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Panicle, brownish-green, l^in.-4^in. long, contracted, ob- 

 long in outline, composed of 5-7 clusters of branches springing 

 alternately from opposite sides of the rachis, the branches 

 similarly divided into a short series of branchlets. 



Spikelets f^in. or less. 



Empty glumes almost equal, acute, glabrous, green or 

 green tinged with dark-brown, three-nerved, scabrid on the 

 keel. Flowering glume incurved at the edges, broad, trun- 

 cate, pale, with five distinct greenish nerves produced at the 

 apex into short teeth or points. Palea none. 



Hah. Euahine Mountains (west of Makaretu Bush), 

 5,000ft. ; Tararua Mountains (Buchanan) ! ; Mount Arnould 

 (Upper Hawea), 3,000ft.-4,000ft. The specimens from Mount 

 Arnould are much smaller in all their parts except the 

 spikelets than those from the mountains of the North Island, 

 but they evidently belong to the same species. 



7. Agrostis tenella, nov. sp. 



Culms not branched or tufted, capillary, wiry, erect, 

 smooth, 7in.-14in. high. 



Leaves much shorter than the culms, involute, setaceous, 

 the uppermost sheath not reaching to half the height of the 

 cuhn ; ligule oblong, truncate, lacerate. 



Panicle liin.-3in. long, spiciform, very slender, of few 

 short capillary branches. 



Spikelets j^in. in length. 



Empty glumes not spreading, very pale, shining, nearly 

 equal, acute, glabrous, slightly scabrid at the keel. Flower- 

 ing glume one-fifth shorter than the empty, hyaline, truncate, 

 five-nerved, the nerves delicate and produced to the apex, 

 where they usually project as minute teeth. 



Palea, none in my specimens. 



Hab. Macrae's, Waihemo County (Otago) ; 1,800ft. 



8. Triodia australis, nov. sp. 



A short, densely-tufted grass, with procumbent or ascend- 

 ing or erect culms. 



Culms leafy below, 2^in.-6in. loi)g, more or less branched 

 at the base. 



Leaves involute, almost filiform, deeply striate, as long as 

 the culms or shorter ; sheaths broad and deeply grooved ; 

 ligule represented by a band of fine hairs which form prominent 

 tufts at the sides. 



Panicle small, contracted, of six or fewer short branches 

 bearing 6-12 pale-green, two- or three-flowered spikelets, each 

 about ^\\\. long ; pedicels finely pubescent, slender, not longer 

 than the spikelets. 



Empty glumes slightly shorter than the spikelet, nearly 



