Tas. 6232, 
ARUNDO CONSPICUA. 
Native of New Zealand. 
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Nat. Ord, Gramites —Tribe ARUNDINER. — 
Genus AruNDO, Linn. (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 91.) 
ARUNDO conspicua; dense cespitosa, culmis cum foliis basi crassitie digitis, 
foliis effusis erecto-recurvis angustis crassis coriaceis concavis levibus mar- 
ginibus involutis scaberulis, apicibus longissimis scabridis, costa subtus 
valida, vaginis creberrime sulcatis, ligula e fasciculo pilorum tenuissimorum, 
culmis floriferis 3-8-pedalibus, panicula 1-2-pedali effusa copiose ramosa, 
ramis pendulis, spiculis % poll. longis pallide stramineis nitidis 1-3-floris, 
glumis vacuis equalibus longissime acuminatis, glumis floriferis in aristam 
gracillimam tortam spiculam xequantem attenuatis basi pilis sericeis elongatis 
instructis, palea oblonga glumis mulloties minore. 
A. conspicua, Forst. Prodr., n. 48; Willd. Sp. Pl., vol. i.. p. 456; Hook. f. Flor- 
Nov. Zel., vol. i., p. 299; Handbook of N. Zealand Flor., p. 331. 
A. australis, A, Rich Voy. “ Astrolabe,” yol. i., p. 121; 4. Cun. in Hook. Comp. 
Bot. Mag. vol. ii., p. 371. ; ( 
A. Richardi, Endl. 
A. Kakao, Steud, Synops. Glumac., vol. i., p. 134. 
CALAMAGROSTIS conspicua, Gmel. Syst., vol. i., p. 172; Kunth Enum. Plant., vol. 
i, p. 238. 
ACHNATHERUM conspicuum, Pal. Beauv. Essais, p. 20. 
GYNERIUM? zelanicum, Steud. /.c., p. 198. 
This, which is perhaps the most beautiful Grass known to 
me, is, though long ago introduced into England through 
Kew, now for the first time figured in any work. It was 
discovered by Banks and Solander during Cook’s first voyage, 
and gathered during his second voyage by Forster, who 
published it in his “ Florule insularum australiam Prodro- 
mus” in 1786. It abounds throughout the Island of New 
Zealand, from the Bay of Islands to Otago, and in the 
Chatham Islands, growing in wet places, but is found in no 
other part of the world. It is the Toe Toe and Kakaho of 
the natives, who use the culms for lining their houses with a 
kind of reed-matting. ‘a4 
Though long grown and increased, and a most ornamen 
plant for greenhouse and conservatory culture, holding its 
Mar Ist, 1876. 
