836 CYPERACES. (Carex. 
A very distinct species, easily recognised by the long and very slender red- 
brown spikelets, narrow entire glumes, and fusiform strongly ribbed long-beaked 
utricles. 
50. C. Cockayniana, Kukenthal, MS.—Culms slender, trigon- 
ous, smooth or slightly scabrid, leafy, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves usually 
longer than the culms, 4-4 in. broad, flat, striate; margins scabrid 
above. Spikelets 5-8, 14-3in. long, about +in. broad, usually 
remote but sometimes the upper approximate, bright red-brown or 
pale-brown ; terminal one male, generally with female flowers at 
the top, which sometimes occupy quite one-half the spikelet ; 
remainder all female, usually with male flowers at the base, all on 
filiform peduncles and nodding, or the upper almost sessile and 
erect ; bracts long, leafy. Glumes ovate - lanceolate, entire or 
emarginate, membranous, red-brown; keel greenish, produced into 
a short awn. Utricles equalling the glumes or rather shorter than 
them, spreading when ripe, stipitate, narrow-elliptic, trigonous, 
strongly costate-nerved, pale yellow-brown, narrowed into a short 
stout minutely 2-toothed beak. Styles 3. Nut trigonous.—C. cin- 
namomea, Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv. (1882) 301 (not of 
Olney). C. Forsteri, Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi. (1884) 440 
(in part). 
SourH Isnanp: Nelson—Graham River; sources of the Takaka River, 
T. F. C.; Mount Kelvin (near Westport), Townson! Westland—Kelly’s Hill, 
Petrie! Cockayne! Otago—Clinton Valley, Petrie! 500-4000 ft. No- 
vember—January. 
This differs from C. vaccilans in the stouter habit, broader leaves, thicker 
spikelets, and broader and shorter utricles, which want the slender deeply bifid 
beak of that species. 
51. C. semi-Forsteri, C. B. Clarke MS. in Herb. Kew.—Culms 
tufted, stout or slender, trigonous, slightly scabrid above, 1-3 ft. 
high. Leaves longer or shorter than the culms, broad, 4—+4in. 
diam. or even more, flat, striate, often with a stout nerve on each 
side of the midrib; margins and midrib beneath sharply scabrid. 
Spikelets 5-9, distant or the upper 2-3 somewhat approximate, 
1-3in. long, +-+in. broad, greenish or greenish-brown ; terminal 
one male at the base with the upper half or sometimes three- 
quarters female; remainder all female, but usually with a few male 
flowers at the base, the uppermost subsessile, the rest pedunculate, 
the peduncle of the lowermost sometimes elongated ; bracts very 
long and leafy. Glumes ovate-lanceolate, membranous, pale- 
ferruginous or whitish-green; midrib pale, produced into a short 
or long serrulate awn. Utricles longer or shorter than the glumes, 
spreading when ripe, elliptic-lanceolate, trigonous, nerved, greenish 
or greenish-brown ; beak 4—? as long as the utricle, with 2 linear 
acute teeth. Styles 3. Nut obovoid-oblong, trigonous. —C. 
Forsteri, Boott, Ill. Car. t. 187 (not of Wahi.). 
