Petrie. — On Neiv Native Plants. 405 



European moss; and Dr. Hampe, in his latest publication (in 

 F. v. Mueller's Frag. Ptryt. Austr., 1880, xi., p. 49), also 

 dopts this view. 



EXPLANATION OP PLATE XXVIII. 

 Blindia tcnuifolia, H. f. and W. 



From Mount Thompson plant : 



2. Leaf, x 32. 



3. Comal leaf seen sideways, x 32. 



4. Alar cells, x 270. 



5. Cells of leaf, x 270. 

 From Tasmanian plant : 



6. Perichretial leaf, x 32. 



7. Capsule, x 32. 



8. Capsule old and dry, x 32. 



Art. L. — Descriptions of Neiv Native Plants. 



By D. Petrie, M.A., F.L.S. 

 [Read before the Otago Institute, 9th October, 1894.] 



1. Car ex hectori, sp. no v. 



A densely-tufted grassy species, about 3in. high. Leaves 

 green, erect and rigid, -^in. broad, striate, concave above, 

 convex below, not keeled, strongly serrate, with rather obtuse 

 tips. 



Culms shorter than the leaves ; spikelets 3 or 4, crowded, 

 sessile, uppermost male only, the rest female ; bracts long and 

 leafy. 



Glumes broadly lanceolate, acuminate, not bifid, brown with 

 pale (nearly white) midribs, almost as long as the utricles. 



Utricles subtriquetrous, fusiform, iin. long, dark-brown, 

 many - nerved, two prominent opposite greenish wing-like 

 nerves being confluent with the slender bifid serrate beak. 



Style long, three-branched. 



Hab. Old Man Eange (4,800ft.). 



This species is somewhat closely allied to C. uncifolia, 

 Cheeseman, and less closely to C. decurtata of the same 

 author. From C. uncifolia it differs in its shorter grassy 

 rather rigid leaves, its tufted habit, and in the shape of 

 the utricles, which are much longer, taper above and below, 

 and end in a much longer slender serrate bifid beak. The 

 style of G. uncifolia is very short, and the undivided part 

 hardly projects beyond the utricle. In the present plant the 

 style is as long as the utricle, and the undivided part equals 



