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Poa € Stapf; affinis P. papuane, Stapf, sed. foliis e. 
simis ad laminz basin callosis, valvis minus acuminatis 5-ner 
bus, paleis in carinis scaberulis quam valvis brevioribus distincta 
Gramen dense cespitosum. Culmi erecti, graciles, 5 poll. 
longi, sub panicula scaberuli, csterum leves, vix ad mediu 
dense vaginate internodiis summo excepto brevissimis are 
Folia ad basin dense congesta, flabellatim er pepe. 
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setacez, lateraliter compressa, canaliculatz, apice en 
et oblique acutate, 2 poll. long, rigide, erectze. Panicula 
paupera, linearis, 9— 10 lin. longa, stricta ; rami inferiores geminati, 
rhachi appresai, 2-1-spiculati, filiformes, scaberuli ; pedicelli 
ramis similes, crassiusculi, katerales circa 1 lin. longi. Spieule 
2-1-flor®, oblong&, fere 2 lin. longs, pallide. Glume oblongo- 
breviores, carinis asperulis. Zodiceule insequaliter 2-lobe. Anthere 
i lin. longs. 
Mount Scratchley, 12200 ft. 
Poa minimiflora, Stapf ; affinis P. epileuce, Stapf (Deyeuxiw 
epileucæ, Stapf), sed foliis tenuiter setaceis, paniculis up 
spiculis minoribus diversa. Icones Plantarum, t. 2608. 
Mount Seratehley, 12200 ft. 
Poa papuana, Stapf; affinis P. minimiflore, Stapf, sed foliis 
minus tenuibus rigidioribus scaberulis, spiculis paullo majoribus, 
valvis acute acuminatis quam palea levi paululo brevioribus 
diversa. Icones Pinte: t. 2607. 
Mount Scratchley, 12200 ft. 
Poa papuana, P. callosa, P. minimiflora and P. epileuca form 
a small natural group, the affinity of which lies evidently with 
Poa kerguelensis, Hook. f. and P. antarctica, Stapf (Triodia 
antaretica, Hook. ees = my paper on the flora of Kinabalu 
(Trans. Linn. Soc . iv., p. 247), I have pointed out that the 
grass which I then denied = Deyeuxia epileuca was “a very 
marked species the affinity of which lies rather with some 
Australian species (of Deyeuxia) than with any others, though it 
is far from being closely connected” and that “the spikelets 
come, perhaps, nearer to those of D. gunniana, Benth.” ; but I 
was then “still doubtful as to the true systematic position " of the 
grass (l.c. 105). The Menit of Poa papuana and P. minimi- 
Jlora has now given me the key to it in the dieoduam indicated 
above. This group of Pow is well marked off from the rest by the 
minute 1-2-flowered spikelets and e firmer texture of the glumes 
and valves and will probably have to stand as a section of Poa. 
Deyeuxia gunniana, Benth., and = closely allied D. ee 
