824 CYPERACEZ. (Carex. 
different, being nearer to some states of C. testacea, the leaves are shorter and 
broader and more coriaceous, the spikelets are fewer in number and shorter and 
broader, the terminal male one being often clavate, and the utricles are con- 
spicuously nerved on both faces. 
27. C. lucida, Boott in Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 283.—Densely 
tufted, usually forming large tussocks. Culms very slender, leafy, 
smooth or slightly scabrid above, in the flowering stage 12-24 in. 
high and usually overtopped by the leaves, in fruit often but not 
invariably elongating and becoming prostrate, sometimes reaching 
a length of 4 or dit. or even no: Leaves numerous, spreading 
or drooping at the tips, narrow, ;4—4 in. broad, keeled; margins and 
keel sharply scabrid. Spikelets 4-8, narrow, erect, cylindric, 
4-2in. long, pale-brown to dark-brown ; upper 1-3 male, very 
slender, unequal in length, close together; remainder female but 
occasionally with a few male flowers below or rarely at the top, 
almost sessile or on peduncles of varying length, usually rather 
distant, the lowermost often remote and occasionally compound at 
the base; bracts very long and leafy. Glumes broadly ovate, acute 
or obtuse, rarely very shortly emarginate, cuspidate with a short 
hispid awn, pale or dark chestnut-brown with a pale keel. Utricle 
about as long as the glume, elliptic-ovoid, unequally biconvex, 
smooth or obscurely nerved on the rounded face, shining, from 
purplish- black to pale-brown; margins smooth; beak short, 
acutely bidentate. Styles 2. Nut broadly oblong, biconvex.— 
Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 314; Cheesem. im Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi. 
(1884) 432. C. flagellifera, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi. (1884) 342. 
NortH anp SoutH Istanps, Stewart Istanp: From the North Cape 
southwards, abundant. Sea-level to 3000 ft. October—January. 
A well-known species, easily distinguished by the slender culms, narrow 
keeled leaves, distant long and narrow spikelets, usually entire glumes, and 
turgid smooth and polished utricles. 
298. C. Buchanani, Berggr. in Journ. Bot. xviii. (1880) 104.— 
Densely tufted, usually reddish-purple, rarely whitish - green. 
Culms closely packed, slender, strict, erect, 1-2ft. high, quite 
smooth. Leaves equalling the culms or longer than them, narrow, 
strict, semiterete, grooved on the convex face, j,-;;in. broad; 
margins scabrid. Spikelets 4-6, linear-oblong, erect, cylindric, 
4-11 in. long, remote or the upper approximate, pale whitish- 
green; terminal 1 or rarely 2 male, very slender; remainder 
female, usually with a few male flowers below, sessile or the 
lowest shortly pedunculate; bracts long and leafy. Glumes longer 
than the utricles, broadly ovate with a long ‘hispid awn, pale, 
membranous; margins lacerate. Utricle elliptic, plano- convex, 
smooth or faintly nerved on the convex face, spotted with dark- 
purple; margins ciliate-serrate above; beak rather long, deeply 
