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long and narrow, the floral leaves or bracts short and subulate, or the 
lowest long and leaf-like. Spikelets 3 to 6, all rather distant, erect 
and sessile, or the lowest shortly pedunculate, the terminal one male, 
midrib. Utricle 
much flattened, with nerve-like margins, ovate or elliptical, about 13 
lines long, shortly stipitate and contracted into a very short truncate . 
or scarcely 2-toothed beak, with 3 or 4 prominent nerves on each face. 
Style-bracts 2. Nut flat, nearly orbicular, much shorter than the 
utricle.—Benth. 1c. 
Hab.: Stanthorpe. This species should probably be better placed as a form 
seems principally to differ 
of C. vulgaris, from the Queensland form of which it 
in its pale-coloured glumes and scabrous stems. 
Order GRAMINEA. 
Trrn—E PANICEA, 
PENNISETUM, Rich. 
x, arnhemicum, 7. v. W., Fragm. viii. 109; Fl. Austr. vii. 496. 
Stems erect. Leaves narrow, rather rigid, glabrous and glaucous, the 
ligula very short, split into cilia. Spike rather dense, about 4 in. long, 
oe woolly from the plumose bristles. Involucres almost sessile, 
r¢) to u . ° 
densely Woolly-plumose with long soft white hairs. Spikelets solitary, 
shortly pedicellate within the involucre, about 2 lines long, quite con- 
_ Cealed in the wool. Outer glume about one-third the length of the 
spikelet, 2nd and 3rd glumes nearly equal, both empty and about 
"herved. Fruiting glume shorter, hard, smooth, and shining. Style 
Separate to the base or nearly so.— Benth. l.c. 
ab.: Fra t i £ what to belong to the above grass were 
Taenehe to me ms tg ituene aes ty ae pe Mr. Bod . C. Wildash, September, 
a“ 
Tre MAYDE®. 
CHIONACHNE, R. Br. 
Ns Sclerachne (n. sp.) Stems erect, slender, and leafy, from a 
‘co more or less woolly base, 1 ft. or more high. ‘Leaves erect, the 
yal 
long 
«+3 Lloyd Bay, Cape York Peninsula. The specimens from which the above 
8 given were Sicnited from T, A, Gulliver, April, 1886. It is but a poor 
© Wity grass, but horses arc said to be fond of it. 
