788 CYPERACE, [Cladwum. 
7. C. Gunnii, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 95, t. 1488.—Stems densely 
tufted, rush-like, very slender, terete, rigid and wiry, 9in. to 3 ft. 
high. Leaves sometimes wholly reduced to sheathing scales at the 
base of the stem, but usually 1 long terete stem-like leaf with 2-3 
sheaths below it; tip subulate, pungent; sheaths long, purplish-red. 
Panicle elongate, narrow, interrupted, 6-18in. long; branches 
remote, slender, erect, the lowest sometimes 6in. long in large 
specimens, in small ones reduced to lin.; bracts closely sheath- 
ing, with a short erect lamina. Spikelets not fascicled, distinct, 
sessile, 1-flowered. Glumes usually 3, lanceolate, acuminate, the 2 
Jowest empty; the uppermost fertile, longer and narrower than the 
others, and spreading in fruit; margins involute. Stamens 3. Style- 
branches 3. Nut pedicelled, ovoid or oblong-ovoid, smooth and 
shining when mature, 3-ribbed when young, tip large and tumid, 
pale-yellow with dark base and tip.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 304; Benth. 
Fl. Austral. vii. 407; Berggr. in Minnesk. Fisiog. Sallsk. Lund. 
(1877) 24, t. 6, f. 6-11. C. laxifiorum, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 98, 
t. 1484. Lampocarya tenax. Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 277. 
Nortu anp SoutH Isntanps, Stewart IstanpD: From the North Cape 
southwards, not uncommon. Sea-level to 2500 ft. December-February. 
Also in eastern Australia and Tasmania. In fruit the margins of the upper 
part of the flowering glume become strongly involute, firmly enclosing the 3 
persistent stamens, which remain attached to the pedicel of the ripe nut. The 
nut is thus frequently detained swinging from the spikelet long after it has 
separated from the point of attachment. 
8. C. junceum, £&. Br. Prodr. 237.—Rhizome stout. woody, 
creeping, clothed with pale-brown scales. Stems tufted, rigid, erect, 
terete, rush-like, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves reduced to 1 long and closely 
appressed sheath with a minute vertically flattened lamina, below 
which are 1 or 2 much shorter sheaths. Panicle short, spike-like, 
sparingly branched, 4-14 in. long; bract at the base very small. 
Spikelets red-brown, 4 in. long, 1-2-flowered, the lower flower alone 
fertile. Glumes 4-5, oblong-ovate, acute, membranous, keeled, 
puberulous, the 2 or 3 outer empty. Stamens 3. Style-branches 
3. Nut oblong-ovoid, obscurely trigonous, dark-brown, surface 
rough; beak small, tumid, puberulous.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 96 ; 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. 805; Benth. Fl. Austral. vu. 408. Lepidosperma 
striatum, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1. 279 (not of &. Br.). 1. Colensoi, 
Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviil. (1874) 328. 
Norru anp Sourn Isnanps: From the North Cape to the Bluff, not 
uncommon, especially in the North Island, often in brackish-water swamps. 
Sea-level to 2000 ft. November-January. 
Also throughout the greater part of Australia and in New Caledonia. 
9. GC. Vauthiera, C. B. Clarke, MS.—Rhizome short, stout, 
creeping. Stems densely tufted, rather stout, conspicuously 4- 
