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11. .27. Schultzii, Benth. — Port Darwin, Sohultz (No. 81). 



12. E. speciosa, Steud (E. Brownii).—-QO miles N.E. of Camp II., G. F. 

 HiU, 7/6/1911. 



Recorded. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 

 One of the best fodder grasses in the tropics. 



13. E. stenostachya, Steud (var. floribunda, Benth.). — ^Port Darwin, 

 Schultz (No. 802). 



14. E. teneUa, Bea/uv. — ^Upper Victoria and Fitzmaurice Rivers, F. v. 

 Mueller ; Gulf of Carpentaria, Landsborough, Gulliver. 



42. ECTROSIA, R. Br. 



All good pasture grasses. 



Panicle compact and dense, with short erect branches. 



Flowering glume 2 lines long, entire, awn short. — 4. E. Schultzii. 



Flowering glume 1 hne long, thin, notched, awn 1 hue. — 3. E. leporina. 



Panicle slender, loose, the short branches spreading. 



Flowering glume ^ line long. — 1. E. agrostoides. 



Flowering glume 1 hne. — 2. E. Gulliverii. 



1. E. agrostoides, Benth. — ^Port Essington, Armstrong. 



2. E. Gulliveri, F. v. M. — Between Norman and Gilbert Rivers, GuUiver. 



3. E^. leporina, R. Br. — Cullen Creek, and near Darwin, Gilruth and 

 Spencer, July-August, 1911. 



80 miles W. of Powell's Creek, G. F. Hill (No. 442), 6/7/1911. 



Recorded. Coen River, Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Cleveland Bay, 

 A. Cunningham ; Victoria River, F. v. Mueller ; Port Essington, Armstrong ; 

 Port Darwin, Schultz (No. 281) ; . between Norman and Gilbert Rivers, 

 Gulhver. 



4. E. Schultzii, Benth. — Cullen Creek and Providence Knoll, Gilruth and 

 Spencer, July- August, 1911. 



Five-mile Bar, MacArthur River, G. F. HiU (No. 700), 30/12/1911. 

 Recorded. Between Maurice and Victoria Rivers, F. v. Mueller ; Port 

 Darwin, Schultz (No. 287). 



43. HETERACHNE, Benth. 



Spikelets ovate, 2| to 3 J hnes long, with more than six upper empty glumes, 

 in one or two heads, sessile in the leaf -sheaths or the upper one shortly pedun- 

 culate. — 1. H. Brownii. 



Spikelets orbicular, scarcely 1| lines diameter, with less than six upper 

 empty glumes, in several globular small heads forming a pedunculate inter- 

 rupted spike. — 2. H. Gulhveri. 



1. H. Brownii, Benth. — Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; 

 Carron Creek, F. v. Mueller ; Port Darwin, Schultz, (No. 302). A good pasture 

 grass. 



2. H. Gulliveri, Benth. — Between Norman and Gilbert Rivers, Gulliver. 

 A good pasture grass. 



44. POA, Linn. 



1. P. Billardieri, Steud. — Cygnet Bay, N.W. Coast, A. Cunningham. 

 P. ramigera, F. v. M., recorded in National Herbarium Census from N. 

 Austraha. 



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