Order GRAMINE/E. 
Genus Deyeuxia 
Sub-Order Agrostide/e. 
Genus XIV., 2.—DEYEUXIA, Clarion. 
Spikelets pedicelled, i-flowered, panicled or spike-like, the rachis of the spikelet articulates above the 
2 empty persistent glumes. Flowering glume membranous, with a fine dorsal awn, which is usually 
bent and twisted, sometimes minute, rarely wanting, tufted at base with silky hairs, and with a long 
pencil of hair proceeding from the terminal rachis. Palea membranous, half or nearly as long as the 
flowering glume. Grain enclosed in the glume and palea, free, or partially adhering. Distribution 
of Genus: TROPICAL AND TEMPERATE REGIONS OF BOTH HEMISPHERES. 
Etymology: Name in honour of M. Deyeux, a French chemist. 
DEYEUXIA SCABRA, Benth. 
AUSTRALIAN BENT GRASS. 
{Plate XXVI ., 2.) 
Agrostis scabra, R. Br. Prod., 172. Hook, til., FI. Tas., II., 11 6 , t. 160. 
Agrostis rudis, Roem. and Schult. Syst., II., 360. 
Calamagrostis rudis, Steud. Syn. Glum., I., 192. 
A contracta, F. Muell., Herb. Hook, fib, l.c., t. 161. 
A decipiens, R. Br. Prod., 172. 
Cinna decipiens, Kunth. Enum., I., 207. 
Deyeuxia scabra, Benth. FI. Austral., VII., 583. 
A tall, tufted, soft-leaved grass, found at 1500 feet altitude. Flowers December—January. Perennial. 
Culms 1—2 feet long, smooth, weak, and decumbent at the base. Leaves smooth, flat, striated, flaccid, 
narrow, much shorter than the culms ; sheaths striated ; ligule short, truncate. Panicle 2—8 inches 
long, much contracted, the short capillary branches scattered, or in distant whorls of two or four. 
Spikelets shining, pale-straw colour. Empty glumes 3-nerved, lateral nerves very short. Flowering 
glume sharply bifid at the top, and with a central short dorsal awn, scabridous, 5-nerved. Palea nearly 
as long as the glume, trifid at the top. Rachis produced into a long pencil of hairs, and a circle of 
hairs round the base of the flowering glume. Scale narrow, acute. Anthers long. Ovary pubescent 
