820 CYPERACE. [Carex. 
Chiefly distinguishable from C. Gaudichaudiana by the larger size, more 
numerous and much longer often stalked spikelets, and by the awn to the glume, 
although the last is a variable character. Mr. C. B. Clarke considers it to be a 
variety of C. Gaudichaudiana. 
20. C. ternaria, Forst. Prodr. n. 549.—Usually very tall and 
stout. Rhizome thick, stoloniferous. Culms robust, 14-4 ft. 
high, triquetrous with the angles very sharply scabrid, faces grooved 
and striate. Leaves numerous, equalling or exceeding the culms, 
broad, flat, grassy, grooved, 44in. broad; margins and midrib 
beneath sharply scabrid; sheathing scales at the base of the leaves 
with the margins transversely fibrillose. Spikelets numerous, 8-24. 
dark-brown, stout, long-stalked, pendulous, 1-4in, long; upper 
1-6 male, solitary or the lower geminate; the remainder female, 
usually with male flowers at the top, geminate or ternate or even 
quinate, the lowest on very long peduncles; bracts very long 
and leafy, overtopping the inflorescence. Glumes lanceolate to 
oblong-lanceolate or oblong-ovate, obtuse or retuse at the tip, with 
a stout hispid awn of very variable length but usually exceeding 
the utricles, dark-brown with a green keel. Utricle ovate, com- 
pressed, nerved, brownish, narrowed into a very short beak with an 
entire mouth. Styles 2. Nut broadly oblong.—Raouwl, Choix, 40 ; 
Hook. 7. Fl. Antarct. i. 89; Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 282; Handb. N.Z. Fi. 
314; Boott, Ill. Car. iv. tt. 596-598; Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
xvi. (1884) 431. C. geminata, Schkuhr, Riedgr. i. 65; A. Cunn. 
Precur. nu. 290. C. polystachya, A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 118, t. 21. 
Var. gracilis, Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi. (1884) 431.—Tall, slender. 
Leaves usually narrower, 4-4in. broad. Spikelets numerous, long, often over 
4in., slender, sometimes barely 4 in. diam. 
Var. pallida, Cheesem. l.c.—Stout. Leaves strict, rigid, often coriaceous. 
Spikelets fewer, short, pale, on long filiform peduncles. Utricles broader and 
more turgid, indistinctly nerved, sometimes with serrate margins. 
NortH AND SoutH IsLANDs, StEwART IsLAND, AUCKLAND ISLANDS, ANTI- 
popEs Istanp.—The typical form and var. gracilis abundant throughout, var. 
pallida not uncommon in the mountains of the South Island. Sea-level to 
4000 ft. November—February. 
Very distinct in its ordinary state, but small slender forms appear to 
run into C. subdola and into the following species. 
21. C. Sinclairii, Boott, MS. in. Herb. Kew.—Rhizome creeping, 
stoloniferous. Culms slender or rather stout, triquetrous, scabrid 
above, 6-18in. high. Leaves shorter or longer than the culms, 
flat, grassy, striate, ;-¢in. broad; margins scabrid; sheaths at 
the base not transversely fibrillose. Spikelets 4-6, erect or nearly 
so, short, stalked or the uppermost sessile, 4-14in. long; terminal 
1 or 2 male, very slender; remainder female, usually with a 
few male flowers at the top, solitary or the upper geminate, rarely 
compound at the base, the lower usually on longer peduncles. 
