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connective, rather abrupt at base ; filaments a little shorter than 

 anthers. Style long, scabrid, especially at base, 2-branched, 

 each branch with two very long fiexuous stigmata, sometimes 

 with an odd one, five in all. Nut transversely grooved within, 

 sub-spin Ue sbape, 3 lines long, obtusely ribbed, shining, red, 

 apex black and scaberulous, slightly produced and crowned with 

 the persistent base of style, when fully mature pendulous in long 

 hypogynous scales (or "filaments " of authors), which are 4-8, 

 bright-red, long and very narrow, much crumpled and twisted. 



Hab. Dry spots, margins of forests, Seventy-mile Bush, 

 County of Waipawa ; 1880-85 : W.C. 



Obs. I have known this plant for several years, but it was 

 only during tins summer (1885,) that I obtained perfect and 

 complete specimens ; this, however, was partly owing to my 

 not greatly caring to gather it for examination, believing it, from 

 its general appearance, to be one of the already- described 

 species. 



[See my note on this genus at the end of my descriptions of 

 these sp. nov.] 



2. G. parviflora, sp. nov. 



Plant forming small diffuse bushy tufts. Leaves very narrow, 

 almost linear, 3 lines wide, 3 ft. 6 in. long, with long filiform 

 tips, margins tbickened and recurved, upper part of leaf scabrid, 

 the lower smooth. Culms 2 ft. 6 in. to 2 ft. 9 in. long, 

 very leafy, cylindrical, smooth ; panicle 18-20 inches, slender, 

 open ; sub-panicles (6-7) 3-4 inches apart ; spikelets distant, 

 not crowded. Floral bract broadly ovate, corrugated, aristate, 

 arista short ; sub-panicle, stem sub-4-angled below, angles 

 rough, 3-angled above, compressed, scabrid. Spikelet broadly 

 obovate, sub 3 lines long, blackish ; glumes all large and 

 broad and nearly of equal size, oblong-ovate, acute, not acu- 

 minate, loosely concave, smooth, pubescent or roughish at tips, 

 the outer glumes largely corrugated, the outermost much shorter 

 than spikelet. Style long, black, thick at base, with short red 

 hairs ; stigmas 4, sub-fasciculate, long and branching from below 

 close to the forking of the style. Nut narrow ovoid, somewhat 

 turgid, 21 lines long, slightly grooved, whitish, tip brownish, 

 red and shining when mature and old, transversely rugulose 

 within, base of style persistent. ? Hypogynous scales (" fila- 

 ments " of authors), 8, very long and fine, much crumpled and 

 entangled, dark-red. 



Hub. Scattered among low bushes aud small scrubs, dry 

 hills, near the bridge over the Kiver Whakaruatapu, Seventy- 

 mile Bush, County of Waipawa ; 1881 : W.C. 



3. G. exigua, sp. nov. 



Plant rather small, slender, spreading, forming small sepa- 

 rate tufts. Leaves narrow, about 2 feet 6 inches long, striate 



