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Kacemes rarely branched ; flowers crowded, very shortly pedicellate, 

 + 1 cm. long, strongly and sweetly scented ; calyx half as long as the 

 corolla. 5-lobed to the middle, lobes subulate ; corolla funnel-shaped, white, 

 tube narrow ; scales of the throat 5, limb cut into 5 short rounded spread- 

 ing lobes ; stamens reaching to the top of the corolla-tube ; anthers short, 

 small, almost sessile ; style slender, subcapitate, when full-grown a little 

 longer than the corolla-tube. 



Hab. — Slopes of Mount Sefton, between the Stocking and Huddleston 

 Glaciers, 5.000 ft. ; a high peak north of Stewart Glacier, Moorhouse Kange 

 (Mount Cook district). Flowers in February. 



Specimens of this plant have been kindly sent me by Mr. Peter Graham, 

 chief guide at the Hermitage. In recent years his careful observation has 

 brought to light quite a number of new alpines that hail from places difficult 

 of access to those who are not expert mountaineers. 



6. Carex Gibbsii sp. nov. 



Species C. Dallii T. Kirk affinis. 



Folia culmis multo breviora, omnino radicalia. Culmi gracillimi 

 + 50 cm. longi, teretes, reclinati. 



Inflorescentia terminalis, 4 cm. longa breviorve ; spiculae 3-4, arete 

 approximatae, sessiles, brevissimae ; terminali mascula, ceteris femineis ; 

 bracteis foliis similibus, brevibus inflorescentiam tamen excedentibus ; 

 glumae ovatae. subacutae. breviter mucronatae, utriculis maturis paulo 

 breviores. 



Utriculi anguste ovati, sub-plano-convexi, glaberrimi, 3 mm. longi, 

 .l|mm. lati, rostro bidentato valde brevi. 



A slender laxly tufted reddish-green plant, giving off rather long stolons 

 clothed with short reddish-brown striate scales. 



Culms very slender, leafy only at the base, 50 cm. long or less, terete, 

 smooth, slightly grooved, reclinate, reddish-brown. 



Leaves much shorter than the culms (+ 10 cm. long), spreading, shortly 

 sheathing, narrow - linear, concave when fresh, complicate When dried, 

 flaccid, striate below, 2-nerved above, midrib little conspicuous. 



Inflorescence 4 cm. long or less ; spikelets 3-4, closely approximate, 

 sessile, very short, dark reddish-brown ; terminal male, slender, the others 

 female ; bracts short and leaf -like, but exceeding the flowering-spike ; 

 glumes ovate, membranous, reddish-brown, subacute, 3-nerved, the nerves 

 confluent at the top and produced into a short mucro, slightly shorter than 

 the mature utricles. 



Utricles narrow-ovate, nearly plano-convex, nerveless or with 2 indis- 

 tinct lateral nerves, substipitate, yellowish below, purplish above, 3 mm. 

 long, 1| mm. broad ; beak very short, 2-toothed ; style deeply divided into 

 3 stigmatic branches. 



Hab. — Shallow open swampy flats at Cedar Creek, Waimangaroa River 

 (near Denniston), west Nelson, about 1,760 ft. 



This species differs from C. Dallii T. Kirk in the short inflorescence with 

 closely approximate small spikelets, the almost plano-convex utricles, and 

 the much longer, almost filiform, culms. The plants grew in perfectly open 

 ground, but only a few were in flower. It is named in honour of Mr. F. G. 

 Gibbs, of Nelson, who has done much excellent work in exploring the flora 

 of that district, and has been a most obliging and helpful correspondent. 



