832 CYPERACEA. (Carex. 
Styles 3. Nut ovoid, trigonous.—Boott, Ill. Car. i. 61, t. 175; C. 
Neesiana, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 316; Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. 
Inst. xvi. (1884) 438 (not of Endl.). 
NortH anp SoutH Isnanps, Stewart Istanp: Not uncommon from 
Ahipara and Mongonui southwards, usually in woods. Sea-level to 2000 ft. 
October—January. 
Allied to C. dissita, from which it differs in the taller and more slender 
habit, in the male spikelets usually more than one, and in the longer and 
narrower female spikelets, the 2 or 3 lower of which are often compound. The 
utricles are also rather smaller, and less conspicuously nerved than in C. dissita. 
In my Revision of the New Zealand species I followed Sir J. D. Hooker in 
uniting it with the Norfolk Island C. Neesiana ; but since then I have obtained 
specimens of that species, and find it to differ so much in leaves, spikelets, and 
utricles that I can entertain no doubt as to the distinctness of the two plants. 
42. C. ventosa, C. B. Clarke MS. in Herb. Kew.—Tall, stout, 
robust, leaves broad. Inflorescence 12-14in. long. Spikelets 8, 
2-3 in. long, pale; terminal 2-3 male, slender; remainder all 
female, short-peduncled, erect, not pendulous. Ubtricles elliptic- 
oblong, trigonous, narrowed at both ends, stramineous, 12-nerved, 
glabrous ; beak very short. Nut blackish, elliptic-oblong, trigonous. 
CHATHAM IsLanps (?): Travers in Herb. Kew. 
This is quite unknown to me, and the above brief diagnosis has been 
framed from notes kindly supplied by Mr. C. B. Clarke, who remarks that it is 
nearest to the true C. Neesiana (of Norfolk Island), but differs in the larger and 
narrower utricles. 
43. C. longiculmis, Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv. (1882) 363. 
—Tall, densely tufted. Culms terete or nearly so, smooth, 2-3 it. 
high or more, leafy at the base. Leaves shorter than the culms or 
equalling them, pale-green, sheathing at the base, 4—1in. broad, 
flat or keeled, striate; margins slightly scabrid above. Spikelets 
5-7, the lowermost usually distant, the remainder approximate ; 
terminal one male, slender, 1-2 in. long, sometimes with a smaller 
one near its base; remainder all female, usually with a few male 
flowers at the base, rarely at the top, very large and stout, 2-14 in. 
long, +-4in. broad, pale-brown, sessile or the lowest shortly 
peduncled ; bracts leafy, far exceeding the inflorescence. Glumes 
broadly ovate, membranous, pale chestnut-brown, midrib produced 
into a stout hispid awn. Utricle equalling the glumes, somewhat 
Stipitate, ovoid, biconvex, nerved, pale- or dark-brown, suddenly 
contracted into a rather long and stout bidentate beak; margins 
smooth. Styles 3. Nut trigonous.—Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. - 
Xvi. (1884) 438. 
Stewart Istanp: Paterson’s Inlet, Petrie! G. M. Thomson! Glory Cove, 
Kirk ! 
A very distinct species, perhaps nearest to C. litorosa, but much larger in 
all its parts. 
