442 Tranmctions. — Botany. 



hyaline scale as long as the bract, 1 stamen with elongated 

 filament, and 1 carpel with protruding style. Carpels 

 1-ovuled. Capsule dehiscing loculicidally. Ccntrolepis mono- 

 fiyna, T. Kirk, Journal of Linn. Soc, xix. 286, not of 

 Bentham . 



Hah. South Island. In mountain-bogs, 3,000ft.-4,000ft. 

 Nelson : Mount Arthur Plateau ; Owen Mountains, Wairau 

 Gorge, T. F. Cliccseman. Canterbury : Arthur's Pass, kc, T. 

 Kirk. Otago : Mountains above Lake Harris, Longwood 

 Eange, T. Kirlc. Stewart Island, T. Kirk. Descends to the 

 sea-level in Stewart Island. 



Varying greatly in luxuriance and in the length of the 

 peduncles. The lower bract is articulated with the peduncle, 

 and the upper with a short pedicel which is also articulated 

 with the peduncle ; upper bract with broad membranous 

 margins. Capsule dehiscing longitudinally. 



I formerly referred this to C. monogyna, Bentham, but the 

 lowest flower is invariably perfect and the seed narrower than 

 in that minute species. The occasional occurrence of two 

 carpels in the same flower proves the accuracy of Bentham's 

 judgment in removing C. monogyna from Ajjlielia, in which 

 it had been placed by Hieronymus on account of its having a 

 solitary carpel. 



It should have been stated that in some specimens the 

 hairs on the sheaths are somewhat dense, the stems appearing 

 villous at the first glance. 



Var. p, ligidata. 



More slender than the typical form. Leaves ^in.— |in. 

 long, spreading, filiform, obtuse or sub-acute, with larger 

 sheaths, which are marginate, the upper portion of the margin 

 forming a kind of ligule. 



Hah. Stew^art Island, near Fraser Peaks. 



C. strigosa, Kein and Schulter, Syst. Veg., i., 43. Hieron., 



Central, 101. Benth., Fl. Aust., vii., 207. F. Mueller, 



Key to Vict., pi. i., 449. 

 , Hah. South Island : The Blufe Hill, T. Kirk. 



A tufted annual, iin.-2in. high. Leaves all radical, 

 linear or almost filiform, shorter than the naked scapes, with 

 few rigid hairs. Floral bracts close together, broadly-ovate, 

 strongly ribbed, hispid except the short glabrous spreading 

 points. Flowers 3-5 in each flower with 3 hyaline scales, 

 laciniate at the tips, the largest nearly equalling the outer 

 bract, the others shorter. Carpels 3-8 in each ovary. Styles 

 free. 



The outer bract of each scape contains the largest number 

 of flowers, and the basal flower in each bract contains the 

 largest number of carpels. 



