Order GRAMINE^. 



GENUS XL DICHELACHNE, Endlicher. 



Spikelets long, narrow, i -flowered, shining. Empty glumes 2, mem- 

 branous, acuminate. Flowering glume as long, on a bearded pedicel, 

 scabrid or silky, 2-fid, or entire at the tip, with a straight, twisted, or 

 flexuose awn from the back or between the lobes, which is not jointed 

 or thickened at the base. Palea shorter, linear, 2-fid. Scales 2 

 Stamens 3. Grain long, terete, free. DISTRIBUTION OF GENUS : 

 AUSTRALIA, NORFOLK ISLAND, TASMANIA, NEW ZEA- 

 LAND. Etymology: From two Greek words signifying a "cloven 

 hoof" and " chaff," in allusion to the bifid Palea. 



ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES : 



Perennial. Culms stout, i 3 feet high. Spikelets 



-J f-inch long i. D. stipoides. 



Annual. Culms slender. Panicle dense. Spikelets 



J-inch long 2. JD. crinita. 



Annual. Culms slender. Panicle lax. Spikelets 



J-inch long 3. D. sciurea. 



1. DICHELACHNE STIPOIDES. 



WIRY DICHELACHNE. 

 (Plate XIV.) 



STIPA TERETIFOLIA, Steud. Bentham Flora Australiensis, Vol. VII., 567. 

 AGROSTIS RIGIDA, A. Richard. DICHELACHNE RIGIDA, Steudel. 

 DICHELACHNE STIPOIDES, Hook. fil. Flora. N.Z., I., 294, t. 66. Flora, 

 Tasm., II., 112. Handb. N.Z. Flora, I., 325. 



A DENSELY-TUFTED or tussac grass, its habitat being near the sea, on 

 banks or rocks. Perennial. Flowers December January. Culms 



