390 MR. C. B. CLARKE ON 
culmis elongatis, tenuibus ; foliis longissimis, planis; spica lineari, 
tenui; utriculis anguste lanceolatis, superne minute scabro-pilo- 
sis, quam bracte: parum longioribus ; seta quam utriculus duplo 
longiore; nuce anguste oblonga.— Hook. f. Handb. New Zeal. 
Fi. 309; Back.in Linnea, xli. p. 344.—U. distans et U. scabra, 
Boott in Hook. f. Fl. New Zeal. i. pp. 285, 286.—U. australis, 
R. Br. Prodr. 241 (in Obs.) ; Spreng. Syst. iii. p. 829 (syn. excl.), 
non Pers.—Carex uncinata, Forst. Herb. partim, non n. 338, nec 
Linn. f. 
Culmi 5 dm., foliati, superne trigoni, scabri. Folia longa 3-4 
dm., lata 2-8 mm. Spice 5-10 cm. Bractex laxe imbricate aut in- 
feriores distantes, ime acute aut aristate aut nervo excurrente 
viridi spice equilongo, oblongo-lanceolate, dorso 1-nervie. Utri- 
culus longus 6 mm. Filamenta filiformia.—Culmi cum bracteis 
virides, rarius rubentes. A speciebus vicinis sequentibus ope 
utriculi scabro-pilosi (nec glabri) distinguenda. 
Nova-Zealandia, communis (Colenso, nn. 1642, 1705 ; Cheese- 
man, n. 172 &c.). 
2. U. TENUIS (Peppig; Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 535): culmis 
tenuibus, foliis longis, planis; spica lineari, demum tenui; bracteis 
basi saccatis ; utriculis oblongo-lanceolatis, glabris, quam bractee 
vix longioribus; seta quam utriculus duplo longiore.—Kunze, 
Syn. Riedgr. p. 88, t. 21; Desv. in Gay, Chile, vi. p. 232, tab. 72. 
fig. 4. 
Culmi 2-3 dm., foliati, superne trigoni scabri. Folia culmo 
paullo breviora,lata 14-2 mm., subtus in lamina modo scabra, 
modo levia. Spice 5-8 em. Bractez laxe imbricate, inferiores 
vix remote, elliptic, acute, pallide, nervo viridi, subacute aut 
aristatz, ima spe foliacea bractea parum brevior; basi circum- 
seisse dehiscentes, rhachille alis eyathiformiter relictis. Utri- 
culus longus 3mm. Filamenta filiformia. 
Chili (Peppig, &c.). Fretum Magellan ( LecMer, n. 1284, &c.). 
3. U. RUBRA (Boott! in Hook. f. Fl. New Zeal. i. p. 287, 
t. 64 A): rubens, culmis rigidis, foliis canaliculato-complicatis ; 
spiea rigida, lineari ; utriculis oblongo-lanceolatis, glabris, quam 
bractee parum longioribus; seta quam utriculus subduplo lon- 
giore.— Hook. f. Handb. New Zeal. Fl. 310. 
Culmi 14-24 dm., stricti, basin versus plurifoliati, superne 
trigoni, seabri. Folia eulmo sepius multo breviora, rigida, con- 
voluta, scabra. Spice 5 em.  Bractes laxe imbricatze, inferiores 
