180 MISS Г. S. GIBBS: A CONTRIBUTION TO 
leaf-like slender bracts of the main rhachis which are filiform above ; bracts 
on branches and branchlets chestnut-brown like the spikelets, forming a 
closed tubular sheath below and prolonged at the acute apex to an awn. 
Spikelet barely 5 mm. long, the outermost glume equal to it in length, the 
second enveloping glume slightly shorter and unawned ; two upper glumes 
short, the lower 1:5 mm. long, the upper slightly shorter ; anthers yellow 
with a conical point barely 2 mm, long, filaments ultimately elongating 
beyond the glumes. 
Hab. Nadarivatu, 2700, dry open hillsides. Fl. Sept. 613. Seemann, 673. 
Mr. C. B. Clarke, who saw Seemann's specimen in the Kew Herbarium, 
suggested its affinity with (7. javanica but rejected the specimen as too young 
for naming. It seems however to be quite a distinct species, characterized 
by the thin panicle with very slender branches and the few (4) glumes below 
each flower. It resembles G. javanica in having a diandrous flower. 
CAREX GRAEFFEANA, Boeck. in Flora, lviii. (1875) 123. 
Mt. Victoria, 4000, near the summit, moss forest. Fl. Sept. 796. 
Distrib. Fiji (Viti Levu, Ovalau). Samoa. 
This plant was collected by Graeffe (Herb. Kew.) in Ovalau in 1862. It 
has not since been recorded for Fiji, nor is it given by Drake del Castello 
for Polynesia, though Whitmee (Herb. Kew.) subsequently found it in Samoa. 
’AREX DIETRICHIx, Boeck, in Flora, lviii. (1875) 122. 
Nadarivatu, 2700, in forest. Fl. Sept. 612. 
Distrib, Fiji (Ovalau, Ngau), New Caledonia, Х.Е. Australia, Solomon 
Islands. 
The above species was collected by Milne (H.M.S. * Herald ' in 1854 
(Herb. Kew.), but has not been recorded since. 
CAREX GIBBSIÆ, Rendle, sp. nov. 
Herba e rhizomate perennis tripedalis, caule trigono tenue glabro simplici 
basi foliato, foliis caulinis spicas fasciculatas subtendentibus ; foliis basalibus 
e vagina brevi læte brunnea elongatis linearibus inferne complicatis superne 
in apicem filiformem attenuatis rigidulis glabris, margine minute serrulatis, 
caulinis similibus e vagina inaperta tubulosa planis; spicis androgynis ad 
caulis nodos numerosis fasciculatis in pedicellis elongatis filiformibus e bracteæ 
foliaceæ vagina exsertis, parte superiore maseula anguste cylindrica, bracteis 
castaneo-brunneis lanceolatis breviter aristatis, parte inferiore foeminea tenue 
laxa, braeteis membranaceis obovatis dorso supra medium et arista brevi 
scabridula, quam flores breviter pedicellati duplo brevioribus ; utriculo trigono, 
angulis leviter scabridulis, longe rostrato, apice bicuspidato ; stylo terminali 
basin versus inerassato superne trifido: caryopsi immatura trigono-ellipsoidea, 
brunnea. 
