‘Cladium. | CYPERACEA. 785 
** Spikelets 1- or rarely 2-flowered, never more than 
one flower perfecting fruit. 
Stems and leaves slender, terete. Panicle 2-6in. long, 
stiff, dense; bracts small. Nut small, oblong-orbicular 6. C. teretifoliwm. 
Stems very slender, terete. Leaf solitary and long, or 
reduced to sheathing scales. Panicle 6-18 in. long, 
slender. Nut ovoid, smooth; tip large, tumid 7. C. Gunnit. 
Stems terete. Leaves reduced to sheathing scales, 
Panicle short, $-1din. long. Nut obtusely trigonous, 
tip small, puberulous ee = Ae .. 8. C. junceum. 
Stems stout, tetragonous. Leaves like the stems, short, 
often reduced to sheathing scales. Panicle contracted 
into a spike 4-4in. long. Hypogynous bristlespreseat.. 9. C. Vauthiera. 
Stems filiform. Leaves reduced to sheathing scales. 
Panicle short, 3-2in. long; spikelets 3-7. Nut witha 
persistent style-base as long as itself .. os .. 10. C. capillacewm. 
1. ©. Sinclairii, Hook. af Handb. N.Z. Fl. 305.—Stems tall, 
leafy, quite flat, smooth, 2-5it. high, in. diam., forming large 
clumps. Leaves 2-4 ft. long, distichous and equitant at the base, 
acuminate, quite flat. }-lin. broad, pale-green, smooth, striate : 
margins thin, even. Panicle large, terminal, nodding, excessively 
branched, 9-12 in, long or more; bracts sheathing, 2-edged ; 
branches drooping. Spikelets innumerable, rich dark red-brown, 
fascicled, in. long, 2—3-flowered, the lower flower usually alone 
fertile. Glumes usually 5, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or almost 
awned, minutely scabrid-pubescent, 2 or 3 outer empty. Hypo- 
gynous bristles wanting. Stamens 3, elongating after flower- 
ing. Style-branches 3. Nut small, red-brown, fusiform, trigonous, 
conspicuously narrowed at the base, and also upwards into a 
triquetrous minutely scabrid beak. C. gahnioides, Col. in Trans. 
Dem. 1st. XV. (1884) 340. Vincentia anceps, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
Gel. i. 276. YV. gladiata, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. (1874) 250. 
Norru IsnanpD: From the North Cape southwards to Taupo and Hawke’s 
Bay, not uncommon on cliffs, bank-sides, &c. Sea-level to 2000 ft. October— 
January. 
A handsome species, remarkable for the broad flat leaves. When out of 
flower it might easily be mistaken for an iridaceous plant. Mr. Colenso’s 
C. guhnioides is absolutely undistinguishable from the type. 
2. C. complanatum, Berggr. in Minnesk. Fisiog. Salisk. Lund. 
(1877) 23, t. 6, f. 1-5.—Stems tall, rather stout, compressed and 
2-edged, smooth, finely striate, 2-4 ft. high, tin. diam. at the base. 
Teas about the length of the stem, distichous and equitant at the 
base, narrow-ensiform, acuminate, flat or slightly convex, 4-4 in. 
broad, pale-green, smooth, striate; Margins even, not ‘scabrid. 
Panicle long and narrow, 6-12 in., much branched ; branches 
fascicled, erect; bracts sheathing, with ciliate margins. Spikelets 
numerous, chestnut-brown, 4—1in. long, ovate-oblong, 2—3- flowered, 
1 or 2 of the flowers fertile. Glumes usually 5, ovate, acuminate, 
