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glume on a rather long silky-hairy stipes, seven h'nes long, ad- 

 pressed silky-hairy, the hyaline involute margins ending in a 

 very thin acute lobe on each side of the awn, fully two lines 

 long. Awn glabrous or minutely scabrous, stout, three inches 

 long. Palea as long as the entire base of the glume, glabrous 

 or minutely pubescent. Superior lodicule linear lanceolate, 

 hyaline, two and a-half lines long ; the inferior lodicules 

 shorter, linear-oblong, opaque-w^hite, hyaline and toothed at the 

 end. Stamens three, anthers five to six lines long, with diver- 

 gent and hair-tufted points. 



Open parts in the stringybark forests {JEucalyptus ohliqua) at 

 TJraidla, Mount Lofty Eange, and scrub lands about Mount 

 Jagged, towards Encounter Bay ; flowering in October. B. Tate. 



The species is dedicated to Baron Sir F. von Mueller, F.E.S., 

 as a slight tribute of my personal esteem, and in grateful ac- 

 knowledgment of the assistance rendered me in my studies of 

 South Australian plants. 



Among Australian congeners this new species occupies a 

 place near IS. flavescens and S. ieretifolia, from both of which it 

 is conspicuously different by its branching leafless habit and 

 paucity of flowers. 



