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male, and more compact. Glume persistent, ovate, sub-acute, 

 nearly as long as utricle, whitish, smooth, 1-nerved; nerve 

 stout, greenish. Utricle lanceolate, stoutish, 2| lines long, 

 sub-half-terete, scabrid towards top, whitish ; bristle erect, 2 

 lines long, white ; hook 1 line long, brownish, thick and dark 

 at bend, tip excurved, sub-acute. Style long, stigmas 3, very 

 long, flexuous, and (with style) roughish. 



Hab. In dry woods with preceding species, U. capillaris, 

 Col.; 1887: W.G. 



3. U. variegata, sp. nov. 



Plant forming fine medium tufts. Culms 18 inches long, 

 erect, rather stout, sub-rigid, smooth, pale green, finely striate 

 with white lines, triquetrous, angles very obtuse, with one side 

 broader and flat and two sides deeply channelled. Leaves 

 longer than culms, 2 feet long, 2 lines broad, green, many- 

 nerved, striate, sub-flaccid, keeled, keel white, minutely scabe- 

 rulous on keel and margins. Spikelet cylindrical, stout, thickly 

 set with flowers, sub-sexfariously disposed and closely imbri- 

 cated by its long glumes concealing the utricles, 4 inches long, 

 4-5 lines broad, brownish variegated with green lines from 

 glumes and bristles ; the upper portion male, ^--f inch long, 

 narrow, cylindrical, very compact. Bracts at base, 2, nearly 

 close together and opposite, scabrid ; one very long, foliaceous, 

 flaccid and spreading, 9 inches long ; and one much smaller, 

 the length of spikelet, setaceous, erect, adpressed to spikelet ; 

 tips obtuse, sub-clavate. Glumes of female large, 4-^ lines long, 

 ^th inch wide, lanceolate, sub-acute, nearly covering both 

 utricle and bristle, pale light-brown ; 3-nerved (obsoletely 5- 

 nerved at base), central nerve wide but not prominent, green, 

 reticulated ; cells long, narrow. Glumes of male very similar, 

 but a little shorter. Utricle broadly ovate-acuminate (or sub- 

 rhomboidal) tapering a little at base, 2 lines long, dark-reddish- 

 brown, smooth, glossy, turgid; bristle slender, 2-2J lines long, 

 erect, green ; hook brown. Seed broadly-oblong, smooth, 

 shining, sub-triangular, flattish and slightly concave on one 

 side, edges obtuse, even, not raised or margined. Style very 

 short, sub J^th inch, rough ; stigmas 3, very long (2 lines), 

 spreading, flexuous, rough and shaggy with broad flat patent 

 hairs. Anthers linear, sub-acute, scarcely appearing from 

 within glumes ; filaments short. 



Hob. Sides of streams in forests near Danneverke, County 

 ofWaipawa; 1887: W.G. 



Obs. A species having pretty close affinity with U. australis, 

 Per soon, and U. ferruginea, Boott ; and also with U. alope* 

 cur aides* Col. ; differing, however, from them all in several im- 

 portant characters (vide descript.). 



* " Trans. N.Z. Inst.," vol. xv., p. 335. 



