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Trinzr FESTUCEA, 
ERAGROSTIS, Beauv. 
; times Ail 
nD earing setaceous in drying, the lower ones and somet 
clothed with longish hairs 1 to 2 in. long. Panicles 3 to 6 i 
the branches divaricate, rather short. Spikelets pedicellate, scattered, 
dark-purplish, about 3 or 4 lines long and not 3-line broad, 
ustralis, 2. Br. Of this species there are at least four pretty 
i ith in Queensland, and it 1s © 
ey we 
the four forms may be briefly distinguished thus :— a 
1. A. AUSTRALIS, normal form. Tall tree with slender trunk, 
bases of old stipes more or less persistent on the upper giiie an 2 
crown stipes and rhachis densely clothed with long linear-lanceolalé 
and setaceous scales of a brown colour; pinnules 2 or 3 in. long. 
Hab.: The more southern parts of Queensland. 
2. A. A. van. cevicazis, Bail. This forms a trunk of 6 or per 
feet_ high, rather slender, say about 4 in. diameter, and mos 
he normal plant 
stipes and rhachis slightly muricat 
no large scales; under surface of 
al form, 
: 
Hab.: Johnstone River. Trees growing in bush-house, Bowen Park. 
3. A.A. EXCELSA (A, excelsa, R.Br.) A tall tree with stout trunk 
the bases of the stipes either persistent or falling free away 42° 
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