description (B. F1., vii, 508).— 
Stems from a more or less woolly knotty base under 1 foot high. 
Leaves narrow, conyolute, or subulate, ciliate at the nodes and ligula, otherwise 
glabrous. 
Spike narrow-cylindrical, 1 to nearly 2 inches long. 
Rhachis pubescent. 
Spikelets 24 to 3 lines long, with a tuft of hairs at their base. 
‘nik nearly as long as the spikelet, thin, glabrous, or with a few marginal 
cilia. 
Second glume more rigid, acutely acuminate, with about seven very prominent 
nerves, the marginal ones fringed in the lower half with long cilia. 
Third glume shorter, much thinner, glabrous, about five-nerved, with a small palea. 
Fruiting glume and palea thin and hyaline, the palea larger than the glume. 
Value as a fodder.—A useful ‘grass, believed to be nutritious, often 
affording a bite to stock in sheltered situations amongst scrub. 
Habitat and range.—Found in South Australia, Victoria, and New 
South Wales. An interior species, found frequently amongst mulga 
scrub (Acacia aneura and allied species). 
17. PEROTIS. 
Spikelets one-flowered, sessile, or shortly pedicellate along the 
continuous rhachis of a loose simple spike or raceme. 
Glumes three, two outer empty ones linear, rigid, tapering into long 
terminal straight awns, the lowest the longest. 
Terminal flowering glume much smaller, thin, and hyaline, the palea 
still smaller. 
Styles very shortly united at the base, the plumose stigmas short. 
Grain narrow, free, longer than the terminal glume, enclosed in the 
two rigid outer ones. 
