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ICONES PLANTARUM. 



Plate 1241. 



NEURACHNE ALOPECUROIDEA, E. Br. 



Nenraclme 



Gramine^, Tribe Andropogone^. 



terminal 



ovoideam v. cylmdraceam confertaa. Glumce 4, 2 exteriores niajores 

 plurmcryes yacuiB ; 3a. minor, tennior, sub-5-nervis, paleam parvam 

 s9Bpni3 fovens ; terminalis florida tenais, hyalina, tenniter 3-5-nervis. 

 Palea glumse florid^ seqnalis v. major, tenuis, hyalina, 2-costatii. 

 btyli 2, distmcti. Canjop,sis libera, glumis inclusa. 



N. alopeeiiroidea, B. Br. Prod. 196, Spica ovoidea v. breviter oblonga 



sericea, glnmis exterioribus acmninatis, prima dorso secunda margine 

 longe cibatis. ° 



_Hab. Southern colonies of Australia, from the western districts of 

 Victoria to King George's Sound and Swan River. 



Gramen perenne, erectum, l-lfpedale, glabrum. Folia ad basin 

 cauhs brcvia, plana, ngidula, caulina pauca, parva ; vagina ad oram 

 dense ciliata. Spica ovoidea v. oblonga, latiuscala, densa J-1 poll 

 longa, defuse sericea, glumarum tamen acuminibus viridibus prominen- 

 tibus. SpicuIcB numerosoe, sessiles, ad 3 lin. longse, nonnulls^ad basin 

 spiciB minores, steriles v. ad glnmam unicam reductse. Ghima exte- 

 rior 5-7-nervis acute acuminata, pilis longis patentibus mar-ine dor- 

 soque cihata ; 2a. panter vacua, paullo major longiusque acuminata, 

 7-9-nervis, margino pilis longis patentibus ciliata ; 8a. paullo minor vix 

 acuminata nervis paucioribus breviter pubescentibus nee lon^e ciliatis 

 paleam v. floris radimentum fovena ; terminalis florida parva, tenuis; 

 fere hyalina, tenmter 5-nervi3. Palea tenuis, gluma) florid® aeq uilonga 

 V. paullo longior, prominenter 2.costata. 



m 



very 



, ,." „ ■'.* V , ' — >^ vxx>. vci y reuucea inin ana 



hyaline flowering glume an2 palea, notwithstanding the absence of any 



where it would take its place nea7PewtTslnd^^ fZ otherTSraTn 

 which the spikelets are arranged all round the rhachis of a simple 

 spike or raceme.— G. Bentham. ^ 



Tig. 1 Outer empty glumes of the spikelet seen from the tack of the loirest 

 one tZ iS' "" '"'"^ ^°^^'" ^'^ ^^^^^ ^^''-"^ -- ^ -tl^- longer Ldnarrer 



