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l. Microleena Gunnii (Hook. fil.) ; culmis elongatis foliosis vaginis foliisque scaberulis pilosisve, 
racemo elongato subsimplici, pedicellis breviusculis, glumis minimis acutis stipite florum sequilongis, aristis 
palearum inzqualibus, paleis scaberulis v. dorso ciliatis inferiore intermedio } breviore, floris hermaphroditi 
inferiore acuminato v. subaristato. (Gunn, 1492.) (Tas. CLV. 4.) 
Has. Penquite, near Launceston, Gunn ; Cheshunt, Archer; Huon River, O/dfield.— (Fl. Nov.) 
Culms tufted, branched below, 2-3 feet high, leafy. Sheaths rough or polished. Leaves hairy or scabrous, 
rarely smooth, their blade 2 inches long. Panicle drooping, slender, 6-8 inches long. Spikelets sessile or on very 
short pedicels, 1$ inch long, including the long awns, the lower of which is fully one-third shorter than the other. 
Glumes very small, as long as the stalk of the flower, sharp-pointed. Palea deeply furrowed, rough or ciliated at 
the back; intermediate one acuminate, or with a very short awn.— Very nearly allied to M. stipoides, but larger, 
more rough and hairy, with a shorter pedicel to the flower.—PrATE CLV. A. Fig. 1, spikelet; 2, hermaphrodite 
flower; 3, squamule, ovary, and stamens :—all magnified. 
2. Microlzena stipoides (Br. Prodr. 210) ; glabra v. vaginis foliisque parce pilosis, culmis gracilibus 
basi ramosis foliosis, panicula gracili nutante, pedicellis inferioribus elongatis, glumis minimis acutis sti- 
pite florum brevioribus, aristis palearum subzequilongis, paleis scaberulis subegualibus v. inferiore + bre- 
viore, floris hermaphroditi palea inferiore acuta v. breviter aristata.—Kunth, Agrost. p. 16; Fl. N. Zeal. i. 
289.  Ehrharta stipoides, Lab. Fl. Nov. Holl. i. p. 16. t. 118. (Gunn, 997.) 
Has. Launceston and Flinders’ Island, etc., Gunn.—(Fl. Nov.) 
Distris. South-eastern and South-western Australia, from Port Jackson to Swan River; New Zea- 
land. 
A slender Grass, 18 inches to 2 feet high, smooth or slightly hairy on the sheaths and leaves, which are short 
and flat (2-3 inches long).—Panicle branched at the base, long, slender, nodding. Lower spikelets on long slender 
stalks. Glumes very minute, deciduous, generally shorter than the bearded pedicel of the flowers. Flowers 1 inch 
long, the two lower of one palea each, their awns of equal length, in the lower 4 shorter than in the upper. Lower 
palea of the upper flower sharp or with a short bristle. 
Gen. III. DIPLAX, Banks et Sol. 
Glume minimæ, 3-flore ; floribus sessilibus, approximatis, basi nudis; inferioribus neutris, 1-paleatis, 
paleis acuminatis v. aristatis ; supremo hermaphrodito 2-paleato, palea inferiore acuminata, superiore hya- 
lina. Sguamule 2, glabre. Stamina 2-4. — Caryopsis libera, paleis obtecta.—Culmis simplicibus v. ramo- 
sis; folis elongatis, planis; panicula nutante. 
A Tasmanian and New Zealand genus, very nearly allied to Microlena, but differing in the sessile flowers not 
hairy at the base, and the obscurely awned pales of the neuter flowers. (Name in allusion to the two stamens of 
the first-described New Zealand species.) 
l. Diplax Tasmanica (Hook. fil.); glaberrima, culmis cespitosis basi foliosis (foliis planis) superne 
gracilibus, racemo brevi rarifloro, spiculis longe pedunculatis, gluma superiore obtusa inferiore ter majore 
paleis 1 breviore, fl. neutr. paleis breviter aristatis, fl. hermaph. palea inferiore subacuta, staminibus 2. 
(Gunn, 1481.) (Tas. CLV. B.) 
Has. Recherche Pay, Gunn.— (Fl. Dec.) 
A perfectly smooth, tufted Grass, a foot high.—Cuims tufted and leafy below, very slender above. Leaves 4 
inches long, 2 broad, flat. Raceme of six to eight large spikelets ($ inch long with the awns), on slender, flexuous 
peduncles. Glumes very unequal, blunt, the upper largest, one-fourth as long as the palea above it. Palea of the lower 
neuter flower shorter and with shorter awns than the upper. Lower palea of the fertile flower sharp. Stamens 2. 
—Pzrark CLV. B. Fig. 1, spikelet; 2, hermaphrodite flowers; 3, squamule, ovary, and stamens :—all magnified. 
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