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below, scabrid, margined, excessively long filiform at tips. 

 Culms 3 feet long, slender, leafy ; stem-leaves very long, droop- 

 ing, narrow and filiform at tips. Panicle very slender, 2 feet to 

 2 feet 6 inches long ; sub-panicles distant. Floral bract narrow, 

 excessively acuminate, 13-14 lines long, (of which the filiform 

 beak is more than half,) slightly roughish, light-brown. Spikelet 

 very slender, 2\ lines long, narrow, obovate-lanceolate, with 

 sbarp tips of outer glumes extending beyond, dark-brown ; pedi- 

 cels filiform, scabrid, rigid, 2-4 lines long; 4 outer glumes 

 very acuminate and decreasing gradually in size, 1 -nerved, 

 minutely scabrid on nerve at back and on margins (especially 

 the two outer), red-brown ; 3 inner small, obtuse, apiculate, 

 smooth, white below, reddish and finely scaberulous at tips. 

 Stamens : anthers 4, subulate ; connective long, acuminate, 

 acute, entire, minutely and distantly roughish under a lens, base 

 sub-sagittate ; filaments shorter than anthers. ? Hypogynous 

 scales (" filaments " of authors) 6-8, very long, fine, crumpled 

 and twisted, reddish-brown, filiform below, broader, flat, 1- 

 nerved, and obtuse at tips. Style rather Ion?, slightly rough, 

 thicker and pubescent at base, pale red-brown. Stigmas 3 

 (rarely 4), long, sub-fasciculate, roughish, dark-brown. Nut (im- 

 mature) minutely puberulous at tip ; ripe, 24- lines long, broadly 

 lanceolate, shining, grooved, and obtusely angled, red with a 

 black spot at tip, ba?e of style persistent, transversely grooved 

 within. 



Hab. Among shrubs, etc., on dry spurs of hills near Mata- 

 mau, County of Waipawa ; 1882: W.C. 



4. G. multiglumis, sp. nov. 



Plant forming medium size tufts ; leaves and culms of equal 

 length, about 5 feet long, spreading, drooping. Leaves pale- 

 green, narrow, almost linear, 4 lines wide at broadest, upper por- 

 tion and tips excessively narrow, almostfiliform, mai'gined, slightly 

 scaberulous below, more so above ; culms leafy, straw-coloured. 

 Panicle 3 feet long, slender, graceful, secund, compound, with 

 about twelve compound (3-brancbed) drooping sub-pauicles, 

 the lower ones being 3-4 inches apart; floral bract dark-brown, 

 appressed, enclosing 2 spikelets, small, very acuminate, arista 

 extending length of spikelet ; peduncle and pedicels flat, narrow, 

 rigid, slightly scaberulous at edges, straw-coloured ; pedicel 

 length of spikelet ; spikelet dark reddish-brown, broadly obovate, 

 turgid, sub 3 lines long, possessing 9 scales, all shorter tban 

 spikelet or (immature) nut, 1 -nerved, minutely and closely 

 pubescent at tips ; the 3 outer very small, half the length of 

 spikelet, narrow, ovate, acuminate, tips sharp, diverging ; the 8 

 next broadly ovate, acute, transversely wrinkled ; the 7th scale 

 is the largest, broadly oblong, apiculate, much concave and over- 

 lapping at base ; the 8th oblong ; the 9th (and terminal) narrow* 



