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POA PAPUANA, Stapf. 
GRAMINEX. Tribe, Festuce®. 
Poa papuana, Stapf (sp. nov.) ; affinis P. minimiflore, Stapf, sed 
foliis minus tenuibus rigidioribus scaberulis, spiculis paulo Psat 
valvis acute acuminatis quam palea levi paululo brevioribus divers 
Gramen dense cespitosum, innovationibus aesae- 9 intravaginalibus. 
ulmt erecti, acshagd 3-4 poll. alti, leves, ad medium “vaginati, 
internodiis summo excepto gee gee, bas, athe paucis. Folia ad 
cast congesta, interdum subflabellata, glaberrima ; vagine arcte, 
rinatee, striate ; ligule acutissime, ad 1 lin. longer, hyalinz ; lamine 
acutate, 15-3 poll. long, rigide, erect, scaberule, imprimis ad 
margines at ¢ arinas, preeterea seepe minutissime tuberculate. Pani- 
cule oblong, 7-9 lin. longe, stricte, rami inferiores uaoutatl ioe 
geminati, simplices, 4— l-spiculati, stricti, oblique erecti, fili orm 
scaberuli, in axillis glanduligeri ; pedicelli a. lin. longi, ramis 
Similes. Spicule 1—flore, o plonge, acuminate, n. paululo ace 
virides, vel purpureo- -fuscescentes, interdum a Or ; 
processus brevis. Glwme ovate, acute, vel acuminate, dorso 
basique herbacez, in carina scaberulz, inferior mediam spiculam 
sequans, 1—3-nervis, superior ecules longior, latior, 3-nervis. Valve 
oblonga, acute acuminate, 1 lin. paululo longior, in apice et ad mar- 
angustissime hyalinz, ceterum herbacem, zves, ob nervos 
guelensis, Hook. and P. antarctica, Stapf (Triodia ae 
Hook. £.). In my pa er on the flora of Kinabalu (7’rans. ann. Soc., 
ser. 2, iv. p. 247), I have pointed out that the grass which I then 
escribed a Deyeuxia epileuca was “a very marked species, the 
affinity of which lies rather with some Australian sec (of Deyewxia) 
than with any others, though it is far from being closely connected ” 
and that “the spikelets come, perhaps, nearer to those of D. gunniana, 
