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Awns not longer than the glumes. Panicle loose. Spikelets pedicellate, 

 usually few. 



Leaves narrow, hispid, with spreading hairs. Small slender plants. 

 Outer glumes 1 J lines, glabrous. — 6. E. cihata. 

 Outer glumes, 2 to 2| hnes, shortly hairy. — 13. E. setacea. 

 Leaves glabrous. 



Leaves subulate. Outer glumes glabrous, about 4 hnes long. 



Flowering glumes ciliate only. — 4. E. avenacea. 

 Leaves flat. Outer glumes hairy, about 4 hnes long. 

 Flowering glume hairy all over. — 2. E. aristidea. 

 Panicle narrow, rather more dense, Outer glumes glabrous, 

 about 3 lines long. — 7. E. festucacea. 

 Awn none or reduced to a very small point. 



Panicle narrow. Spikelets pedicellate. Outer glumes about 3 hnes 

 long. _ 



Low plant, with filiform hispid leaves. — 9. E. mehcacea. 

 TaU plant, with glabrous fiat leaves. — 11. E. pallida. 

 Panicle loose or reduced to two or three spikelets. Outer glumes 

 not above 2 lines long. 

 Leaves short, spreading, pungent-pointed, the sheaths covering 



the short branching stems. — 12. E. scleranthoides. 

 Leaves not pungent, the upper ones distant. Spikelets about 2 



lines long. — 10. E. obtusa. 

 Leaves very fine, hirsute. Small plant. Spikelets Agrostis- 

 hke, about 1 hne long. — 5. E. capiUaris. 

 Panicle, dense ovate or oblong. 



Outer glumes 14-19-nerved. — 17. E. nervosa. • 



Outer glumes fewer nerved, plants smaller. — 16. E. ovata. 



1. E. agrosiidea, F. v. M. — Port Darwin, Schultz (No. 143) ; North Coast 

 of Amhem's Land, K'Kinlay. 



2. E. aristidea, F. v. if.— Camp III., Lander Creek, G. F. Hill (No. 322), 

 10/6/1911. 



Recorded. Charlotte Waters, GUes. 



3. E. Armitii, F. v. M. — Gilbert River, Armit. ; Norman River, GulHver. 



4. E. avenacea, R. Br. — ^Near Darwin, G. F. Hill (2nd Series, No. 94), 

 26/7/1913. 



Recorded. Cavern Island, R. Brown ; Victoria River and M'Adam 

 Range, F. v. Mueller ; Port Darwin, Schultz, (No. 350) ; Port Essington, 

 Armstrong. 



5. E. capiUaris, B. Br. — Arnhem Land, N. Coast, R. Brown. 



6. E. ciliata, R. 5r.— Borroloola, G. F. Hill (No. 710), 13/1/1912. 

 Recorded. Arnhem Land, R. Brown ; M'Kinlay ; Port Darwin, Schultz ; 



Escape CUfEs, Hulse ; Between Norman and Gilbert Rivers, GuUiver. 



7. E. festucacea, F. v. M. — Careening Bay, N.W. Coast, A. Cunningham ; 

 Upper Victoria and Fitzmaurice Rivers, F. v. Mueller. 



8. E. glauca, R. Br. — ^Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; 

 Victoria River and Sturt's Creek, F. v. Mueller. 



9. E. melicacea, F. v. M. — Upper Victoria River, F. v. Mueller. 



10. E. obtusa, R. Br.— Five-mile Bar, MacArthur River, G. F. Hill 

 (No. 734a), 28/1/1912. 



Northern Territory, Gilntth and Spencer, July- August, 1911. 



