786 CYPERACEH. [Cladium. 
striate ; margins ciliate ; 2 or 3 outer empty. Stamens 3. Style- 
branches 8. Nut almost sessile, ovoid, trigonous, puberulous, pale- 
chestnut, narrowed upwards into a rather stout pyramidal beak. 
Nort Istanp: Auckland—Ohaeawai and Taheke, Berggren! Puhipuhi 
Forest, Kirk! Maungatapere, Carse ! September—November. 
Apparently a very local plant, not yet found outside the Bay of Islands and 
Whangarei Counties. 
3. C. articulatum, R&. Br. Prodr. 237.—Stems tall and stout, 
terete, transversely septate, 3-6 ft. high. Leaves long, almost 
equalling the stems, terete, the transverse septa usually very dis- 
tinct ; sheaths large and long, pale; tip subulate, acute, pungent. 
Panicle large, lax, terminal, much branched, drooping, 9-18 in. 
long; branches numerous, closely placed; bracts sheathing, the 
lowest with a terete septate lamina 4-14in. long. Spikelets ex- 
cessively numerous, rich red-brown, 4in. long, 2—4-flowered, but 
usually only one flower is fertile. Glumes 4-7, ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, membranous, puberulous, the 2 outer 
empty. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut broadly obovoid, 
trigonous with the angles thick and corky, red-brown ; beak short, 
umbonate.—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 276; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 304; 
Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 403. Baumea loculata, Boeck. in Linnea, 
xxxvili. (1874) 243. Gahnia articulata, F. Muell. Second Census 
Austral. Pl. 216. 
NortH Istanp: Margins of lakes and ponds from the North Cape to Taupo 
and Hawke’s Bay, not uncommon, Sea-level to 1800 ft. November— 
January. 
Also in Australia, New Caledonia, and the New Hebrides. Small states 
sometimes have the stems and leaves obscurely septate. 
4. C. glomeratum, &. Br. Prodr. 237.—Stolons creeping, 
clothed with pale striated scales. Stems tutted, terete and rush- 
like, slender, rather soit, 1-3 ft. high. Leaves few from the base 
of the stem, long, terete, with acute subulate tips. Panicle con- 
tracted, 3-10 in. long; lower branches distant, usually long and 
narrow, erect; upper closer together, shorter and broader ; primary 
bracts large and sheathing, almost spathaceous, reddish-brown. 
Spikelets numerous, fascicled, red-brown, 4—+in. long, ovate- 
oblong, 2-3-flowered, 1 or rarely 2 of the flowers fertile. Glumes 
usually 5, ovate, acuminate, membranous, striated; margins 
ciliate; 2-3 outer ones empty. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. 
Nut elliptic-oblong when mature, obtusely trigonous, smooth and 
polished, reddish or reddish-yellow; tip tumid, acute, pubescent.— 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 275; Fl. Tasm. ii. 94; Handb. N.Z. 
Fl. 304; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 404. Schcenus rubiginosus, 
Forst. Prodr. n. 493. Fuirena rubiginosa, Spreng. Fl. Hal. Mant. 
i. 29; A. Cunn. Precur. nu. 271; Raoul, Choix, 40. Baumea 
rubiginosa, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. (1874) 241. 
