Order GRAMINE^. 

 Genus, Deyeuxia; Sub-Order, Agrostidecz. 



GENUS XIV., 2. DEYEUXIA, Clarion. 



Spikelets pedicel led, i -flowered, panicled or spike-like, the rachis of the 

 spikelet articulates above the 2 empty persistant glumes. Flowering glume 

 membranous, with a fine dorsal awn, which is usually bent and twisted, 

 sometimes minute, rarely wanting, tufted at base with silky hairs, and 

 with a long pencil of hair proceeding from the terminal rachis. Palea 

 membranous, half or nearly as long as the flowering glume. Grain 

 enclosed in the glume and palea, free, or partially adhering. DISTRIBU- 

 TION OF GENUS : TROPICAL AND TEMPERATE REGIONS OF 

 BOTH HEMISPHERES. Etymology: Name in honour of M. 

 Deyeux, a French chemist. 



DEYEUXIA SCABRA, BENTH. 



AUSTRALIAN BENT GRASS 

 (Plate XXVL, 2.) 



AGROSTIS SCABRA, R. Br. Prod. 172, Hook. fil. Fl. Tasm., II., 116, t. 

 1 60. AGROSTIS RUDIS, Roem. and Schult. Syst, II., 360. CALAMA- 

 GROSTIS RUDIS, Steud. Syn. Glum., I., 192. A CONTRACTA, F. Muell., 

 Herb. Hook, fil., I.e., t. 161. A DECIPIENS, R. Br. Prod. 172. CINNA 

 DECIPIENS, Kunth., Enum., I., 207. DEYEUXIA SCABRA, Benth. Flora 

 Australiensis, VEL, 583. 



A TALL, tufted, soft-leaved grass, found at 1 500 feet altitude. Flowers 

 December January. Perennial. Culms i 2 feet long, smooth, 

 weak, and decumbent at the base. Leaves smooth, flat, striated, flaccid, 

 narrow, much shorter than the culms ; sheaths striated ; ligule short, 

 truncate. Panicle 2 8 inches long, much contracted, the short 

 capillary branches scattered, or in distant whorls of two or four. 

 Spikelets shining, pale straw-colour. Empty glumes, 3-nerved, lateral 

 nerves very short. Flowering glume sharply bifid at the top, and with a 



