Carex. | CYPERACEA!. 837 
Kermapec Isnanps: 7. F. C., Miss Shakespear! NorrH anv Sour 
Istanps: Not uncommon throughout. Sea-level to 2000 ft. November- 
January. 
I have taken up this species from notes kindly supplied to me by Mr. C. B. 
Clarke. It has the habit and most of the characters of C. Forsteri, but the 
terminal spikelet is invariably largely female at the top, whereas it is wholly 
male in C. Forsteri. Small states approach C. Cockayniana, which often has 
the terminal spikelet partly female; but that species has the beak of the utricle 
much shorter, with two very obscure teeth. Mr. Colenso’s C. sexspicata (Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xvi. (1884) 342) may be the same species, and, if so, his name must 
take precedence. There are no specimens in his herbarium. 
52. C. Forsteri, Wahl. in Vet. Akad. Nya Handl. Stockh. (1803) 
154.—Culms tufted, stout or rather slender, trigonous, grooved, 
scabrid above, He te -3 ft. high. Leaves longer or shorter than 
the culms, broad, 1_Lin. diam., flat, harsh, striate ; margins and 
midrib beneath ae scabrid. Spikelets 5-10, distant, 14-3 in. 
long, +-—4in. broad, green or pale ferruginous : terminal 1-3 
(usually 2) male, slender ; remainder all female ee commonly with 
male flowers either above or below, the upper 2-3 sessile or nearly 
so, the rest pedunculate, sometimes compound; bracts very long 
and leafy. Glumes ovate - lanceolate, membranous, ferruginous 
with a pale-green centre; midrib stout, produced into a short or 
rather long awn. Utricles equalling or exceeding the glumes, 
spreading when ripe, almost sessile or very shortly stipitate, 
elliptic-oblong or lanceolate-oblong, trigonous, nerved; beak 4~2 
the length of the utricle, linear, with 2 lanceolate acute teeth. 
Styles 3. Nut obovoid-oblong, trigonous.—Boott in Hook. f. Fi. 
Nov. Zel. i. 285; Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 315 (in part) ; Cheesem. 
mm Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi. (1884) 440. C. recurva, Schkuhr. Riedgr. 
i. 120. OC. debilis, Forst. Prodr. n. 550. C. punctulata, A. Rich. 
Fl, Nowd. Zel. 119, +. 21. 
Nortu AND SourH IstAnps: Not uncommon from the Three Kings Islands 
and the North Cape southwards to Foveaux Strait. Sea-level to 2000ft. 
November—January. 
53. C. pseudo-cyperus, Linn. Sp. Plant. 978.—Culms tufted, 
stout, triquetrous, scabrid on the angles, leafy, 1-3 ft. high. 
Leaves often longer than the culms, flat, broad, grassy, 4-4in. 
diam.; margins scabrid. Spikelets 3-5, rarely more, usually 
clustered towards the top of the stem or the lowest one remote, 
1-24 in. long, pale-green; terminal one male, rarely female at the 
top, slender ; remainder all female, long-peduncled and nodding, or 
in small specimens subsessile and erect, dense-flowered ; bracts 
long, ieafy. Glumes small, oreenish-white, linear-oblong, suddenly 
narrowed into a stout serrulate awn. Utricles usually exceeding 
the glumes, spreading or even reflexed when aoe stipitate, ovate- 
SHE CTEM trigonous, somewhat inflated, strongly ribbed, greenish ; 
beak 4-4 as long as the utricle, deeply split at the apex into two 
