Piate 2606. 
DANTHONIA OREOBOLOIDES, Stapf. 
GRAMINES. Tribe AVENE. 
D. ig ag gt ak ance affinis D. exigue, Stapf 
pauciflora, Buch. : Triodia exigua, Kirk), sed minor, 
tenuior, ae ae pene exsertis integris acuminatis dis- 
tincta. 
Gramen cespites densissimos 1 poll. vix altiores formans, innova- 
tionibus creberrimis cum culmis floriferis fasciculetis. Cw mi floriferi 
cata ; vaginez arcte, laxe striate ; ligule pilorum brevissimorum serie 
notatz ; lamine tenuiter setaceo- Subulate, acute, 4 poll. longe, 
curve, eves. Spicule solitarie in culmorum apice, albide, 15 lin. 
longer, circiter 3-flore ; rhachilla parce pilosula. Glume sequales, 
ovato ane icriggs oir vel obtuse, ima basi obsolete 5- -nerves, 
ceterum |-ne Valve oblonge, integre, breviter acuminate, vix 
1} lin, ead. ah pe utrinque penicillis minutis ornate, 7-nerves, 
nervo medio interdum in mucronulum ae callo minuto bar- 
bulato obtuso. Palea valvam subequans, carinis superne scabris. 
Lodicule glabre. Anthere } lin. longe. pn glabrum. 
New Gunga: Mount Scratchley, 12,200 feet, Giulianetti. 
T have no doubt that oe is the grass which Sir Ferdinand von 
Miiller described in Trans. Roy. Soc. Vict. i. 2. pp. 38, 39, and 
named provisionally Seems oreoboloides. 
Fig. 1, a part of the a 2,a ligule; 3, a spikelet; 4, a valve i out) ; 
5, a in (side view); 6, a pa ale; 7, a lodicule; 8,4 pistil, All enlar 
